The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 969

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Motolov returned to the hotel, he waited anxiously for news from home while paying close attention to the first European Union summit being held in Berlin.

After the outbreak of the Battle of Norway last year, the Third Reich, in order to fight against the British Empire, issued a call to form a European Union to consolidate Europe from a state of disunity, so as to exert stronger strength and avoid being provoked by foreign countries!

Because in the past hundreds of years, the British Empire has been pursuing a continental balance of power strategy on the European continent. They have constantly provoked wars between European countries, making Europe more and more divided, and the grievances and contradictions between countries have become deeper and deeper. They can act as an offshore balancer and easily extinguish potential challengers that may pose a threat to themselves without spending too much!

Moreover, since the rise of the British Empire’s navy, they have posed a very serious threat to European countries, especially those with coastlines, with their powerful navy far exceeding that of other countries in the world!

Before the rise of the Third Reich and the defeat of the British navy, European countries, even the once-powerful Napoleon Empire, could not stop the British invasion by sea. The French army once tried to challenge the British maritime hegemony, but suffered a disastrous defeat! The

Germans also tried during the Second Empire, but also failed.

Gaul and Germany can be said to be one of the most powerful countries in the European continent, especially in Western Europe. They failed to challenge the British navy with their strength, let alone other countries?

Therefore, all countries have no way to deal with the powerful navy of the British navy!

Since fighting alone is not an opponent, it has become a necessary choice for everyone to unite and keep warm.

Therefore, when the Third Reich issued this initiative, on the one hand, it was to fight against the British and prevent the British from using other European countries to consume the Third Reich.

Another purpose is to use war without fighting, and to complete the de facto rule of Europe at a lower cost!

Sun Tzu’s Art of War says: The best strategy is to attack the enemy’s plans, the next best is to attack their alliances, the next best is to attack their troops, and the worst is to attack their cities.

Attacking cities is the last option, and it is also the worst option!

It is not impossible for the Third Reich to send troops to pacify these countries, but doing so will definitely waste a lot of time and energy. Before the main enemy of the empire is resolved, it is obviously not worth the loss to spend energy and time on these small countries.

Moreover, military occupation does not mean that it is over. After completing the military occupation, a large number of troops need to be sent to maintain law and order, and a large number of officials need to be sent to maintain rule and restore and rebuild.

Each of these things takes time and wastes human resources. Although the Third Reich is strong, it is afraid that forcibly annexing the entire Europe will cause indigestion!

Moreover, the purpose of occupying here is just to obtain capital and markets from here, dump goods and take advantage of the other party’s cheap human resources.

To put it bluntly, these things are all for interests and benefits.

In this case, it is better to use peaceful means to incorporate these countries into its own governance system. In this way, it can directly reap benefits from them, and the empire does not need to pay too much price to achieve this goal.

Moreover, for these countries, it is also profitable to join the Third Reich, because the Third Reich is powerful. After joining the Third Reich, they will no longer have any worries. In this way, they can cut their military expenditures and invest the money in the economy and people’s livelihood.

Moreover, the more territory the Third Reich conquers, the larger the market of the Third Reich. Therefore, when trading with the Third Reich, they can sell more products and gain profits from the trade.

So this is a win-win situation. Therefore, whether it is for the purpose of fighting against the sun, choosing sides, or based on realistic interests, these European countries finally chose to join the European Union system tasted by the Third Reich! To be honest, the Third Reich has such a strong appeal, and the strong response of European countries to this European Union initiative is actually somewhat beyond the expectations of the bears.

As a big country spanning Europe and Asia, although most of their territory is located on the Asian side, their main population and main economy and industry are located in Europe, so the bears have always regarded themselves as European countries, and they are the kind of major European countries!

I dare not say anything else, but the Russian bears are still capable of controlling the small countries in Eastern Europe.

So after the Third Reich issued the European Union initiative, the Russian bears were lukewarm about it. They did not intend to actively respond to the Third Reich’s call, nor did they clearly express their opposition to joining the European Union. The

Russian bears are waiting for Europe to show goodwill with the mentality of waiting for the Third Reich to take the initiative to extend an olive branch.

In their view, as the main countries in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, if they do not join the European Union, then the European Union will be somewhat unworthy of its name, so if the Third Reich really wants to integrate the whole of Europe, it will inevitably invite them to join. However

, the Russian bears certainly have concerns about joining the European Union.

After all, the concept of the European Union was issued by the Third Reich, so they will definitely act as the leader of the European Union.

In this case, if the Russian bears join the European Union, what identity and status will they get in the alliance?

Is it the status of an ordinary member state like other countries, or is it the same as the Third Reich, the status of the leader of the European Union?

The former kind of Russians are certainly unwilling to accept this, because they believe that their strength is much stronger than that of ordinary European countries, so naturally they cannot be the same as these countries.

But the possibility of the latter option is too low. The Third Reich spent so much energy and effort to establish the European Union, not to pick peaches for the Russians, so the Russians will definitely not be able to obtain the same status as the Third Reich.

The Russians are of course clearly aware of this, so they are a little hesitant about whether to join the European Union.

However, although the Russians have not yet decided whether to join, they are particularly concerned about the affairs of the European Union, because everyone can see that as the most economically developed and industrially powerful continent in the world, once all European countries unite, what a terrible force it will be!