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Chapter 896 The Fury of Moscow (Fourth update, please subscribe)

Some people feel happy, some people feel pain.

At least Moscow is in pain now. Although the "Bangkok Moment" will not appear in Pravda, the reality of "losing Siam" makes the Moscow top leaders very unhappy!
One can even say - very unhappy!
What made them even more depressed was that the United States announced that it would provide economic and military assistance to Siam for its national reconstruction.

There are no secrets in this world, and many things are public. The so-called aid is just an excuse for the United States to enter Siam.

Faced with the reality of the United States entering Siam, Moscow felt like it had been slapped in the face.

It hurts so much!
What Moscow loses, Washington gains!
This is not just unhappiness, this is anger!

Eventually, all this pressure was passed on to Khrushchev.

"Siam's failure has caused us to lose the source of natural rubber, as well as commodities such as coffee, sugar and spices. Our comrades in Eastern Europe are asking - who lost Siam!"

Although Motolov's voice was not loud, his words revealed a lot of information - everyone was very unhappy!

Can you be happy?

Before our comrades in Siam lost power, the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries could obtain various products unique to the tropics from there through barter trade or even accounting, and now they have these.

This has even affected the dining tables of various countries! Their dissatisfaction is understandable.

"Tell them that this problem is being solved. Although we have lost Siam, we still have Jakarta, where there is more rubber, coffee, sugar and spices. Their needs can be met!"

Khrushchev directly changed the subject. When questioned about the loss of Siam, he chose Jakarta straightforwardly.

"Now that Jakarta is experiencing an internal rebellion, Sugaro is seeking our assistance. We will give them more assistance, more advanced weapons, and send advisors and even troops to help them quell the rebellion and, at the same time, fight against the threat from Southeast Asia!"

Khrushchev looked at Motolov and forced a smile.

"Now Nanyang has brought Jakarta to us. Sukarno is very worried about Nanyang's invasion. In order to maintain his rule, he will definitely sign a friendly treaty with us. By then, the whole of Indonesia will be ours, and we will have more rubber, sugar, and coffee!"

Is this a picture of glutinous rice balls?

Of course not, because Sugaro was indeed worried - the dispute between Indonesia and Southeast Asia had never stopped, and the Soviet Union was Indonesia's only choice.

"Now, they are questioning our weakness!"

Motolov said.

"Our concessions in Siam have shown everyone our weakness, Nikita, weakness! How can they trust us to protect them when we failed to keep Bangkok?"

"Military base!"

Khrushchev said.

"That's exactly what I want to say. Our passivity in the Siam incident is because we don't have a military base there. We can't protect Siam like the Americans protect the Philippines. The comrades in Bangkok are too confident. They think they can survive well without the protection of the Soviet Union. Facts have proved that without the direct protection of the Soviet Union, they are doomed to perish!"

As a professional bureaucrat who had worked his way up from the grassroots, Khrushchev knew very well how to overcome the current difficulties.

Just find a scapegoat to take the responsibility. The dead can't speak anyway, so just put all the blame on the dead.

"We need to strengthen cooperation with brother countries. The demise of Siam has sounded the alarm for them - without the Soviet Union, they are nothing!"

Khrushchev said, waving his arms vigorously. "So, we need to make Sugaro understand this. Of course, he may not agree to our request immediately, but he will definitely agree in the end. By that time, our fleet will be stationed in the warm equator for the first time, and will enter the Indian Ocean for the first time. Moreover, Indonesia will become a tropical crop plantation for the Soviet Union and the entire family!"

Khrushchev was drawing a hollow dumpling like this. It didn't matter whether others believed it or not. What mattered was that he needed to do this. He needed to use Indonesia to make up for the mistake of losing Siam.

In fact, Khrushchev knew very well that the "Siamese issue" was just an excuse for them to blame themselves. When Nanyang took out the atomic bomb, they unanimously decided in the conference room that there was no need to drop atomic bombs on each other for Siam and Nanyang! The United States must not be allowed to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight - even Nanyang was not even a tiger, at most a monkey.

Of course, what’s more important is that Nanyang is too far away and out of reach!

This is also his reason and excuse for shirking responsibility.

"And from a certain perspective, the demise of Siam is a wake-up call to our comrades, reminding them that they not only need the protection of the Soviet Union, but also the protection of the Soviet army. Only the existence of the Soviet army can truly protect them from the invasion of imperialists!"

In response to Khrushchev's answer, Motolov was silent for a moment, then spoke.

"Nikita, you know I have always supported you, but you have to understand that now in everyone's eyes, our concessions are weakness."

Faced with Motlov's "support", Khrushchev didn't believe a single letter of it, but he pretended to be moved.

Motolov looked directly at Khrushchev and reminded him.

“Moreover, now the United States is negotiating with Siam that Siam will not only join the Southeast Asia Treaty, but the U.S. military will also set up military bases there.”

Moscow lost, Washington gained.

This slap on the face hurts.

"So, I have said from the beginning that Nanyang is just an agent launched by the United States. If we come into direct conflict with Nanyang over the Siam issue, it will undoubtedly play into the hands of the United States, which is extremely disadvantageous to us!"

Khrushchev waved his hand and said.

"So, we need to exercise restraint there. The Siam incident has exposed many problems. Now we not only need to make up for those problems and avoid the recurrence of the Siam incident, but also..."

Looking directly at Motolov, Khrushchev knew very well that this guy represented certain forces that opposed him, and now they were just taking advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, so he had to give them a satisfactory answer, and let them see the results in the near future.

"We will respond, and we will respond in various places and in various ways, in Vietnam, on the peninsula, in Japan, in Jakarta, and in any other region, using various means and methods to respond!"

Then Khrushchev spoke again in an excited tone.

"Now, let the Americans be proud for a while. Didn't they suffer a loss in Vietnam? Siam is just an episode in our confrontation with the capitalist world. The Americans will not be proud for a few days. What will be waiting for them next?"

Khrushchev slapped the table hard, as if he was in another world, just like he was knocking on the UN conference table with his leather shoes, and spoke excitedly.

"Destruction! It will be destruction. We will definitely bury them! In the near future! We will bury the capitalist world completely."

The passionate words were just a cover-up for the pain of failure, and Khrushchev knew this better than anyone else. After Motolov left, he looked at the report in front of him about the United States entering Siam, and his face looked extremely ugly.

Finally, Khrushchev looked back at the report, which showed Rama returning to Bangkok and being welcomed by hundreds of thousands of people kneeling on their knees.
He muttered to himself as he realized that Siam had been completely lost.

"Siam, it's just the beginning..."

(End of this chapter)