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"However, if we do this, the United States will be the happiest, because France provides money to subsidize pro-American forces to suppress pro-Soviet forces. In the end, we may be busy and let the Americans take advantage of it."

"Secondly, the Germans are happy. They are looking at us gloating. Anyway, the loss of the French is a good thing for Germany. As for the British, they are worrying about the way out of the Shell Group, so they have no time to pay attention to us. So now Would President Chirac still think it was the right thing to fund pro-American forces attacking Soviet-controlled oil fields?"

"So?" Chirac didn't know what Jupe wanted to say.

"So I think the best way is for France and the Soviet Union to join hands to carve up or even annex Libya's oil interests within the framework of the European Union, and drive Germany and Britain out of it. Isn't France now in a difficult economic period? We sold it to How long will it take for a Vietnamese Kassar-class destroyer to pay back? And what is the payback period for the oil field? Needless to say, right?"

Indeed, arms sales seem to be hugely profitable, but they are far less easy than income from the oil industry. Jupp euphemistically criticized Chirac's policy in Libya. He believed that it was wrong to choose to cooperate with the United States. After all, France is an independent country. A self-sufficient European power is not a pawn in the hands of the United States.

"Unite with the Soviet Union? Now you have fallen out with the Soviet Union, and then go to unite with the Soviet Union to deal with the United States?" Chirac's eyes widened, as if he was listening to the funniest joke in the world.

"What does that matter? Don't forget that national interests are the most important thing. Besides, don't France and Russia always have a tradition of friendship? And what benefits can France get from joining forces with the United States? The agent of Libya is from the United States, and the funds are from France. The oil fields funded by the government are not ours, at least most of them will not be ours. Because the United States wants to use these oil fields to remedy the debts of the world's largest oil company under the United Kingdom, understand? As long as the United Kingdom does not fall, The United States can continue to use NATO to manipulate Europe, and this is the most deadly point."

"President de Gaulle wanted to break the situation where the United States controlled Europe, but he just barely kept France at a certain distance. What's more, the Soviet Union is now undergoing a large-scale disarmament. The original Soviet steel torrent has been dismantled by more than half. They have switched from a strategic offensive Therefore, France has to see the situation clearly. The Soviet Union is no longer our main enemy. It is the Americans who want to take advantage of the economic crisis to intervene in Europe. Don’t forget that in Libya, the United States’ allies include Britain, France, etc. In European countries, one more France means one less piece of meat in the bowl. If this is the case, why don’t the Americans take advantage of the contradiction between France and the Soviet Union to seek their own interests? Afterwards, France can get a share It's not bad."

Prime Minister Juppe took a deep breath and expressed all his views. He hoped that Chirac could see this clearly, and he must not be so stupid as to be a pawn for the United States against the Soviet Union.

After listening to Prime Minister Juppe's words, Chirac fell into deep thought.What the other party said is not unreasonable. Rather than collude with the United States, it is better to seek interests for oneself.

"So what should we do now? Unite with the Soviet Union? It is estimated that they are angry now, how could they unite with us to oppose the United States?" President Chirac said helplessly.

"Yanayev is a shrewd head of state. It can be seen from the deal with Vietnam that he left us a way out. Li Duc Anh announced that he would not consider France first, but carefully consider the Soviet Union. This is their mercy." Jupe continued to analyze, "Let's make a bet? As long as we can stop the aid to the pro-American forces, the Soviet Union is likely to resolve this issue peacefully through dialogue between the Soviet Union and France. At that time..."

Jupe clicked to stop, and let Chirac imagine the next follow-up development by himself.

Chirac took a deep breath, nodded and said, "I understand, Prime Minister Juppé."

Chapter 474 Oil Resources

No matter how unwilling President Chirac was to admit his policy mistakes, he still changed Libya's policy. From funding the February Revolutionary Brigade at the beginning, he has gradually become a bystander. He doesn't care about the life and death of a group of militias, Buti Flech has also changed from a turbulent situation at the beginning to a tug of war between the two sides.

This is President Chirac's nomination certificate, which means that France will not conspire with the United States to touch the cheese of the Soviet Union. France also asks the Soviet Union to let France go for a while on the issue of arms sales to Vietnam.Of course, he did not push each other step by step on the South China Sea issue after seeing that France put down his figure. In the end, Vietnam and France reached an order for five fighter-class missile patrol boats. However, after consideration by the Ministry of National Defense, they still chose between The familiar Soviet Cassin-class destroyers, because the Soviet Union promised to help them upgrade the anti-aircraft missiles of active ships, which France cannot do.

So in the end, France can only regretfully pass by the goddess of victory.

Although it is a bit regretful, Chirac has completed the deal anyway. As long as this door is opened, Chirac believes that he can insert into the arms sales of the South China Sea countries, but Chirac does not know that the Soviet Union has included the South China Sea into its own arms. Dumping the site, just when everyone was focusing on the war-torn Middle East, Yanayev had already begun to use Vietnam as a starting point to promote the foreign trade version "Bastion System" jointly developed by himself and Japan to neighboring countries.

