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Chapter 1325 no zuo no die (first update, please subscribe)
Will the stone fall?

Li Yian was not sure, but one thing was certain - the young master had gone too far!
Recalling Kennedy's retaliatory actions after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Li Yian walked around the office for a long time in silence, then stood in front of Berlin and looked at him scrutinizingly, as if he was deciding something.
After a long while, Li Yian asked:
"Berlin, do you think Kennedy will screw up?"

While speaking, Li Yian nodded towards the table and said:
"After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy not only forced Dulles to resign, but also took action against the Pentagon. In the past month or so, more than a dozen generals have retired."

The intention of this statement is self-evident.

Berlin thought for a moment and said:
"Sir, someone needs to be held accountable for the delay in intelligence. Moreover, according to the intelligence we have, the CIA and the Pentagon should have discovered that the Soviets were building a launch site there in August, but they did not report it to the White House until two months later. In my opinion, Dulles and the Pentagon wanted to use this incident to force Kennedy to approve the attack on Cuba and thus solve the Cuban issue. However, after the crisis is resolved, the White House will definitely fight back. They will not allow anyone to challenge the authority of the White House. Therefore, Dulles must resign. As for the Pentagon, someone also needs to be held accountable."

What was the final outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
That is, CIA Director Allen Dulles was dismissed, leaving the empire he had run for 14 years - in the past decade or so, neither Truman nor Eisenhower had been able to touch him at all.

But Kennedy seized on the Cuba opportunity to get him fired.

"So this will be the end of this?"

Li Yian asked back,

For many things, only when you are in the middle of them, you will realize that things are not that simple.

Unlike many people's imagination that American presidents are all rich, in fact, most of the time, American presidents may be "selected" by rich people, but they are not necessarily rich people. And most of the time, Americans think that the "rich men" who live a life of luxury are too weak and not tough enough. Therefore, they rarely win the election.

In order to please the Americans, Kennedy deliberately showed his toughness. During the presidential campaign, Kennedy strongly criticized Eisenhower's insufficient defense spending. In his inaugural address, he repeatedly proposed to increase military spending, authorize the development of new weapons systems, and increase investment in the moon landing, creating a new "moon landing plan."

Therefore, when Kennedy first took office, he not only did not try to reduce the size of the military, but instead began to rearm in order to show his tough side to the Americans. He ordered a large-scale construction of a nuclear arsenal to establish an advantage over the Soviet Union. During Kennedy's administration, the number of nuclear weapons increased by 50%, and intercontinental ballistic missiles increased from 63 to 424.

But this did not change the public's "contempt" for him. After a year in the White House, Kennedy gradually discovered that the situation was indeed more complicated than he had imagined. In particular, the failure of the Bay of Pigs Operation caused this young man to be criticized and even humiliated both at home and abroad.

According to a New York Times report, Kennedy once became so angry with a senior administration official that he wanted to tear the CIA into pieces and throw them into the sky.

Even Kennedy commented to a journalist friend, Ben Bradlee, "My first advice to my successor is: 'Don't trust those generals. Don't think that they are so professional in military matters just because they are soldiers. '"

These words also show his attitude towards the military - extreme distrust.

This distrust originated from the Bay of Pigs Operation, and the failure of the operation made Kennedy begin to doubt the ability of the generals in the Pentagon.

The subsequent Cuban Missile Crisis gave Kennedy a clearer understanding of the damage the Pentagon could cause to the world, and he began to think about restraining this monster.

Therefore, from getting Dulles fired to getting the generals in the Pentagon fired, it is essentially for restraint.

"Sir, do you think the military and the CIA will strike back?"

Berlin, who came from the Reich Security Bureau, naturally understood this kind of "counterattack", just like the Wehrmacht's counterattack against Hitler.

"Staging a coup?"

Shrugging his shoulders, Li Yian said:

"Who knows? I analyzed the situation at hand - that rich young man can neither control those powers nor restrain them, but he took it for granted that he could restrain them. A politician with a sound mind - first needs to control the powers, then he can restrain them. If he cannot control them and tries to restrain them, he will definitely suffer backlash - this backlash may be in a political way, or it may be in other ways."

In another world, no one knows how Kennedy came up with such a brilliant idea, but he believed that this was the pinnacle of his political career and his highlight.

