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Chapter 1684: The Snipe and the Clam Fight (Third update, please subscribe)

“This Reagan!”

Li Yian did not sleep well that night, and kept thinking about a question in his mind.

Reagan, Soviet Union.

Reagan was different from all other American presidents. To all the American presidents before him, the Soviet issue was just a political issue, but only Reagan elevated the Soviet issue to a matter of life and death.

I believe that the differences between the United States and the Soviet Union are not just ideological or political. It is related to the survival of the United States.

It is for this reason that Reagan launched a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union at the beginning of his term. Although this attack was not in the form of a hot war, he found the weakest link of the Soviet Union.

"money!"

Li Yian recalled the books he had read. In Reagan's own memoirs, he clearly mentioned how he found the weakest link of the Soviet Union in the book and dealt it a fatal blow.

“Money, the biggest advantage the United States has over the Soviet Union is that we have enough dollars.

The Soviet Union could only obtain US dollars by exporting oil.

They need the US dollars earned from exporting oil to support their expansion around the world and to support the needs of their domestic market.

All the United States needs to do is to do everything in its power to reduce the Soviet Union's access to dollars and force him to spend more of them."

This is the easiest way for Reagan to defeat the Soviet Union!

In order to reduce the Soviet Union's access to US dollars, Reagan personally visited Saudi Arabia and provided security protection to Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries in exchange for their agreement to increase oil production, which caused a sharp drop in international oil prices.

Oil and natural gas were the most important channels for the Soviet Union to obtain US dollars.

At the same time, Reagan continued to push up international food prices and increase the Soviet Union's consumption of US dollars - the Soviet Union needed to spend more US dollars to obtain the food and other commodities they needed from the international market.

This is just in trade, as for other aspects, such as Afghanistan, Africa, America, and South America.

Reagan adhered to a policy of using the United States. Even if they were devils, as long as they stood on the opposite side of the Soviet Union, they were freedom fighters and they could get aid from the United States.

From the mujahideen in Afghanistan, to the tyrants in Africa, to the mavericks in South America.

They all transformed themselves into so-called "freedom fighters" and received support from the United States in all aspects.

In order to help its supporters, the Soviet Union invested more funds, more aid, and consumed more ammunition.

In terms of technology, Reagan established even stricter embargo measures, even a VCR or a video game console was within the scope of the embargo. He would rather suffer economic losses than let the Soviet Union obtain technology from the West.

As for the "Star Wars Project", it pushed the Soviet Union into a desperate situation - either spend huge amounts of money to fight the war, or the nuclear missiles built in the previous decades would become a pile of scrap metal.

But at that time, the Soviet Union had no way to respond either technically or financially.

Ultimately, under Reagan's comprehensive strategy of strangulation, the Soviet Union gradually collapsed.

Soon after Reagan handed over the presidency to Bush due to health reasons, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Facing such a Soviet killer, Li Yian really had a headache.

"If there had been no Soviet Union, the conflicts between the United States and SEAs would have erupted."

Li Yian frowned and his expression became more and more solemn.

The second child curse.

To a large extent, it was inevitable that, in another world, the United States suppressed Japan and later attacked the University of Tokyo.

To put it bluntly, it is all to attack the second in command, because only the second in command can replace the eldest in command.

The United States has never relaxed its vigilance against its second largest economy.

There was only one era when things were relaxed - under the threat of the Soviet Union!

In 1968, Japan became the second largest economy among capitalist countries in terms of economic output, second only to the United States.

But in the following decade or so, there were more trade disputes between Japan and the United States, and those trade conflicts were quickly resolved under the threat of the Soviet Union.

It was not until 85, when the Soviet threat had weakened and the Soviet Union began to retreat, that Reagan immediately took out his 40m sword against Japan.

That one blow hit Japan, and it lost 30 years in an instant.

Over the next 30 years, Japan declined from the world's second to third, and then slipped to fourth.

How far it will slide in the future? No one knows.

But what is certain is that there is only one result in the competition between the boss and the second one - the winner takes all and the loser has nothing.

Unless they are willing to become a role like Japan, conflict with the boss will be inevitable.

Who in this world is willing to become such a role?

Li Yianran will never be willing to sink.

"That means we must persist in colluding with Russia and undermining the United States!"

Although he was somewhat reluctant, Li Yian still had to face a very realistic problem: only by keeping Russia sufficiently threatening would the United States ignore the threat posed by the world's second largest country.

