It seems that standing with the Soviet Union and supporting India is not something that can be achieved by the special relationship between Britain and the United States, but it is naturally reasonable to do so.

Because Pakistan is backed by the United States, can Britain support Pakistan with the United States? If such a choice is made, Britain's influence will only be slowly replaced by the United States.

In fact, it is very simple. The United States can be regarded as an enhanced version of the United Kingdom, whether it is policy orientation, military deployment or all aspects. What the UK is good at, the US is good at and can do better.

Now that both India and Pakistan have become independent, the United Kingdom cannot stand with the Americans if it does not withdraw its troops from the Middle East and withstand the overwhelming economic strength of the United States.

Supporting Pakistan will offend India, and the United States may not care if it offends India. Britain does not have such a big plate as the United States to offset losses.

Informing Washington of the attitude of the Stockholm meeting also shows that Britain did not reach a secret agreement with the Soviet Union, but made a choice entirely out of national interests.

Although Pakistan can be used as a **** to check and balance India, it must also be clear that Pakistan does not have the strength to defeat India head-on. At the moment when the United States is responding to the Vietnam War, it occupies hundreds of square kilometers of land, which has caused India to hold grudges. It is also not in line with the United States. interests, if the war resumes, can the United States still help Pakistan? Even if it can, it will only consume energy on the Vietnam issue.

Once he succeeds in persuading the United States to abandon Pakistan and cut off Pakistan's backing, Alan Wilson has reason to believe that a troop withdrawal agreement is not far away.

Rabo Butler immediately went to the Indian representative to talk about the fact that Britain firmly stood in India this time, and looked forward to maintaining the traditional relationship with this pearl of the British Empire.

"Mother, are you socializing these days?" Gerstaff asked Greta Garbo when he saw Greta Garbo looking in the mirror as soon as he got home.

"Study hard, and don't worry about things you can't solve." Greta Garbo glanced back at her son, with the expression on her face that I advised you to mind your own business, and then took out the mink coat and put it on, "Compared to Your father is much more annoying, they are all men, why can't you think about it more."

What does this have to do with men? Gustav opened his mouth and finally kept silent. If his mother hadn't said categorically that he was his own, he would have doubted whether he was adopted.

But even so, he couldn't hear any news about his biological father from his mother. He only knew that there was, but he couldn't meet him.

"Mother, be safe." Looking at Greta Garbo's back, Gustav said weakly.

"Cook your own food, you're so old, learn to manage your own life." Greta Garbo didn't turn her head, and said a few casual words to Hao Daer, and then there was a heavy closing sound of the door.

"But having said that, aren't you going to let your son know of my existence?" Alan Wilson pondered for a moment, and asked a lady of the same status as his wife in a tone of asking for advice, "If he wants, I can issue a letter of introduction , go to Oxford University to study and study, and the road ahead will be much easier.”

"No need for now, I can take care of it." Greta Garbo calmly refused, "The Royal Institute of Technology is not difficult for Lovisa. I can do it through Erlander."

"Oh, the Prime Minister of Sweden, he seems to have been prime minister for 20 years. It is a miracle in an electoral system." Alan Wilson changed the subject when he said this, "You have nothing to do with him, you two are the same age, maybe This **** has unrealistic ideas about you, and I'm going to check him out."

Before he finished speaking, he wrapped his arms around the neck of the supreme authority with ease, and then pressed it down without hesitation.

For some reason, Alan Wilson always felt that he had seen the young man next to the Soviet foreign minister. After recalling it for a long time, the super memory made the supreme authority suddenly realize that this was not the KGB officer he had seen in Lubyanka Square. Well, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a legal spy, which is not surprising.

"He recognized me." Alekseev didn't look directly at the Englishman across from him, but he could feel that the men surrounded by him secretly looked at him several times. The supreme authority has a good memory, and the czar's son's memory is not fake either. He is younger and has never met a few British people in total. Of course, he still remembers the familiar faces opposite.

"We have also received the attitude of Washington. They also believe that it is the best result for the two countries to evacuate the occupied land and restore it to its original state. Because the temporarily occupied land of several hundred square kilometers is in the midst of long-term hostility, which is not in line with the requirements of the two countries. Interests."

Rabo Butler conveyed the views of the United States, vaguely summarizing the essence of this meeting with the interests of the two countries. It can be the interests of India and Pakistan, as well as the interests of Britain and the Soviet Union.

There is no doubt that Britain and the Soviet Union still have common interests in supporting India. Gromyko nodded and expressed the same meaning, "The world is in turmoil now, and we cannot let another place shake the mainstream of peace. gone."

