Chapter 1606: Seven. Travel to the Republic (4)

"Empires don't care about face or process. They only care about results. They are the best engineers, soldiers, actuaries, and the worst realists and resultsists."
Looking through the documents sent from the Republic, Roland said solemnly:
"If you think that one or two small setbacks can make them stand down, I am afraid they will suffer a lot."
"Wise-minded people know this. The problem is that the clear-minded are always a few, and they are always regarded as aliens or even heretics."
Fafna put down the notice in her hand and spread her hands helplessly.
The document in Roland’s hand is about the latest progress of the Republic in the multilateral diplomatic negotiations, and Favna’s hand is the report on the latest public opinion trends within the Republic. By overlapping these two things, no one who is optimistic can only Cheek smiled bitterly.
The diplomatic talks are good news, because the end of the terrorist attacks and the subsequent war of public opinion, and in response to the anti-imperial public opinion wave that may erupt at any time, the performance of the imperial delegation is much lower-key than before. No longer insist on some issues involving sovereignty. But they have always insisted on limiting the maritime power of the Republic-whether it is formal or informal. At the same time, it insists on the right to "free navigation and patrol" overseas within 12 nautical miles of the Republic, and has the right to conduct temporary inspections on military and civilian vessels of the Republic at any time on the high seas. Once illegal acts are found, the Empire can arrest and arrest the vessel.
In Roland's view, the imperial requirements are of course harsh, and in fact, they just confirm the status quo in the form of legal provisions. Regardless of whether the Republic agrees, the imperial navy is actually doing this, the Republic is unable to prevent this, and in order to avoid further escalation of the conflict to the Empire, they also have to look at their own fishermen, militia and merchant ships to avoid having their heads hot. What incidents are difficult to manage.
Despite the humiliation at the moment, Roland believes that as long as the wave of public opinion that the nations condemn the empire starts, the empire will eventually make some concessions. Although it is impossible to remove all unequal clauses, at least the Republic and the Empire can jointly enforce the law to ensure a certain degree of autonomy. As for the more critical arms control negotiations, because the specific demands of the empire and the nations are not yet known, it can only be done today.
It can be said that from now until the arms control treaty is reached, it is an extremely delicate and dangerous moment. It is not an exaggeration to say that this period of time will directly determine the fate of the Republic and the entire world in the next hundred years. During this period of time, leaders and bureaucrats of various countries must be trembling and performing on thin ice. I am afraid that one step of mistakes will directly affect the destiny of the country. The pressure can be imagined.
But this pressure is also limited to the highest level of reason and direct parties. For ordinary people and political practitioners who only want to win elections, they do not feel the weight at all.
"Li Lin wrote such a sentence to me through Kaspar:'Politicians in the election society will not plan things beyond a term, the media is only staring at things that can become a topic, and the people except the immediate Problems and policy promises, I don’t see anything that is one metre away from me.

"He really speaks ready-made words."
Favna snapped the table with an anxiety, her face full of frustration and do not look away.
After dealing with Li Lin for so long, she has long been accustomed to Li Lin's sharp comments and ridiculous mockery, and it is impossible to get angry just because of such a cynicism. What made Favna angry was that the actions of the political parties and people of the Republic simply echoed Li Lin's teasing.
As Li Lin said, political speculators, the media, and voters—the vast majority of these democracies do not know what it means to look at the problem from a long-term strategic perspective. Due to the limitations of ability, knowledge, and demeanor, as well as personal selfishness, they are only staring at what they see and their personal interests. They only have a simple, emotional, and rural-style cognition of what is the overall pattern of international strategy and what is geostrategic balance. Many views are either ridiculous or inexplicable in the eyes of professionals, and sometimes extremely dangerous.
For example, there is an argument that the last Charlemagne defeat was not a crime of war, but that when evil monsters (of course, the emperor) attacked from the front, those countries that were secretly safe and traitors hidden inside the kingdom The spies stabbed from the back. Only when the internal and external enemies attacked each other, this great country was defeated unfortunately, bearing the bitter consequences of the defeat.
In some respects, this argument is true. For example, Charlemagne is indeed full of Yalfheim’s eyes and animals trying to sell the country’s interests. With the help of these traitors, Yalfheim can always Achieve the expected strategic and tactical goals. But whether it is the cause of the defeat or the specific process of the war has seriously deviated from the facts, let alone this argument avoids a very critical issue, that is, the war was provoked by Charlemagne, regardless of whether Alfheim was in it. What role did they play and what role did they play, Charlemagne’s own responsibility for war was inevitable. But in this myth of "behind the sword", people didn't see only a few words about the cause and responsibility of war, they only saw a tragic story, a knight lost his due victory because of betrayal and betrayal, suffered tragic and unfair Defeated.
It is foreseeable what attitude other countries will have on this bizarre theory, and how such an argument will affect the future diplomacy of the Republic.
Perhaps people will be surprised that most of the citizens of the Republic have experienced the entire process of Charlemagne from the rise to the demise~EbookFREE.me~ Even if the bottom people have limited access to information, it is impossible to treat every detail of the war process like the senior military and political leaders Knowing everything, they should also understand that Charlemagne started the war against the cannibalizing whales in the surrounding countries, and the unfought battle against Albion officially opened the door to hell. Their suffering today is precisely the retribution that Charlemagne had previously provoked to war and put war on other countries. Why do some people still believe in this wonderful theory?
In fact, this is not surprising. It is human nature to seek benefits and avoid harm. When people are trapped in hardship and humiliation, only a handful of people will first review themselves. Most people like to find problems from others, both to shirk their responsibilities. In order to win sympathy and psychological comfort. Ordinary people put themselves in the position of victims through this kind of argument, clarifying their relationship with war; bureaucrats and soldiers use this myth to shirk their responsibilities; innumerable politicians greet the public and advocate This wonderful logic draws votes for yourself;
All groups are just taking their own needs. As far as possible, the myth of
the knife behind
means in other countries’ eyes, and what kind of influence will it bring to the Republic at this critical moment of fate choice. No one cares what kind of trouble.
And such remarks that treat responsibility as nothing and don’t care about the overall situation are just one of the many brainless theories in the Republic. It is even stranger, more brainless, and more radical.