Chapter 918 Latin America
The top leaders in Washington also wanted to stop the war and negotiate. Even if the war could not be ended, it would be good if it could be delayed for two or three years. However, according to the conditions proposed by the Germans, most of these top leaders would have to be taken to Europe to be tried by the European War Court, and they would most likely be sentenced as war criminals.
Under such circumstances, who would agree to this damn peace talk? They could only bite the bullet and fight to the end.
But the problem is that the United States would suffer the loss if they continued to fight hard, and the losses the United States has suffered so far are simply incalculable.
The gold "robbed" by the Germans and the rare treasures in the museum; tons of supplies sent to the Soviet Union but eventually became cheap for the Far East and Germany; hundreds of thousands of expeditionary troops trapped in the Soviet Union; the sunken fleets and fighters/bombers shot down; countless crew members and pilots who died in the battle, they are not something that can be trained. And the major cities and industrial areas in the United States that have been bombed since the outbreak of the war.
What makes them most distressed is the loss of the entire Latin America except Mexico!
As mentioned above, the United States regards Latin America as its own backyard. As early as the eve of World War II, the United States' influence in Latin America had far exceeded that of other European countries and ranked first. American monopoly capital has carried out crazy economic plunder and control on Latin American countries, squeezed the wealth of Latin American countries, and hindered the development of these countries. The Wall Street monopoly group even regards Latin America as their private territory, a suitable investment place, and a supplier of raw materials, fuel and cheap labor.
A financial tycoon on Wall Street once said. "As an export market for the United States, Latin America is as important to the United States as the whole of Europe. It is more important than Asia, Africa and Oceania combined. As a source of imported resources for the United States, the importance of the Latin American republics to the United States is even far greater than that of Europe or any other continent."
The United States has various ways of infiltrating the Latin American economy, from expanding investment, loans, import and export trade and technical assistance: signing trade agreements, seizing economic privileges, opening subsidiaries, and even "buy less and sell more", "buy cheap and sell expensive", and using all means; through these methods, American monopoly capital is omnipresent.
After the Panama Conference in September 1939, the United States established the Inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory Committee in Washington under the pretext of strengthening mutual assistance and cooperation among American countries. Then, the United States made large investments in Latin America in the name of providing funds, equipment, and technical assistance. According to statistics, between 1941 and 1945, the loans of the US "Export-Import Bank" to Latin American countries accounted for 34% of the bank's total foreign loans; in 1945 alone, it loaned US$7.5 billion.
After the outbreak of World War II, Latin American countries’ contacts with Europe were interrupted (within a month after the Pearl Harbor incident, Central American and Caribbean countries, including Cuba, Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, all declared war on the Axis powers. At the American Foreign Ministers’ Conference held in Rio de Janeiro in January 1942, all countries except Argentina and Chile agreed to sever diplomatic relations with the Axis powers. Until January 1945, Argentina, under the pressure of the entire world situation, also very reluctantly broke off relations with Germany on the surface), which greatly benefited the United States economically. In the first year of the war alone, the exports of Latin American countries to Europe dropped sharply by 50%; on the contrary, the proportion of the United States in the total imports of Latin America increased from 5% in 1939 to 4% in 1940, and to 2% in 1945.
An assistant for Latin American affairs at the US State Department said a very interesting thing. "The United States and our brother republics are closely connected. From the morning when you wake up and drink Brazilian or Colombian coffee until late at night when your wife opens your glass of fine Viagra cans, they are inseparable from us. You sleep on a bed made of Chilean bronze or brass. Venezuelan oil gives you electricity. In your car there are batteries from Mexico. You eat Cuban sugar, Costa Rican bananas, Haitian liqueurs. You wear a scarf made of Peruvian wool and a dress made of Uruguayan wool. Your carpet is made of Argentine wool. The chocolate candies your children eat are made of Ecuadorian cocoa. In a word, your welfare depends on our relationship with Latin America. Without Latin America, many of your big companies will have a hard time making ends meet, and even if you can get the raw materials, the value is very expensive. Your breakfast without coffee and sugar is pitiful. Finally, how can your son fight without weapons made of Latin American raw materials?"
And now the Germans have landed in Latin America, directly cutting off Latin America's connection with the United States and beginning to eliminate American forces in Latin America.
The means were so swift, efficient and cruel that it was outrageous!
The pro-American forces in most Latin American countries were uprooted in a very short time, and all these pro-American elements were thrown into the concentration camps that would never see the light of day. If the Americans could not counterattack and take back Latin America from the Germans, these guys would have to work in the concentration camps until they died.
As for the countries that refused to obey, such as Brazil, Germany did not need to do it itself. The surrounding countries such as Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, etc., which had purchased a large number of German weapons and equipment, had already begun to prepare and concentrated heavy troops on their respective borders. The air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, as if a spark could cause a big explosion.
What’s even worse is that under Germany’s “instigation”, Latin American countries have announced that all the investments, loans and any forms of trade agreements they had previously obtained from the United States are invalid!
In this way, the billions of loans lent by the US “Export-Import Bank” alone have gone down the drain, and the rest of the investors have lost all their money.
You don’t accept it? If you don’t accept it, go and tell my new big brother? ! If you don’t dare, just hold it in! !
For a time, a large number of investors were depressed and committed suicide; even the financial tycoons on Wall Street collectively vomited blood.
Therefore, the US peace talks included conditions such as “the complete withdrawal of German troops from Latin America, maintaining the ‘Monroe Doctrine’ of America for Americans”, “no cession of territory”, and “the United States will deal with war criminals on its own”.
The funny thing is that these conditions are only passed on among the top leaders of the United States, and have not yet, or dare not, been formally submitted to the German side. Lest the Germans get angry and bomb a few more American cities.
Vice President Truman sighed with great melancholy and spoke slowly. "Maybe we should talk to the Germans again. Apart from the cession of territory and the issue of war criminals, other issues can be negotiated, right?"