Soon, the news spread throughout Lu's team and aroused discussion and great attention from almost everyone.
Apart from Lu Ping'an, he was still having fun and still didn't understand.
"Well, why are you so excited? Isn't it Osland (Australia)? Even if it is lost, does it have anything to do with us?"
Lu Ping'an couldn't understand it until he saw shocked faces.
"We thought you were just pretending not to understand politics. You are obviously very good at important policies."
"Oh oh oh, I understand, do you want to hear our opinions?"
Seeing this situation, someone gave him a ladder, and Lu Pingping could only listen honestly.
After listening to a few sentences, Lu Pingan understood that this was completely a deviation between the two world lines. After the "pollution boom" around the 1950s, those slight deviations continued to amplify.
The butterfly effect threw up a typhoon and gradually changed the two worlds. A small difference eventually turned into the essential difference in geopolitics between the two worlds.
"Red Star has not disintegrated, but it is inevitable to shrink. Citigroup Federation is still strong, but its scope of influence is mainly on the American continent and Europa, and is limited to Asia."
These changes, in fact, are all about the same thing - "external pressure"
When there is a lot of "pollution" in the world, public security will naturally become a problem, and the cost of expansion will also increase significantly, and major countries can only manage the things around them.
World hegemon? Who wants to fight for this mess? He should live well first.
Red Star can still survive because it did not expand blindly and did not penetrate into the Middle East. Central Asia was mired in quagmire. Citigroup did not insert too much power in those areas. It is also because Red Star did not need to fight with its root cause.
If you quit, I will quit as well. If you don’t like it, I won’t like it either. It’s such a simple and direct reason.
Although the Red Star inevitably declined due to some reasons, it did not fall to the level of the disintegration of another world.
Of course, this is also because Citigroup and other Western countries have constant fireworks in their own hometowns, and have neither the ability nor the mood to interfere in too many foreign countries.
The two powers still exist, but they are still just two powers and not two hegemons. In addition, the living space of Dongda is freer than that of the other line. After developing, it is natural to control the surrounding forces more under their own influence.
Within the scope, this is also the reason why after the launch of the Nirvana Project, the first batch of full support will be Southeast Asia, Sakurajima, Red Star and other surrounding forces. Now Dongguo has naturally become the largest core force in the local area.
The Cold War, or the confrontation between the two forces, still exists, but due to the existence of external pressure, it is not as sharp. When human beings are fighting for their survival, internal fighting will naturally not become the main theme.
Looks good? No matter how good the situation and changes are, there will still be victims, but I am afraid only those who have traveled safely will know that the biggest victim in this world line is Australia.
"Ossians were originally exiled in the West and were not welcomed, and their subsequent development was also average."
This made Lu Pingan a little confused, but after looking at the history, he noticed the essential difference.
In fact, Australia is closer to Asia, which is an isolated island overseas. Although it belongs to Western forces, when Citigroup, the leader of the West, is restricted to its own surroundings in the Americas, it naturally does not receive much attention.
When the two sides confront each other, the front line will naturally receive attention and investment. However, the momentum of the confrontation between the two sides has been greatly weakened, and the front line has become a borderland with little strategic value and risks.
"What's even worse is that shipping in this world is very dangerous, while air transportation only has floating airships and no faster aircraft."
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It is very difficult for an isolated island to develop naturally under such a situation. They do have very good natural resources and very high-quality agricultural products, but when transportation is not smooth, they can only produce and sell them themselves.
Naturally, a series of cycles such as overproduction, collapse of food prices, no one to plant crops, skyrocketing food prices, corporate monopoly, famine, etc. have happened several times, and the situation has been like a free country in South America in another world.
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Also due to the inconvenience of transportation, its suppressive effect on Asia has been greatly reduced, and there is no military or industrial investment. It is the local big bosses who are also willing to go to safer America and Europe. Why go to the place of exile to see kangaroos?
Baring teeth.
The final result is that it never develops well, and the accompanying weakening of "officials" and the power vacuum allow for the rise of "corporate politics".
These Osborne super companies have become de facto controllers of power, and naturally they only fight for their own interests. The local public order has extremely deteriorated.
At this time, it reflects Lu Pingan's "wrong understanding" of "modern countries" and "geopolitics" because he is too lazy to pay attention.
He never realized that because Australia itself was too weak, it lacked influence on the island countries to the north and South Asia. In addition, the Western countries were unable to invest their own power in it, making this area a hollow power.
Naturally hating the hollow, a certain eastern power further north naturally included it into its own economic and trade circle, becoming the fringe of its influence.
The world lines are different. The Australia and Southeast Asia that Lu Pingan thinks of are other people's places, the traditional sphere of influence of the West. If they die, they will die. Maybe Lu Pingan will open a champagne to celebrate.
Is something really wrong? Shouldn't we stage a Citi blockbuster and let Western allies come to the rescue? Just enjoy it for yourself.
The Australia that Hua Xueyi and the others thought of was a mixture of a land of birds and lawless people, a marginal area of the West, while the islands further north and Southeast Asia were the sphere of influence of the Eastern Kingdom in recent years.
Now that Australia has fallen, the most panicked ones are Southeast Asia and the island countries. If they also collapse, the country that will be dragged down next will definitely be the Eastern Kingdom.
"You see, if all of Australia really fell, they would definitely go north. At that time, the Alliance of Islands (Indonesia and the Pacific Islands) would be the first to suffer, followed by the South Asian countries, the Commonwealth of Pakistan, and then Sakurajima (Sakura Island).
Kingdom) and the Leighton Peninsula”
Now, Lu Pingping understood.
On this world line, Australia is completely collapsed, and Citigroup will probably pretend not to see it. When the wounds in this world begin to bleed, the only ones that must be controlled are the surrounding countries, and they cannot solve it.
The problem is, it is only a matter of time before the big eastern countries are involved.
"Uh, uh, uh, it seems that I will definitely be involved."
After looking around, Lu Pingping felt numb.
If that position is really lost, the biggest headache is not even the land and islands, but the vast ocean.
On this world line, the island chain is not the western defense line that contains the Eastern Kingdom, but the Eastern Kingdom's own sphere of influence and defense line.
Once it collapses, Dongguo's own coastal areas will also be threatened.
And Dongguo Haiping Road pointed safely and pointed to the southernmost point on the map, a place he was familiar with.
In other words, the "hometown" of the force to which one belongs.
"Longyue Island"
Wailongzhou is one of the southernmost states of the Eastern Kingdom. It is also the southernmost island area of the Eastern Kingdom.
The most helpless thing is that in a real sense, it is the main territory of the southern faction of Lin Nu Church, the hometown of a group of big bosses including Mr. Liu.