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Chapter 1172 Will Yingde take action?

The world situation is changing every day. While the major powers in the world are paying attention to their own development, they are also paying close attention to the dynamics that affect the world process, such as the progress of scientific and industrial technology competition between the Netherlands and the German Empire, the American Federation, and industrial powers led by Britain and France.

In addition, all countries are paying attention to the direction of the war in Mexico in Central America.

The German Empire was closely watching the sudden difficulties that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was now facing in Mexico, especially the fact that Mexico was still able to attack the southern part of Mexico occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which shocked the entire German Empire.

After all, according to the plans of German Emperor Wilhelm I and Bismarck, Mexico would gradually become smaller under the invasion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The expansion of Austria-Hungary's territory there would directly affect the Netherlands' idea of ​​establishing a back garden there.

Even Bismarck said that Britain and the Netherlands were competing in the Gulf of Mexico to attract attention so that the German Empire could take action in other parts of the world.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was, after all, just a pawn in the hands of William I, Bismarck and others.
The "black swan" event is what the Netherlands hopes for, but it is also what Britain and the German Empire do not want to see.

Previously, in March 1883, the American Peace Summit initiated by the Netherlands was held in Dutch Guiana. The German Empire did not appear and Britain was not invited to participate.

The American Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Austro-Hungarian and Mexican War Disputes without the participation of Britain and the German Empire was actually meaningless and could not achieve any substantial results.

As the most important ally of the invading Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire's attitude towards the turn of the war between Austria-Hungary and Mexico on Mexican soil attracted attention.

Of course, as a key ally of Mexico, the Netherlands' role in the Austro-Mexican War has always attracted attention.

The Austro-Hungarian Emperor Joseph Franz I said that Austria-Hungary could attend the Peace Summit of the Americas, but his conditions included Mexico's recognition of the Mexican territory occupied by Austria-Hungary for more than a year and its abandonment of its ambition to occupy the land, which was difficult for Mexico to accept. After the Austro-Mexico counterattack on the Austrian-occupied territory, Joseph Franz I reported the convening of the Austro-Hungarian Security Conference and publicly said angrily that peace talks with Mexico seemed increasingly meaningless.

Franz Joseph I also had his reasons for being tough. After all, Mexico was suffering from a shortage of troops, and it was still a question whether it could hold its current defensive positions. After the battle line was lengthened, if the supply could not keep up, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would take advantage of the situation to attack the side of Mexico close to the Pacific Ocean, or catch the enemy in a trap around Mexico City. Mexico would lose more than it gained, and might even suffer a rebound, triggering its own political infighting.

However, it is unknown how much support Austria-Hungary has for Mexico from other countries.

A “black swan” event is something Mexico is hoping for, but it is not something Britain and the German Empire would like to see.

Queen Victoria of the British Empire boasted that she could end the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Mexico overnight, but William I of the German Empire believed that King William III of the Netherlands only needed to write a letter personally to resolve the crisis. The reason was that Mexico was very dependent on the American South Alliance formed by the Netherlands. Even if the Netherlands stopped supporting Mexico, it would only take a week for Mexico City to be captured by the Austro-Hungarian army. Therefore, William III believed that Britain, the German Empire, and even the countries in the Americas could not do it.

Mexico's counterattack against Austria-Hungary became increasingly fierce. Even on June 1883, 6, more than 5 Austro-Hungarian soldiers were killed in a small city to the north of the Veracruz state capital.

This news was originally blocked by the Vienna government, but from an unknown source, it slowly spread across Europe, and finally the Austro-Hungarian government in Vienna had to admit that it was true.

The official confirmation immediately caused panic among the Austrians and Hungarians, and weakened the trust of the elites in Austria, Hungary and other territories ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in His Majesty Franz Joseph I. Obviously, the successful Mexican counterattacks seemed to have fundamentally struck a perfect blow from within the Austro-Hungarian Empire and even defeated the cohesion of Franz Joseph I's regime.

Many people predict that with this development trend, although the door to negotiations between Mexico and Austria-Hungary has not yet been opened, even the hesitation between Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Latin American allies as to whether to contact them privately to ask them to cease fire seems to be unable to keep up with the changes.

This counterattack by Mexico also made the threat hardliners who regarded themselves as a so-called European power under Franz Joseph I shaky.

The Netherlands has not yet approved the Dutch army's participation in supporting Mexico, and even the Latin American allies only supported Mexico on a voluntary basis, because of Austria-Hungary's powerful status and strong military force.

British and German support comes second.

But now the Austro-Hungarian Empire is so weak that it can't even defeat Mexico, so the South American countries have begun to look down on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In such a situation, Britain and Germany still seem to be halfheartedly shouting slogans for mediation and pressuring Mexico to make concessions, but they have not shown any sign of increasing their support.

William IV watched Mexico's successful counterattack and couldn't help but think of the previous world = on the eve of his time travel, there was a country called Ukraine that also went through the same thing, but at that time its support was the Western world, while now Mexico's supporters are himself.

However, the two are similar in that when faced with invasions from powerful countries, both Ukraine and Mexico fought back and succeeded.

Mexico currently needs to do several things in order to gain a more advantageous negotiating position.

First, faced with a variety of unfavorable conditions, Mexico had to create a more favorable negotiating position within a limited time window so that it could get closer to the goal of just peace it was striving for, that is, a peaceful space based on the territory occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Second, it would increase the bargaining chips at the future negotiation table. If more than half or even the entire territory of Veracruz State could be captured and consolidated, then in future negotiations, even if that was not all the territory occupied by Austria-Hungary, it could be used as a way to consolidate the actual control line, that is, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would completely withdraw from the territory gained by launching the war.

Finally, if Mexico increased the number of casualties among the Austro-Hungarian invading forces, it would undermine the reputation of Franz Joseph I. Finally, in order to preserve the Austro-Hungarian emperor's status and Hungary's continued support in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it would have to compromise and withdraw its troops, admitting defeat. This would be the biggest help in the negotiations.

Under the guidance of William IV, the Dutch and Mexican governments are currently using this strategy to promote Mexico's counterattack, and they are achieving success.

However, William IV did not dare to take it lightly, because Britain and Germany behind the Austro-Hungarian Empire would surely change their current approach. After all, they did not want the Austro-Hungarian Empire to lose too completely.

But I don’t know what Queen Victoria, William I and Bismarck will do?
William IV was looking forward to his opponent's next move.

(End of this chapter)