The Third Reich: The Return of the King

The Russians were originally a small country that originated in Eastern Europe. After continuous external expansion, they became what they are today.

The Russians have an extremely fanatical pursuit of land, and this pursuit has reached a perverted point where they have fought wars with all their neighboring countries!

And the Russians are indeed very capable. They have won most of their wars of external expansion. Except for the Turkish chicken, they were blocked by the British Empire and Gaul and defeated several times.

The result of winning the conquest war is that the land area of the Russians has expanded rapidly.

For those good, bad, big, and small countries, they either coerced or bribed them, or directly sent troops to attack. Over a period of hundreds of years, they have almost annexed all the small countries around them.

A typical example is Central Asia.

Central Asia is vast and sparsely populated. In ancient times, it was where nomadic people lived. It was cold in winter and hot in summer. Because it is located in the central area of the world island, the ocean currents and water vapor from all directions cannot drift here, making the rainfall here very low and the local climate conditions very dry.

This has made agriculture here not very developed and unable to feed too many people.

Therefore, facing the invasion of the Russian army, the small countries and tribes here have no room to fight back. They are either defeated and annexed by the other side. Or simply surrender and choose to surrender to the other side.

However, the people in these areas are not really convinced by the Russians.

When the Russians are strong, they may bow their heads and lie on the ground to surrender.

But once the Russians are weak, they will jump up and join the rebellion against the Russians like other conquered areas.

This happened once in 1917.

The failure of World War I, coupled with the two huge upheavals of the February Revolution and the October Revolution, greatly weakened the national strength of the Russian Bear.

The decline of national strength and internal turmoil made those countries and regions that had been conquered by the Russian Bear ask for independence from the Russian Bear.

Historically, the main reason why the Red Bear has so many member states is that these member states took advantage of the weakness of the Russian Bear after World War I and became independent from the Russian Bear.

Although after the establishment of the Red Bear, they could conquer these countries with their own powerful military force.

However, after the war with Poland ended, the Russian Bear realized that the cost of conquering by force was too high and there was also the risk of failure.

Therefore, the Russian Bear changed its strategy and recognized their national status, but hoped that they would rejoin the Russian Bear family as a member state.

This method can avoid war, integrate the power of these regions that once belonged to the Russian Bear as much as possible, and help the Red Bear recover from the aftermath of the First World War as soon as possible.

To be honest, this method was very helpful in the early days of the establishment of the Red Bear.

It paved the way for the development of the bears, won time, and prevented them from consuming more energy and time in the civil war.

However, this method also laid a huge foreshadowing for the disintegration of the bears in the future.

Because these countries have now become countries!

Historically, when the bears disintegrated, the first to become independent were the three Baltic countries that were forcibly annexed by them.

And the independence of these three countries, like pushing dominoes, caused the behemoth of the bears to collapse and become history.

Mainz feels very headache about Central Asia.

This place is too far away for the Third Reich!

Moreover, Central Asia is vast and sparsely populated, dry and rainy, and lacks resources. Except for several countries in the Caucasus that have oil, other countries have no resources and no arable land.

So from a practical point of view, Central Asia is simply chicken ribs and has limited value.

However, if considered from the strategic point of view of controlling the world island, Central Asia has to be controlled by the empire!

After all, if we control Central Asia, when our national strength is enhanced in the future, we can build intercontinental railways, directly connect Asia and Europe, and completely open up the world island with railways.

Compared with sea transportation, the price of railway transportation may be higher, but the speed is much faster.

If we send a train from Western Europe to the Far East at an ordinary speed of 60 kilometers per hour, even if we exclude the driver’s rest and the maintenance and upkeep of the train, it only takes about 7-15 days to go there.

And the freighter departing from Western Europe, even if it goes through the Suez Canal, will arrive in the Far East at least 40 days later!

If we use railways, the time saved is at least twice as much!

Moreover, the military significance of railways is greater than that of sea transportation. The area radiated by railways is much larger than that of sea transportation. Within its radiation range, as long as there is an army, it can control this large area.

Therefore, wherever the railway passes, the local forces cannot compete with the military power of the empire. They can only surrender to the empire and cannot fight against it, because fighting is a dead end!

If the railway is to be built, it must pass through Central Asia. In this case, if Central Asia is not controlled, the safety of the railway cannot be guaranteed.

If the safety of the railway line connecting the Far East cannot be guaranteed, the empire’s control over the Far East will be greatly reduced.

The influence of the navy is far less than that of the army when facing a big country!

Therefore, from a big overall strategic perspective, Central Asia must be taken.

So, is there any way to reduce the consumption of the empire as much as possible while bringing Central Asia under the control of the empire?

Mainz has the idea of the bear people!

Denikin’s bear government exists as a puppet regime of the bear.

But because the bear is too big, even if the empire takes Eastern Europe away from the bear’s territory, they still own more than 14 million square kilometers of vast land.

Therefore, it is imperative to further weaken them!

Let Starlin go, let Starlin occupy the Far East, block the expansion of the bear to the east, and block their way to the south. In this way, the bear can only contact and trade with the empire in the west.

Therefore, the Caucasus and Central Asia must be included in the territory of the empire, or support another puppet regime to split them from the bear!

Thinking of this, Mainz drew a few strokes on the map and divided the bear into five.

Eastern Europe was included in the territory of the empire, the border area between Europe and Asia was the bear puppet regime, and the Far East was handed over to Starlin and his remaining red bears, letting them fight with the bear puppet regime, exerting external pressure on them, and forcing them to move closer to the empire.

After the empire destroyed the native chicken, the Caucasus and Asia Minor area would support a puppet state again, or the empire would directly control it.