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Chapter 47 The Wind Rises

Chu Sinan made a very correct judgment on the direction of the political situation in the United States after Roosevelt's death..com As a president who took over power under unexpected circumstances, Truman's life was indeed very difficult.

During Roosevelt's administration, the large arms dealers in the United States and those chaebols who could gain huge benefits through war could be said to have made a lot of benefits. The military's uninterrupted national orders allowed these giants to make a lot of money. According to the underbox agreement reached between Roosevelt and all parties, once World War II ended, these guys who relied on war money to fill their pockets must be restrained, quickly transformed the numerous militarized industries, and turned the country's main energy and government orders to post-war recovery and reconstruction.

Some people say that the United States is the world's number one military power, and its military technology has always been far ahead in the world. At the same time, the American military industry is mainly in the hands of private enterprises. To put it bluntly, the reason why the American military power can reach such a prosperous level is completely inseparable from the foreign policy of its government. The situation in the United States is different from the Soviet Union. The Soviet military industry is completely in the hands of the country, and the state's fiscal appropriation directly reaches various arsenals and military scientific research institutions. In normal times, the production volume of these arsenals is not very large, and their most arduous operation period is in the wartime. What about the United States? On the contrary, the US side itself is not responsible for military production. The weapons and equipment they need are all bidding and ordering systems. In other words, the weapons needed by the US side must be paid by the state and purchased from the private hands.

Obviously, under the dominance of this system, the US's foreign policy and military trends are directly linked to the interests of some private people. The more frequent the US's foreign military operations and the more wars are fought, the more weapons and equipment it needs to be supplemented in the army. At the same time, the more business the military factories in the hands of private people have, the more money they can make. At the same time, in order to be able to emerge in bidding and procurement and avoid being eliminated by opponents in fierce competition, these private military enterprises attach great importance to the research and development of military technology, thus making assembly technology days such as aircraft, ships, armored vehicles.

With each passing day, the update speed is quite fast. Faced with such fierce competition, it is obvious that a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises will go bankrupt one after another, or be swallowed up by larger companies. In the long run, for a period of time, the number of military industrial groups in the United States will be less and less, but the scale will become larger and more concentrated. When this competition for survival of the fittest reaches a certain level, a super military monopoly will emerge, and a small number of corporate groups that survive the competition will dominate the business of most of the military supply in the United States.

To give a very simple and realistic example, the famous Morgan Consortium in the United States, some people once said sarcastically: the US Pacific Fleet is invincible, but they cannot withstand a "cold" by the Morgan Consortium. Once Morgan gives up his investment in the Pacific Fleet, forty percent of the fleet's ships will not be able to leave the port again.

The economic foundation determines the superstructure, and the existence of the superstructure serves the economic foundation. This is a very simple truth. It is also a universal truth. In the United States, when various private military-industrial consortiums finally appear before the world in a monopoly manner, these people who grasp a crucial part of the American state machine began to jump out and guide the direction of national policies. There is no doubt that for arms dealers, world peace is an absolute disaster. In the link of supply and demand, whether their goods can find a market depends directly on the existence of war.

In the early stage of World War II, the US government led by Roosevelt did not directly participate in the war, but provided a large amount of arms to various anti-fascist countries in the form of loans and even aid. Why is this? Because this country in North America is peaceful and even generous in order to reproduce the peace? This is obviously impossible. The Americans' foreign military aid, even the later direct participation in the war, was determined by their external interests and internal forces. Under the loan situation, military aid to other countries is naturally equivalent to selling the goods of the domestic large arms dealers, and the free aid part is to allow all taxpayers in the United States to pay for the services of these arms dealers.

Because of this, in the United States, especially in politics, rich people have power. From this point of view alone, the situation in the Soviet Union is also very different.  ̄In the Soviet Union, if a family similar to Morgan came out, then there would be only one ending for this family, that is, they would be completely defeated.

