Of course, it takes time to break through this kind of ice that has been frozen for more than ten years and requires efforts from each other. For the thawing of relations between the United States and the United States is a good thing in the long run. The cooperation between the United States and Germany is not long, and there has always been wariness between the two sides. According to Ruprecht's estimate, if the Pacific War comes to an end, the honeymoon period between the two sides will probably end. By then, after there is no means of checks and balances between each other, the United States will definitely start playing the so-called mainland balance policy like the British. If the French surrender to Germany, then the only major Western European powers that the Americans can win over will be British, and the British will naturally form an alliance with the Americans in order to fight against Germany. If this happens, Germany will be in trouble!

But in the short term, if the British choose to ease relations with the Americans, then this side effect will be great! Americans are not stupid. If the British want to ease relations with the Americans, they must do something practical. For the United States, which is fighting in the Pacific, the greatest value of Britain is nothing more than Australia and the UK's cutting-edge base in the Pacific region.

However, if the British choose to stand on the side of the Americans, they will naturally stand on the opposite side of the Japanese! It is necessary for the Japanese to take revenge, and it is even possible to attack the British colonies in Southeast Asia! At this time, can the British defend their rights by force? The answer is a bit difficult! Not to mention that the war had just ended, the British needed to lick their wounds, nor do they say that after the British North Sea War, the British Royal Navy could still have a few warships left. Simply speaking, the British compensation for Germany was a huge burden for the post-war Britain!

You should know that Ruprecht's plan is to start the UK to compensate at least 200 million pounds per year! This is the currency before the war! Each pound must contain more than 7 grams of gold! And Germany has enough power to allow the British to match the money even if they are pants! So good, a simple question is, where does the British get the money to pay the compensation while paying the war funds?

As for asking the Americans to help advance payment? This is theoretically feasible, but in fact it is very difficult. After all, war is just about making money. The Americans' ocean-going combat costs are definitely not small, and the few British people are not as simple as tens of millions of dollars! It is a compensation of up to 200 million yuan per year, and there is interest every year! Why did the United States give the British 500 million US dollars a year during the war? Just to advance some bases? This is obviously a loss-making deal! If you give the Germans, the prince can guarantee that the Japanese fleet will not have to worry about the Americans, and the High Seas Fleet will help you deal with it!

So, at the beginning of the war, the British lacked resistance to the risks in the Far East, and at the same time they lacked enough benefits to transfer to the Americans. It can even be said that if Britain was preparing to cooperate with the Americans, Japan would have taken action against the British colonies in the Pacific before the two sides signed the agreement? It was a bragging to take Australia, but it was no problem to take down the area on New Guinea Island. There were also places such as Sarawak (East Malaysia in later generations) in the northwest of Kalimantan and Malaya in the Southeast Peninsula (Western Malaysia in later generations) and Malaya in the colonies of the British Empire. So if the British wanted to defect to the Americans, they had to consider the losses of their colonial rights!

Of course, in the short term, the British felt that eased relations with the United States did not have much benefit or that it was difficult for both sides to get close due to excessive pressure, which only reduced the possibility of the United States and Britain getting close. In fact, the two sides could still cooperate in some aspects, such as American businessmen and British doing business during the war. Britain could persist until now, and was still not trapped to death in the face of partial blockade of German submarines, which were stronger than history, and the Americans still made great contributions... The United States is not just delivering supplies to Germany!

Therefore, in order to prevent the two sides from getting closer, Ruprecht still has some things to do! That is to allow Britain and Japan to continue to maintain their friendship in this war! That's right, to put it bluntly, it is to inherit the international relations that were originally in the Battle of the Philippines again, the British help the Japanese, and the German help the Americans!

In the short term, it is the most cost-effective for the British to help the Japanese. The Japanese need a lot of supplies, transportation and weapons to fight the United States. The British can give these things, such as the rubber, tin and non-ferrous metals in Sarawak, oil, British navy warships and surplus materials after the war, as well as the strong shipbuilding capabilities and remaining fleets of Britain. These things have very important strategic significance for Japan, especially the surplus materials after the war. In fact, whether it is the warships of the large fleet or the artillery in the army, it is more like a burden to the British after the war. However, the Japanese can exchange a large amount of real money for these already outdated things from Britain. After all, Japan's industry cannot be compared with the British.

So, Britain and Japan each took their own needs, and the British provided weapons, materials and technology for Japan, and the Japanese sent the money they earned in the war to the British's pockets! As for what Americans would think? There are certain ideas, but they will never be implemented! Americans can't use their limited fleet in the Pacific and Japan, and Britain in the Atlantic, right? Ruprecht was happy to see such a result! It is Germany's consistent policy to make the distance between the United States and Britain as large as possible! Therefore, even if Germany has the ability to stop it, Ruprecht would not do it. It can even be said that the confrontation between the British and Japanese alliances and the United States-German alliance is of great significance to maintaining the Far East and maintaining Germany's better foreign strategic system...

Well, according to this principle, in Ruprecht's setting, Britain cannot be too weak. It must make the British realize that although they were defeated this time, they still have the possibility of standing up again, even if it is just an illusion! If the British were weakened particularly badly, and they chose to surrender, or even willing to give up the Far East and Oceania, then there would be no pressure to surrender to the Americans, just as France, which decided to become a second-rate country, was willing to give up hostility to Germany!

Therefore, it is precisely for this starting point that Ruprecht is willing to let the British retain most of India. Even if the war is victorious, Germany will not consider the entire India in a short period of time - the most dazzling jewel in the crown of the British Empire! At least we must leave some thoughts and coffin books for the British Empire, right?

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