PFC Chapter 1557 People who eat melons
Chapter 1557 People who eat melons
Chapter 1557 People who eat melons
"Os Continent has fallen? When was the news released?!"
Does this count as eating melons in one’s own home?
Soon, the news spread throughout Lu's team and attracted discussion and high attention from almost everyone.
Besides Lu Ping'an, he was still watching for fun and was a little confused.
"Uh, why are you so excited? Isn't it just Australia? Even if it's lost, does it have anything to do with us?"
Lu Ping'an was a little confused until he saw a series of shocked faces.
".We thought you were pretending to be ignorant of politics, but you are obviously very good at important policies."
"Oh, I see. You want to hear our opinions?"
Seeing this situation, someone gave Lu Ping'an a ladder and he had no choice but to listen obediently.
After listening to a few sentences, Lu Ping'an understood that this was a complete deviation between two world lines. After the "pollution boom" around the 1950s, those slight deviations continued to magnify.
The butterfly effect created a typhoon and gradually changed the two worlds. The tiny differences eventually turned into essential differences in the geopolitics of the two worlds.
"Red Star has not disintegrated, but it has inevitably shrunk. The Citigroup Federation is still strong, but its sphere of influence is mainly in the Americas and Aurobora, and its influence in Asia is limited."
These changes, in fact, are all due to one thing: "external pressure"
When a large amount of "pollution" appears in the world, public security naturally becomes a problem, and the cost of expansion increases significantly. Major countries can only manage the affairs around them.
World hegemony? Who wants to fight for this mess? Live a good life first.
Red Star can still survive because it did not expand blindly and did not get bogged down in the Middle East and Central Asia. Citi did not insert too much influence into those regions because there was no need for Red Star to fight to the death with it.
If you quit, I will naturally quit too. If you don't like it, I don't like it either. It's as simple and direct as that.
Although the Red Star inevitably declined due to some reasons, it did not fall to the point of disintegration of another world.
Of course, it is also because there are constant internal disputes in the Western countries where Citigroup is based, and they have neither the ability nor the mood to interfere too much in foreign countries.
The two powers still exist, but they are still just two powers rather than two hegemons. As a result, the living space of the East is freer than that of the other line. After development, it is natural to control the surrounding forces more within its own sphere of influence. This is also the reason why after the launch of the Nirvana Plan, the first batch of full support will be the roots of Southeast Asia, Sakurajima, Red Star and other surrounding forces. Now the East has naturally become the largest power core 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 so acute. When human beings are fighting for survival, internal strife naturally cannot become the main theme.
Looks good? No matter how good the situation and changes are, there are still victims. But I am afraid that only the time traveler Lu Ping'an knows that the biggest victim of this world line is Australia.
"The Oss were originally exiled to the west and were not well received. Their subsequent development was also mediocre."
This made Lu Ping'an a little confused, but after looking at the history, he realized the essential difference.
In fact, Australia is obviously closer to Asia. It is an isolated island overseas. Although it belongs to the Western forces, when the Western leader Citigroup is restricted to its own Americas, it naturally does not receive much attention.
As the two sides confronted each other, the front line naturally received attention and investment, but the momentum of the confrontation between the two sides was greatly weakened, and the front became a marginal area with little strategic value and ongoing risks.
". What's worse is that shipping in this world is extremely dangerous, and air transportation. There are only floating airships and no faster airplanes."
For an isolated island, it is naturally difficult to develop under such circumstances. They do have very good natural resources, including very high-quality agricultural products, but in the absence of smooth transportation, they can only produce and sell by themselves.
Naturally, a series of cycles such as overproduction, food price collapse, no one growing food, skyrocketing food prices, corporate monopoly, famine, etc. have happened several times, making the country like a free South American country in another world line.
Due to the inconvenient transportation, its suppressive effect on Asia has been greatly reduced, and it has not received any investment in military and industry. Even the local lords are willing to go to the safer America and Europe. Why should they go to the land of exile to watch kangaroos baring their teeth?
The end result is that it has never developed well, which has led to the weakening of the "official" system. The power vacuum has led to the rise of "corporate politics".
These local super companies in Oss have become the actual controllers of power, and naturally they only fight for their own interests. The local public order has deteriorated drastically.
At this time, it was revealed that Lu Ping'an had a "wrong understanding" of "modern countries" and "geopolitics" because he was 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. As a result, Western countries were unable to invest their power in it, making this region a hollow one. Power naturally hates hollowness. A certain Eastern power further north naturally incorporated it into its own economic and trade circle and it became the edge of its influence.
The world line is different. The Australia and Southeast Asia that Lu Ping'an is thinking of are other people's places, the traditional sphere of influence of the West. If they are rotten, so be it. Maybe Lu Ping'an will even open some champagne to celebrate.
If something really happened, shouldn't Citigroup stage a big movie and ask Western allies to come to the rescue? Just sit back and watch the fun.
The Australia that Hua Xueyi and the others thought of was a mixture of a barren land and lawless place, a marginal area of the West, while the archipelago and Southeast Asia further north had been the sphere of influence of the Eastern Country in recent years.
Now that Australia has fallen, the most panicked ones are Southeast Asia and the island countries. If they collapse as well, then the East will definitely be dragged down.
".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 Pakistani Federation, and then Sakurajima (Sakura Kingdom) and the Leighton Peninsula."
This time, Lu Ping'an understood.
In this world line, Australia has completely collapsed, and Citigroup will probably pretend not to see it. When the wound of this world begins to fester and bleed, the only ones who must take action to control it are the surrounding countries, and since they cannot solve the problem, it is only a matter of time before the great Eastern power is dragged into it.
"Uh, uh, uh, it seems like I will definitely be dragged into this."
After looking around, Lu Ping'an also felt numb.
If that position is really lost, the biggest headache will not be the land and islands, but the vast ocean.
In this world line, the island chain is not the western line of defense to contain the East, but the East’s own sphere of influence and line of defense.
Once it collapses, the East Country's own coastal areas will also be threatened.
As for the coast of the East Country, Lu Ping'an pointed and pointed until he reached the southernmost point on the map, a place he was familiar with.
In other words, the "hometown" of the force to which one belongs.
"Dragon Moon Island"
Wailongzhou is one of the southernmost states in Dongguo, and it is also the southernmost island area in Dongguo.
The most helpless thing is that it is actually the main territory of the Southern Faction of the Linnu Church and the hometown of a number of bigwigs including Old Liu.
"Oh my god, this melon eater has eaten his own house!!"
"You just found out about this?!"