"President Chirac has begun to give in, and the French ambassador to the Soviet Union has submitted this application for a secret visit to us. I think there must be something hidden behind it." Shevardnadze handed the secret application from France to Yanayev, only Yanayev has the final say.

Yanayev opened the document sealed in the envelope, and quickly browsed through the information on it, after which he fell into deep thought.Yanayev's contemplation was far longer than the content of the letter, so that Ryzhkov and Shevardnadze could only stand still and wait for Yanayev's further instructions.

"Comrade Ryzhkov." Yanayev suddenly opened his eyes, and he said to the chairman of the Council of Ministers in front of him, "If France and the Soviet Union cooperate, how likely is it to embezzle most of Libya's oil fields?"

Ryzhkov was stunned for a moment. He hadn't considered this issue very carefully, but he still expressed his general opinion, "Now the Gabe Oilfield and Hussein Oilfield in the Kalanshu Desert are in the hands of the Americans. Garf , the oil fields in Mirbachi and Zaletan are complicated. There are both German infiltration and British direct control. Now France wants to unite with the Soviet Union to destroy other countries' oil revenue. It is not such a simple matter. Unless France is willing Continue to spend money and efforts to prevent Gaddafi's army's southward policy. After the revolution in Tripoli, Gaddafi entrenched in the southern city to survive. But this does not mean that they will not fight back, and what they most hope to see The thing is..."

"Civil turmoil in the opposition government?" Yanayev added the next sentence bluntly.

"Yes." Ryzhkov was opened up. He expressed his opinions carefully before, but now he expresses his opinions freely, "The interim coalition government was forced to However, once a certain area is controlled, the interest disputes between them will be exposed. Moreover, there are many internal factions, so that if the interim government cannot conquer most of the main forces of the government forces in Libya in a short period of time, it will be destroyed. disaster."

Gaddafi's army is stationed in Kufra stronghold, ready to counterattack at any time.The current French strike against Gaddafi is far less enthusiastic than in history. It only carried out precision-guided strikes against Gaddafi's army in the first three months of the Libyan civil war. The agent, on the contrary, did not get much profit.This is why the anti-government army did not end the battle against the government army in just one year like the civil war in history.

Yanayev held his chin, thinking and expressing his opinion, "If we unite with France, Butifle Pool will become the front line against Kufra's government forces, and France will seize the resources from Kazakhstan. Mla goes from north to south, to most of the oil fields in Ove. This makes the situation in Libya more complicated. So we need a guarantee from the French.”

"Deposit?" Ryzhkov didn't quite understand what Yanayev meant.

"France will continue to air strikes on the government forces in Libya, so that the government forces will not have the strength to march north. This is one of the conditions of our cooperation." Yanayev said affirmatively.

As long as France can use air strikes to attack the armored forces and supply lines of the Libyan government forces, then crossing the Karanshu Desert is not the right choice. Presumably, the Libyan government forces have lost most of them before reaching the Butifle Pool. The combat capability of the army.

"Otherwise, don't blame the Soviet Union for selling their teammates. We will use the same method to move the offensive line of the Libyan army to Sepoha and Wodan, breaking through the last line of defense of the anti-government alliance, what else does the French have now, have the guts to throw your head Buried in the sand, pretending that the world does not exist. And there is still a big investment in France that has not been thrown out to you, and that is oil fields. Having so many oil fields now does not mean that he does not need to maintain these oil field facilities, and many of them are due to funds The problem temporarily eased the pressure on fleeing."

Now that Yanayev has made it very clear, there is no need for Ryzhkov to continue to struggle. Now the chairman of the Council of Ministers and the French Prime Minister have changed two powerful figures, which is also to reflect the freedom of the socialist system .

"General Secretary Yanayev, if there is nothing else, I will take my leave first." Shevardnadze knew that some of the following conversations would not be heard by ministers of his level.

After Shevardnadze left the presidential office, Yanayev proposed to Ryzhkov a feasible cooperation plan between the Soviet Union and France in Libya. According to this set of provisional plans, Yanayev made The noble Frenchman bowed his head.

"I also trouble Comrade Ryzhkov to tell the French President during his possible next visit that the Soviet Union can hold back the interests that Britain and Germany want, but Chirac had better show me [-]% cooperation sincerity and betray the Soviet Union in everything. His behavior is absolutely intolerable."

Chapter 475 Sufa Secret Agreement

The French Prime Minister started his visit to Moscow under a series of secret arrangements. Because this visit is confidential, except for a few high-level French people, no one else knows the itinerary.Strict secrecy has been kept between the two countries to avoid everyone's eyes and ears, and to avoid letting others know about this meeting.

Because France this time is selling their teammates for oil.Because it was a secret itinerary, neither the Soviet Union nor France made much publicity. When Prime Minister Juppe stood at the gate of the Kremlin, the whole world did not know what France would do next.As for why Chirac was not negotiating with Yanayev?Chirac said that once the insidious means behind this were discovered, he would not be willing to take the blame.

