African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1307: East-America Geopolitical Conflict
After Loggans analyzed the reasons for the United States' participation in the war from an economic perspective, Defense Secretary Pripyat also analyzed the US government's participation in the war from a geopolitical perspective.

"The United States cannot escape the influence of the British in international affairs. Furthermore, the United States certainly intends to use the influence of Britain to enhance its position in international competition."

"The United States is limited by its geographical location. Its expansion directions are three: the American continent, especially Latin America; the European continent; and Asia."

"Among them, in the Americas, although Britain and France were affected by the war and their power shrank significantly, the Empire just happened to fill this gap."

"Especially in terms of influence on South American countries, we have more advantages than the United States. In major South American countries such as Brazil and Argentina, the empire's influence has surpassed that of Britain and the United States."

"In northern South America, our influence has penetrated to the periphery of the Caribbean Sea and even directly threatened the Panama Canal, an important channel closely related to the US economy."

Why does East Africa threaten the Panama Canal? This has to start with the country of Panama. Originally, Panama was not an independent country, but a territory of Colombia. In order to strengthen its control over the Panama Canal, the United States supported Panama's independence movement in the early twentieth century.

According to the normal course of history, Colombia could only blame itself for its bad luck. After all, the United States was the only superpower in America in the past, and it happened to encounter an opportunity where European powers such as Britain and France had to withdraw from America.

But now with the addition of East Africa, the situation is naturally different. Originally, East Africa focused on Venezuela, and Colombia, as a neighbor of Venezuela, especially close to Venezuela's oil production areas, made East Africa pay attention to its diplomatic relations with Colombia.

What's more, the two countries have a natural basis for cooperation. Colombia needs new external forces to balance the United States. If possible, it even wants to take back the lost territory of Panama and control the Panama Canal, which is a money printing machine.

East Africa also does not want the United States to dominate the Caribbean. In the past, the United States almost turned the Caribbean into its own inland sea and did whatever it wanted in the region.

East Africa is certainly not a "saint" and wants to stand up for the Caribbean countries, but it also does not want the United States to completely consolidate its hegemony over the Caribbean.

After all, by controlling the Caribbean Sea, in addition to potentially threatening East Africa's interests in Venezuela, the United States can also use this place to further expand its influence on South American countries.

This conflicts with East Africa's national strategy. East Africa has already regarded the southern countries as its core interests, and the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans have the same status and are regarded as the two wings of East Africa.

Moreover, from a practical point of view, the direct benefits that South America can bring to East Africa are even greater than those of the Indian Ocean.

After all, South America is more politically and economically independent and larger in size than the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean.

Although there are many good places along the Indian Ocean coast, the key areas are basically under British control, such as India, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and other regions.

Although Britain had a strong influence in South America in the past, South America was ultimately the sphere of influence of Portugal and Spain, and it was only in the last century that the South American countries broke free from the control of these two colonial powers.

Therefore, from the perspective of practical interests or the future development strategy of East African countries, it is impossible for East Africa to ignore the relationship with the Americas, especially the South Atlantic countries.

Of course, Colombia clearly belongs to the North Atlantic, but it is indeed the front line of the confrontation between East Africa and the United States.

If East Africa wants to maintain its interests in the Americas, it has to pay attention to Colombia. Even if it cannot control it, as long as it does not turn to the United States, it will be a victory for East Africa.

Pripyat went on to say: “In the Pacific direction, we also have a competitive relationship with the United States. Our country has extensive colonies and economic interests in the Pacific.”

"The Pacific direction is related to the US strategy in Asia. Asia is the core of the Pacific, and the Far East Empire is the core of the core."

"At the same time, the United States also has a competitive relationship with my country in the Southeast Asian region. The two countries can be said to be potential competitors in Asia."

"However, the two countries are relatively far away from the East Asian region centered on the Far Eastern Empire. At the same time, the Far Eastern Empire and Japan in the region are not small countries, which makes our competition with the United States in East Asia not fierce." "But overall, my country's advantages in East Asia and expanding to the whole of Asia are far stronger than those of the United States, so the United States' expansion in the Far East is not smooth either."

East Africa attaches importance to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean because East Africa faces the two oceans and is a world power.

The same is true for the United States, so the United States naturally attaches importance to expansion in the Atlantic and Pacific directions, while also regarding the entire Americas as its core interests.

The problem now is that the expansion directions of the United States and East Africa overlap, and East Africa is generally in an advantageous position, which has hindered the United States' world policy.

So Pripyat said: "It can be said that our presence in East Africa has made it difficult for the United States to expand in two directions, and the only direction the United States can count on now is Europe."

"Moreover, in today's world, Europe can be said to be the most powerful political and economic bloc. Whoever can integrate Europe will gain world hegemony."

"The war in Europe gave the United States this opportunity, and they are in a better position than us in East Africa to participate in this round of political changes in Europe."

"After all, this time the United States intervened in European politics at the invitation of Britain and France, two traditional European powers."

To a certain extent, Britain and France determine the exchanges between other countries and inland Europe. After all, Europe's external communication channels, except for the giant Russia, are basically controlled by Britain and France.

It can be said that if Britain and France unite, other European countries will be unable to take action.

From the North Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar and then to Egypt's Suez Canal, the Atlantic and Mediterranean waters covered are the backyards of the two countries' navies.

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The reason why Russia can avoid it is that it spans two continents and its territory extends all the way to the Pacific Ocean. However, the external channels controlled by Russia basically rely on land transportation and are not major trade routes, so it is difficult to achieve anything.

Therefore, the Allied Powers controlled Europe's foreign communication routes. As long as Britain and France did not give their approval, it would be difficult for other countries to infiltrate Europe.

Even East Africa was blocked by Britain and France. Of course, there was a way for East Africa to break the impasse, which was to take over Egypt, Libya and other North African regions and turn East Africa into a Mediterranean coastal country.

However, just as the United States does not directly annex Mexico, East Africa does not want to turn Egypt and other North African regions into its own territory. Now East Africa's homeland has reached a limit.

If this limit is broken, it will put great pressure on the economic development of East Africa, just like Siberia did to Russia.

Siberia's resources are in no way inferior to those of North African regions such as Egypt and Libya, and are even more comprehensive. After all, the only resource worth paying attention to in North Africa is oil, but East Africa has now escaped from the energy crisis.

In addition, the culture and ethnicity of North Africa are very different from those of East Africa. Taking over North Africa will cause more trouble to East Africa. Other factors are that these places have been divided up by Britain and France. For example, Egypt is a British colony and Libya is a French colony. This is also a factor that East Africa cannot ignore.

This brings the topic back to Britain and France. It can be seen that the power of Britain and France just happens to wrap up the whole of Europe.

"Now, Britain and France need the United States to contain the Allies, and they have no choice but to invite the wolf into the house, while the United States obviously also covets Europe's wealth, power and influence," Pripyat said.

"Of course, the United States' participation in the war cannot rule out its containment of Germany. After all, Germany and Austria-Hungary are the core of the Allied camp. If the two countries gain hegemony in Europe, plus East Africa, the United States will always be only a regional power and be bound to the North American continent. So if the United States wants to go further, it must join the war to avoid the possibility of this happening."

If Pripyat's words come true, the United States will find it difficult to control the North American continent, let alone the entire Americas. After all, East Africa can now extend its sphere of influence to Colombia. If the United States makes a strategic mistake, other countries will only add insult to injury.

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