Truman took over Roosevelt's presidential scepter, but he was unable to integrate all the ruling elements around him in the short term. His coming to power also turned the secret agreement between Roosevelt and those hawkish forces into a pile of waste paper. As the original vice president, Truman naturally could not know Roosevelt's main policy focus in the early stage of the post-war period. According to the original agreement, after the war is over, the White House will convert its main energy to domestic construction.

In the end, the most important thing is to improve national welfare and alleviate domestic conflicts. Based on this, the United States' foreign policy will tend to be moderate and try to avoid hostility with the emerging Soviet countries centered on the Soviet Union. But now, he cannot continue to follow this correct path. The reality before him is very clear. If he, a president who became a monk, wants to sit in this position, he must cater to the preferences of those hawkish forces and get their support.

At this time, Truman may not know how much impact his temporary plan to delay the army would have on the future generations of the United States. It was precisely because of his compromise with the hawks in order to gain a foothold that the uneasy factor further strengthened, which made his subsequent US presidents unable to implement a relatively eased foreign policy during his tenure. The military battle with the Soviet Union demonstrated its existence around the world, directly provoking regional wars in Vietnam, etc., and this series of measures directly caused the slowdown in the United States' economic development after the war.

In the early 1960s, that is, at the end of the Soviet Union's rule, the United States, which had been in an arms race with the Soviet Union, finally had problems in economic development. The shrinking of the domestic economy forced the country to transform from an aggressive offensive attitude in foreign policy to a large-scale strategic contraction. This change means that the US-Soviet hegemony that began after the end of World War II came to an end. Under the guidance of Chu Sinan's "new socialist economic model" policy, the Soviet Union, which grew rapidly, caught up in all aspects such as economy, politics, and military, and even surpassed the United States.

Of course, at this time in May 1945, Chu Sinan, who had just received the news that Roosevelt died of illness and Truman succeeded to the US President, could not imagine what the international environment would be like in twenty years. At this time, he only predicted that after Truman came to power, the United States' foreign policy would undergo a huge change. In order to cope with this change, he also began to speed up his actions.

On May 21, the new Communist International Conference, convened by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, officially opened in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. At that time, left-wing parties from more than 50 countries around the world sent representatives to participate in this unprecedented international Communist Party Conference.

It was at this meeting that the "Warsaw Treaty Organization", the first paramilitary alliance organization in the world that was all joined by socialist countries and based on equality, mutual benefit and friendly cooperation, was officially established. Due to the different domestic situations of each country, especially many participating political parties still failed to fully grasp their own regimes, the first batch of member states to join the Warsaw Treaty Organization were only nine Eastern European countries, while China, Vietnam and other countries joined the organization as observers.

With the establishment of the Warsaw Pact, the Warsaw Pact troops also began to be formed. According to the original organizational principles, the soldiers of the Warsaw Pact troops were drawn from the elite troops of each member state, and the funds to maintain this troops were jointly borne according to different situations of each country. The supreme commander of the troops was nominated and voted by the member states of the Warsaw Pact. The term of office of the supreme commander is two years, and he cannot serve more than two consecutive terms. There is no doubt that the candidate for the supreme commander of the first person Warsaw Pact troops was Chu Sinan. After all, his prestige in the Communist International and his prestige in the entire Eastern European region is unmatched.

The establishment of the Warsaw Pact can be said to be a symbol of the rise of left-wing countries around the world. Since its establishment in 1945, this organization has been growing continuously.

In 1947, the joining of the People's Republic of China, and subsequently the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Socialist Democratic Republic of Japan and other countries marked the official spread of the Warsaw Pact influence to Asia.

In 1955, the joining of the People's Democratic People's Republic of China and the Greater Libyan Socialist People's State marked the spread of the influence of the Warsaw Pact to the Middle East and achieved rapid development.

In 1961, the accession of the Republic of Cuba marked the expansion of the Warsaw Pact's influence to South America, thus directly stabbing the United States in the back.

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