So under such circumstances, Jupe became the most suitable candidate for this negotiation. Although he also knew that this was a pitfall, he had no choice but for the future of France.At the very beginning of the negotiations, Yanayev cut straight to the point. He asked, "I want to know if France is willing to cooperate with us to embezzle most of Libya's oil fields?"

The meeting was held on the third floor of the Executive Yuan. This is not a reception in line with international diplomacy. Regarding topics such as secret conspiracy, Yanayev prefers to hold it in this slightly dark conference room, even if the other party is from abroad. High levels of government are no exception.

"If there is no sincerity, we will not stand here to discuss the future of Libya with the Soviet Union, but I am very curious about one thing, that is, your country mentioned in the previous call that you want the French to be the only beneficiaries of Libya, I wonder how prepared to do that."

"Will you talk to Gaddafi?" Yanayev asked with a smile.

"Of course not. Gaddafi is the target we want to attack. If it weren't for the deployment of a large number of Soviet-made anti-aircraft weapons in Kufra, I don't think Gaddafi will be alive and kicking." At that time, Jupe also emphasized his tone, as if mocking Yanayev's actions.

But Yanayev didn't care about this. He answered bluntly, "Gaddafi can't die now. If France and the Soviet Union want to carve up Libya's interests, Gaddafi is still valuable. Are you planning to do it now?" Seize most of the oil fields from the north to the south of Hamra to Ouway? In that case we need Gaddafi's government forces."

"Using the government army?" Zhu Pei understood what Yanayev wanted to say, and only the Soviet Union could think of such a thing.

"Yes, using government forces to attack the oil fields controlled by Britain and Germany. As a report, France and the Soviet Union will try not to interfere with the actions of Gaddafi's army. In this way, France will have the opportunity to expand its territory in Libya, because Gaddafi was busy cleaning up the others."

Every step Yanayev takes is to push France into the fire pit. This kind of behavior that offends its allies will definitely be unanimously condemned by the United States, Britain and Germany. A rift arose, and the Soviet Union just took this opportunity to win over the relationship between the two countries and become an ally of a major power in Europe.

However, according to the urgency of the French, they don't care about other people's eyes. After all, when France was in the European Union, it wanted to form a small group in the Mediterranean trade circle to drive Germany out of it.

"Of course, we do not attack Gaddafi's government forces, which does not mean that Britain and Germany will not take action. Another way is to secretly fund Gaddafi's army, but this game is very dangerous to play. Because Gaddafi There are too many variables in this person, and no one knows where his next move will be."

Yanayev also hoped that Gaddafi would take another breath and not hang up so early. European countries would devote their energies to Libya first, so that they would not have so much time to care about the small actions of the Soviet Union in other places.

"But France likes to cooperate with the enemy of the enemy. You must know that we have never worried about the variables of Gaddafi, and we are more worried about the allies who stabbed us in the back." When it comes to allies, Juppe is obviously unhappy. French cheese. It was originally said that after conquering the Butifle Pond, it promised to give priority to dividing the oil field into France. Now it uses the reason that France stopped providing funding to give priority to the Royal Petroleum Company of the Netherlands. Who doesn't know Royal Petroleum and British Shell Already merged together, the so-called financing of Royal Petroleum is blood transfusion for the British economy.

This move by the United States made France very unhappy. Chirac, who had planned to do it, decided to completely tear his face and "face to war" with his allies.

Yanayev deliberately breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Jupe, "Since France has such determination, then we are also willing to cooperate with you."

The expression on Jupe's face has not changed. He has been thinking about a problem, that is, this plan seems to be too much for the sake of France, and it almost ruins the interests of most of NATO's allies in Libya, so he will Feel a little strange.

"But I still have a question, that is why the Soviet Union supported France on the Libyan issue. Although you have agents controlling the Butifle Pool, how does one oil field compare with Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom? Observe Take a look at the actions of the Soviet Union around the world in recent years, your Russian oil trading group has almost quickly embezzled the assets of oil countries and searched for oil fields all over the world."

"Tell me, Prime Minister Jupe, do you think the Soviet Union is short of fuel?" Yanayev said with a smile.

"Of course not, your Baku, Ural and Tyumen oil-producing regions make European countries very jealous." The French Prime Minister replied honestly.

Yanayev nodded, "Actually, we don't care about the little oil in Libya. Supporting France's embezzlement of Libya's oil fields is not our generosity. After all, we also have selfish intentions. We don't want to see NATO members embezzling all oil fields , but the Soviet Union can’t stop all of this, because our influence in Libya is far less than that of Western European countries. So we need an ally, an ally who can contain what NATO is doing.”

In fact, it is not that the Soviet Union is so generous. On the contrary, it hopes that France's behavior of harming others and benefiting itself will arouse the public indignation of Western European countries. In this way, the Western European bloc, which the United States has worked hard to achieve, will appear the first destabilizing factor.

France, which has turned against NATO, will be Yanayev's first firm ally in Western Europe.