King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer-Chapter 1912 - 1589: Rekindling Old Grudges
Capítulo 1912: Chapter 1589: Rekindling Old Grudges
After Joe Ga finished talking with Xiao Ma, he followed Xiao Ma to greet the guy from Germany…
To be honest, German politicians are essentially pragmatic, but unfortunately, due to the foundation laid by Mrs. Merkel with the Green Party, they are unable to escape the ideological trap established by Britain and America.
This is not to say that Merkel was wrong, but rather that at the time when Germany’s economy was at its best, she chose the most appropriate stance for Germany’s needs.
However, the world is always changing…
When the Russian W war broke out, Germany, which seemed ready to lead Europe into the future, suddenly found itself the target of being harvested, unable to even utter a word of opposition.
Be it for the sake of a united Europe or the reasons of coalition stance, Germany could only choose to take a side, even if this siding inflicted devastating damage on Germany’s domestic industrial capital…
These people actually understand the predicament they face, but they’re trapped within the overall values established by the Green Party and cannot break free. Now, when faced with Boss Qiao’s request for a contract to secure the Nord Stream lines in the Baltic Sea, the German side agreed almost without hesitation.
A German company responsible for handling Nord Stream energy issued a security contract worth 50 million euros for a three-month period, and also promised to provide several fast boats…
Joe Ga was actually not satisfied with the ‘price’, but he was somewhat satisfied with the Germans’ attitude…
Over the past year or more, Joe Ga has engaged in many so-called ‘money-losing deals’ and has thoroughly understood the logic of those ‘profitless transactions’ in international relations.
This kind of thing cannot simply be measured by ‘input’ and ‘return’…
Compared to the simple ‘business principles’ practiced by his mother, where ‘aid and assistance’ was provided to help build up the other party, who would in turn repay in resources or market, what Joe Ga did was more akin to the approach traditionally used by the Americans…
That is to incur certain costs, establishing a multilateral alliance with his own interests at focus within a local area, resolving regional disputes through the alliance, and even intervening in political directions within the area.
His mother’s approach was pragmatic and adhered to a non-alignment policy.
Whereas the Americans followed an intangible approach, often unable to find excuses but instead creating issues through ideological problems, then financing it themselves, leveraging political dominance to hold a leadership role within the multilateral alliance. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
A very typical feature of such alliances was that the leader must unquestionably be the chief!
When America was strong, they would take the lead or contribute the largest portion of resources, leading the multilateral alliances within various regions, invincible.
Much like NATO before 2008, where America undertook most of the national defense budget of NATO countries, thus NATO held him in high regard.
And Joe Ga organized the Nord Stream Security Alliance in the Baltic Sea with France and Germany; theoretically, it’s certainly for the service of Germany and the whole of Europe, but in reality, Joe Ga is solving his own problems, hence he’s responsible for the major part of the actions…
Human and material resources are provided by P.B, so Boss Qiao is the leader of the operation.
This is the usual alliance model of America…
No matter where I want to cause a stir, I must first pull in a few allies for support, even pushing the allies to serve as proxies.
Boss Qiao certainly doesn’t have as strong political influence as America, so he can only choose to pull in allies and then act as the ‘agent’ himself.
Although the process is not quite the same, the concept is the same…
Of course, just forming a multilateral alliance with only France and Germany isn’t enough, so Joe Ga found the Swedish Crown Princess at the evening gathering…
They have been friends for a long time, and the Swedish Royal family has significantly contributed to the development of P.B and received substantial returns. The deposed Prince Carl, through close collaboration with Qiao Liang, amassed a fortune worth billions within a few years.
Although the Swedish Royal family doesn’t have much control over the Swedish government, having the royal members involved, coupled with the endorsement by France and Germany, and the legitimacy of P.B’s actions, it’s easy to persuade the Swedish government to sign the contract and join this so-called ‘Baltic Nord Stream Security Alliance’.
With the involvement of these three, plus Germany privately notifying Russia, allowing them to also issue P.B a contract from their standpoint.
This temporally localized alliance signifying ‘absolute correctness’ has officially taken shape!
The gathering didn’t end until around midnight, and as Joe Ga sent off his friends, an unlicensed car blended in with the vehicles and departed together.
A Swedish special plane then took off after the car arrived, with Dorian and Ronnie discreetly heading toward Sweden.
Dorian needs to rendezvous with Tony and a group of tech nerds taking equipment to Sweden’s Gotland Island…
Supposedly safeguarding the Nord Stream routes is an incredibly challenging task for a private company.
This requires not just ample manpower but also sufficient technical prowess.
Gotland Island is strategically located right in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Renting an airport here enables Joe Ga to fully mobilize P.B’s resources, sending more unmanned airships and technical equipment there.
Moreover, Dorian has a more crucial mission: to track down those posing as the Fatal Strike Group in Sweden, locate them and keep an eye on them.