"The world is in turmoil. Isn't there a credit for the Soviet Union?" Dixon murmured to Alan Wilson in a low voice, "There was no shadow of the Soviet Union in the Vietnam War?"

"That is a matter of the United States and the Soviet Union, and has nothing to do with us." Alan Wilson replied in a low voice, "On the South Asian issue, we still cannot evade the responsibility of the United Kingdom."

Not to mention that India has not yet formally voted for the Soviet Union, even if it really voted, Britain cannot give up India. Thinking of this, Alan Wilson asked, "John has news that the Arab world will not lift the oil embargo for the time being. After the negotiation is over, wait until India is in difficulty, and you arrange someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to talk to India. South Sudan’s oil should be needed in India. The price is of course a bit more expensive, but compared to the transportation cost from the United States or the Soviet Union, Still a good deal."

From the perspective of the United Kingdom, regardless of the Vietnam War, the United States will not be able to withstand that day. Malaya is at risk of being attacked by the North and the South, and it is not too late to consider the impact of the Vietnam War.

Britain could only try its best to keep India from voting for the Soviet Union on the South Asian issue, and if it was inevitable, Britain's interests should also be preserved as much as possible.

In fact, this is not easy. If you think about the value of the Soviet Union itself, the Kingdom of Afghanistan has long been pro-Soviet. Although Daoud is no longer the prime minister, his political influence has not dissipated.

In other words, the Soviet Union seems to be far away from India, but in fact it is not so far away. In consideration of containing Pakistan, it is a certainty for India to try to contact the Soviet Union more.

Can the UK stop it? The UK actually doesn’t have many ways to make decisions based on geographical considerations. Now it can only choose to try to hold India back. After all, the UK is a country with a completely different system from the Soviet Union. Some things the Soviet Union is not good at Britain is good at it, and you can also try a fight with the Soviets on the Indus River.

I am afraid that if we encounter a country like the United States, where the United States is good at things that the United States is good at, then there will be no fight at all, so the United Kingdom must support India. Both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary agreed on this point.

What if the Soviet Union adopts the method of supporting the Kingdom of Afghanistan to overthrow the Durand Line, and joins India in partitioning Pakistan? Although this did not happen in history, it should be guarded against it. Britain's hold on India also meant to sabotage this attempt.

When Pakistan applied to join the United Nations, Afghanistan cast the only negative vote. Since this risk existed, it was naturally used by the United Kingdom to persuade the United States in this meeting to force Pakistan to compromise. The United States was obviously persuaded. Once India If the Kingdom of Afghanistan really had a joint attempt to hostile to Pakistan, the Soviet Union would have really reached a strategy of cutting off the Eurasian continent in the middle, and this kind of confrontation could not continue.

In the following month, the Stockholm meeting mainly focused on the Kashmir referendum to determine the future direction of the negotiations. Britain and the Soviet Union still had the same attitude. Blurring this issue is actually not supporting Pakistan's claim ~lightnovelpub.net~ and adopting an attitude of covering up India's claim.

In the process of reaching a consensus with the Soviet Union as soon as possible, Alan Wilson had to take out a certain big country to block bullets, saying that the so-called allies of the Soviet Union were rebellious and supported Pakistan on the Kashmir issue.

On the contrary, the Soviet Union should stand on India's side, just like Britain. Only in this way is it in the common interest of Britain and the Soviet Union.

In dealing with Pakistan, the United Kingdom adopts an attitude of covert intimidation. Pakistan should not think that this oil embargo will help Pakistan gain much advantage. The British Royal Navy is fully capable, and it also adopted an embargo to give Pakistan a taste of India's treatment.

The United States has imposed an arms embargo on Pakistan before, which led to a truce. If Pakistan is disobedient, the United States will also stand on the side of the United Kingdom, because the United Kingdom is running for peace.

For the United States, it is Washington's pursuit to quell the instability in South Asia as soon as possible, and it doesn't matter how the peace agreement is reached. Things have come to this point, Pakistan has learned that nothing will be gained.

After more than a month of mediation, intimidation, and weighing the pros and cons, Indian Prime Minister Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan expressed their willingness to meet and took a special plane to Stockholm.

It was at this time that the Stockholm meeting entered the real highlight. In one day, British Prime Minister Eden and Soviet Council of Ministers Chairman Kosygin announced successively that they would visit Stockholm.

In this way, the Stockholm meeting became a meeting where the heads of the four countries of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, India, and Pakistan gathered. The host Erlander was naturally unwilling to give up this opportunity to show his face. Although he has been the prime minister for 20 years, who would If it is too long, if he can be re-elected, he still has to fight for it. Such an important meeting itself is a political asset.