Otherwise, once Russia declines, the United States will turn its sword against itself.

"The Soviet Union..."

I had already made the decision in my heart, but whenever I thought of the Soviet Union, my brows would frown, because that piece of mud was really impossible to support.

The reason for such an evaluation is entirely because of the Medal Emperor - the Medal Emperor's complacency directly stifled the Soviet Union's reforms.

It was also because of this that the Soviet Union gradually went into a desperate situation, and was finally strangled step by step by Reagan who seized the opportunity.

In this situation, even if they wanted to help the Soviet Union, they would probably be unable to do so.

After all, the Soviet Union could not overcome its own problems and challenge the United States by relying solely on external forces.

"From the perspective of the SEAs, a strong and aggressive Soviet Union is far better than a weak Soviet Union!"

In the study, Li Yian looked at Berlin and said:

"The only question is how to keep the Soviet Union strong and aggressive for the next 20 to 30 years."

"This one……"

Berlin thought for a moment, then said:

"It seems that the Soviet Union is still very powerful now, as they were the first country to land on the moon.

They have demonstrated their strength in front of the whole world, and their strength is obvious to all.”

Berlin's answer made Li Yian shake his head and say.

"This strength is only temporary. They lag behind the Western world in many technological fields. Coupled with some of their own problems, the decline of the Soviet Union will be inevitable in about a decade."

"The decline of the Soviet Union was inevitable?"

Berlin looked at you with a puzzled look on his face and asked:
"How is this possible?"

"We must take this possibility into consideration and take targeted measures to respond."

As Li Yian said this, he looked at Berlin and asked:

"So I need you to collect some intelligence here, and then learn as much as possible about the Soviet Union's weak links, so that we can provide them with some help when the time is right."

After listening to your decision, Berlin thought for a moment and then said:

"Sir, we can do this, but you must be clear about one thing - the Russians are a double-edged sword. Just like before World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union had extremely extensive cooperation. During World War II, the assistance provided by the United States and Britain to the Soviet Union was also selfless, but the final result is also obvious to all."

Looking at His Excellency, Berlin said solemnly:

"Historically, Russia has never been a grateful country. All the help you give them is just help to them, which does not prevent them from choosing to betray or sell out at the appropriate time.

There is an old European proverb: If you shake hands with a Russian, be careful that he doesn't break your fingers.

So the help we give them will not get anything in return. But we must also consider that helping Russia may backfire on us. "

This is Russia.

This is how Russia is seen by Europeans. Of course, there is no exaggeration. It can even be said that this European proverb is a bit too much for the Russians. They will not break your fingers, but will directly chop off your palms.

Li Yian nodded and said:

"It is clear what the consequences of dealing with the Russians will be. However, everything we do now is based on strategic considerations. We must see that in the next few years, with the rapid development of the economy, our GDP will soon become the second largest in the world, and we will have to face suppression from the United States."

Li Yian stood up and spoke as he walked.

"In this situation, we need a strong Soviet Union to share our burden, but we also need an aggressive Soviet Union to force the United States to go all out to confront it.
Only in this way can we concentrate on developing ourselves when the snipe and the clam are fighting, and finally we will be the ones who benefit.”

After thinking for a while, Li Yian added:
"As long as the Soviet Union maintains an aggressive posture, the United States will not be able to focus on us. Not only that, they will have to further integrate with us to concentrate their forces against the Soviet Union. In this case, the benefits we will gain will be extremely rich.

Perhaps, we will surpass the United States without realizing it.”

When talking about surpassing, Li Yian's heart couldn't help but be filled with anticipation.

It is not impossible to surpass the United States. What's more important is that this kind of surpassing is taking place silently. By the time Americans realize it, it is already too late.

"When two powers are at odds, they will attack each other. In comparison, the threat posed to us by a powerful Soviet Union is limited, far from that posed by the United States. As for the vigilance against the second power, they will go all out to attack us, just like they did the Soviet Union."

Li Yian raised his eyebrows and said:
"So the Soviet Union's backlash is acceptable. Besides, the Soviet Union still has some flaws that will limit their development and restrict their future. It won't be too late to turn around and deal with them after we have fully developed."

When saying this, Li Yian's tone was extremely confident.

"And now the biggest threat to us is not the Soviet Union, but the United States. Only the United States can give us the most fatal blow.

So we have to get the United States to turn their attention to the Soviet Union."

(End of this chapter)