The peaceful resolution of the entire incident earned Kennedy great prestige.

After the Soviet Union began to remove missiles from Cuba, Kennedy's domestic approval rating rose to a historic high of 77%. This figure reached the average level of Vice President Ross during World War II. However, in this incident, Kennedy had a great conflict of opinion with the military top brass.

When Kennedy proposed the "missiles for missiles" proposal, all senior military advisers in the White House expressed strong opposition. They believed that the Soviet Union's promise was not credible and that ground and air forces should be sent immediately to invade Cuba.

Even after the crisis was successfully resolved, some senior generals still thought Kennedy was too weak. The Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, General Curtis LeMay, told Kennedy in person that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the greatest failure in US history and that he had shown the weakness of the United States to the world. Even after the Soviet Union withdrew its missiles as agreed, General LeMay still believed that the agreement with the Soviet Union should be torn up and Cuba should be invaded again.

And in this situation, Kennedy targeted the military again... This is simply extremely stupid.

In contrast, Khrushchev was much more mature. Although he also won a high reputation, under Li Yi'an's mediation, even the hardliners refused to admit that the Soviet Union had lost face. However, he still made a speech and vowed to "build missiles like sausages." Such a statement naturally won the support of the military.

In another world, sausages are made to appease hardliners, but in this world? They are made to please hardliners!

Comparing the two, it’s a clear decision!

Of course, this is going too far.

In another world, the Cuban Missile Crisis seemed to be resolved peacefully, pulling the world back from the brink of war. But in the following year or so, Kennedy was inexplicably brainwashed this year. Then Khrushchev was overthrown by the positive change.

These two things seem to have nothing to do with each other, but in fact they have the same big background - the hardliners in the two countries are extremely dissatisfied with the two of them.

It is unknown whether they were the ones who initiated the "positive change", but what is certain is that there must be a connection between them.

It is for this reason that Li Yian had this idea.

After listening to your analysis, Berlin thought for a while and said:

"Your Excellency, I will pay more attention to this aspect."

"Do not."

Li Yian shook his head and said:
"This is a pool of stinking water that is so deep that you can't see the bottom. Whoever gets touched by it will stink. We don't need to pay any attention to it. We just need to wait for the situation to change!"

Kennedy's wild imagination remained a mystery until the 21st century, accompanied by too many conspiracies. No matter who was involved in this kind of thing, they would get into trouble and would not be able to explain themselves. At that time, the most worried country was the Soviet Union. A lot of "evidence" pointed to the Soviet Union. If Khrushchev had not been calm enough, the Soviet Union would have refueled the missiles.

After thinking for a while, Berlin said:

"Indeed, we really shouldn't play any role in this matter, but...is it possible?"

"Have."

Li Yian affirmed:

"But no one knows when and how it will happen."

Silently walking to the table, Li Yian took a cigar from the cigar box and said:

"I think we should do our best to forget about this conversation we had today."

"I see."

Berlin nodded and said:
“We will continue to work the same as before.”

"no."

Li Yian smiled slightly and said:

"Kennedy wanted to use the multilateral nuclear force plan to force us to make concessions, but he forgot one thing - Nanyang is not a follower of the United States, and it cannot obey them, so..."

After a brief pause, Li Yian said:
"We need to express our dissatisfaction in an appropriate way."

“That’s after they take action.”

"Yes!"

Li Yian frowned and said:

"Okay, let's leave it at that for now. Just continue with the previous work. As for that young master, let him do it. No zuo no die... He has to control his own destiny. Leave this file to me... This matter needs some consideration..."

需要考虑什么？
Of course, we are considering how to carry out further cooperation with the United Kingdom. Although the United Kingdom has always been far ahead in terms of being unkind, under the current premise of the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, cooperating with the United Kingdom is in the interests of Nanyang, and we are all members of the Commonwealth.

But what are the benefits of this cooperation?
Just like that, after leaving Berlin, Li Yian stood by the window and thought about the outside for a long time, and before he knew it, the sun had set.

When he made up his mind, Li Yian muttered to himself while looking at the sunset in the distance.

"Well... the sun is setting..."

When he said this, his tone was more of emotion, and a little bit of regret.

Just watching the sunset in the distance...

(End of this chapter)