Chapter 174 The Real Reason for the War

Moscow.

The weather in April has begun to become warmer. The snow has long melted. People have taken off their bulky thick clothes and put on windbreakers. Girls who love beauty match them with high heels. The whole city seems lively again.

In a conference room on the second floor of the Kremlin in the city center, the atmosphere was also very lively.

"The Americans finally admitted defeat!" Brezhnev sat in his seat and scratched his head with his hand. At this time, the hair on his forehead was already sparse, and he was in a very good spirit.

"Carter, you guy, I'm not old yet." Brezhnev felt extremely happy in his heart.

After hearing Brezhnev's words, Andropov and Ustinov, who were sitting below, looked at each other. There was no expression on their faces, but there was a knowing smile in their hearts.

It is not easy to get the General Secretary to agree to this war. After all, in the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, any friction between the two sides may lead to a dangerous world war!

However, if the Soviet Union wants to make a breakthrough, it must bravely take a step forward! After the tough Ustinov came to power, he had been planning how to break through the blockade of the Western world.

Forget Western Europe. It is quite difficult to plant the Soviet flag in Western Europe. Ustinov thought of a solution, one of which is to break through in Central Asia and from the Indian Ocean! But now, this idea lacks sufficient external environment. The Soviet Union cannot directly launch a war. As for the Far East, Andrei gave him a creative suggestion.

A breakthrough point from the Far East is in Hokkaido! Find an ice-free port for the Soviet Pacific Fleet, and you can go directly to the Pacific Ocean! Especially the submarine force, in the Pacific Ocean, you can directly deter the US land!

Ustinov was already tempted. Last year, he began to mobilize troops, including several warships in the west, to the Far East to strengthen the Pacific Fleet there. And this year, the Americans happened to start making trouble in the Far East again. They actually used a civilian airliner as a reconnaissance plane to investigate the base on Sakhalin Island. Afterwards, it was shot down by the Soviet air defense force. Instead, they slandered the Soviet Union. This is simply an active provocation!

This has forced the Soviet Union into a dangerous position. If the Soviet Union does not teach them a lesson, the Americans will become more aggressive!

However, when General Ustinov put forward the plan at the meeting, it did not receive the approval of the General Secretary.

Brezhnev had to consider the overall situation. If a world war was ignited, it would not be good for the Soviet Union. As the top leader, he had to consider things more carefully.

This made Ustinov very depressed. Without the approval of the General Secretary, the layout of the Far East could not go forward!

At this time, the KGB helped Ustinov again. A KGB agent hiding in the United States got a top-secret intelligence that the American top brass was actually laughing at the Soviet top brass!

Sarcasm between the two sides is common, but the content of the ridicule during this meeting in the White House made Brezhnev angry.

"Brezhnev? That old man has one foot on the doorstep of hell, but he still refuses to give up power. The Soviet Union has already entered its twilight years! It's nothing like the United States, which is full of vitality!"

These are Carter's original words! How could Brezhnev not be furious! Although Carter was 20 years younger than Brezhnev, as a politician, the elderly have the advantages of the elderly. The elderly are experienced and have experienced too much!

Carter actually cursed Brezhnev to death with great complacency. After hearing the news, Brezhnev attended a series of events to show that he was still alive.

If these words made Brezhnev angry, then the other words made Brezhnev want to strangle Carter to death.

"That old guy likes to play homosexual tricks! Look at him, he has even figured out the etiquette of men kissing!"

During the Brezhnev era, there was a terrifying thing, which was the "Brezhnev Kiss"!

This kind of kiss is also known as Brezhnev's triple kiss, which means kissing both cheeks first and then lips. Brezhnev kissed leaders of various socialist countries and republics. Among them, the kiss with East German leader Erich Honecker was put on the Berlin Wall by an artist. However, few politicians from various countries who were kissed by him were willing or happy.

Brezhnev wanted to kiss the Iron Lady, but she cleverly dodged him. He then wanted to kiss Castro, but Castro just happened to light a cigar. The first leader in the Western world to accept Brezhnev's etiquette of kiss was actually his current arch-enemy Carter!

In Brezhnev's mind, this was a friendly way to improve the relationship between the two sides. He did not have any such fetish when kissing, and no one dared to blame him for this.

Carter actually dared to say that! This made Brezhnev finally unable to bear it, and he agreed to Ustinov's proposal to teach the Americans a lesson they would never forget!

At the same time, according to the analysis of others, as long as the Soviet army acts fast enough, the Americans will lack the courage to continue the confrontation. As long as the war does not become a stagnant war like the one in Vietnam, victory will belong to the Soviets!

Now, as expected, the Americans had no time to transfer troops from their homeland, and actually took the initiative to ask for peace with the Soviet Union. In principle, they agreed to the Soviet Union's occupation of the northern part of the Rumoi-Kushiro line, and hoped that the Soviet Union would withdraw its troops from Chitose and other places!

I wonder what Carter would feel if he knew that the ultimate reason why the Soviet Union launched the war was actually fabricated.

In short, the current situation is to respond to the conditions put forward by the Americans. Should we continue to insist on occupying the entire Hokkaido, or should we occupy the area north of Rumoi-Kushiro as proposed by the Americans?

This was the message that Ambassador Dobrynin passed on. Moscow didn't know it at the time, and Dobrynin didn't know how many greetings he had sent to the Moscow leaders in his heart.

As an important Soviet diplomat, Dobrynin has always played the role of firefighter and mediator between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrated Dobrynin's ability, but also made him tread on thin ice.

This time, the Soviet Union's attack on Hokkaido was not notified to Dobrynin in advance, and Dobrynin had to uphold the justice of the Soviet Union according to Moscow's wishes. Now, he has to play the role of mediator!

Mediation is to find conditions that both sides can be satisfied with. Now that the Soviet Union has taken action against Hokkaido, it is absolutely impossible to get the Soviet Union to withdraw from Hokkaido. If the Soviet Union occupies the entire Hokkaido, the United States will not agree. It is better to follow Moscow's original statement and demand the territory north of Rumoi-Kushiro, which is more realistic.