Chapter 317

In the Americas, only Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador agreed to sanction the French Empire, but those countries with strong ties to the French Empire were reluctant to take action, because they did not need to offend a European power.

Before the United Kingdom announced the sanctions, as the United Kingdom also joined the sanctions, the Americas suddenly surged, and other countries also changed.

Paraguay and Mexico, allies of the French Empire, even claimed that the French Empire's invasion was the right thing to do.

In order to oppose the influence of the common Mexico of the north and south of the United States, the Mexican emperor Momasimiliano I of the French Empire and the President of Paraguay Pelos have even announced their support for the French Empire, and even announced the purchase of the French Empire's industry and weapons, claiming that this is a The expression of friendship between the two countries.

To this end, both the north and the south of Millikin expressed their dissatisfaction with Maximilian I and demanded that the country withdraw from the agreement between France and Mexico. Shenzhou Milliken also demanded that the French Empire withdraw from Mexico, otherwise the two sides would implement France. Sanctions.

However, at this time, Napoleon III, who has been numb to the word sanctions, has only resentment, and there is no persecution. Therefore, the answer that the Commonwealth of Millikin gets is the veto of the French Empire.

The two countries of Millikin also joined the ranks of criticizing the French Empire.

For this reason, many people say that this is just an excuse for the two countries. After all, there are many French people in the two countries. This is the best way to stop their mouths.

For this reason, Herman van Rompuy, a Dutch political expert and dean of the Leiden University President's School of Foreign Affairs, said in an interview: "This is a question of legitimacy, that is, this series of sanctions is not authorized by a coalition of all countries. Therefore, he does not belong to the nature of law enforcement in the world. Therefore, in the international arena, countries are not obliged to participate in sanctions. In actual policies, the nature of countries to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages also makes them reluctant to take measures. Measures to undermine relations with the French Empire, in other words, most countries are unwilling to take sides"

European powers and European countries changed their attitudes from soft to hard after the French Empire went to war with the Kingdom of Siam. Before the war, Britain was unwilling to fall out with the French Empire, and refused to give up its balance of power with the French Empire.

In terms of supporting the Kingdom of Siam, the United Kingdom only sold ordinary small arms legitimately before. Even at the beginning, many of the weapons sold by the United Kingdom were old-fashioned flintlock weapons, which were scorned by the Kingdom of Siam. But after the war gradually expanded, especially when there was turmoil in the Canadian Dominion in North America and the French Empire government participated, the British anger was suppressed. So he turned his anger on the French Empire, and the UK immediately reversed its position and generously sent several batches of the most advanced rifles and other advanced weapons being used by the British military. The Prime Minister of the British Tory Party, Disraeli, even Contrary to the practice of the previous Prime Minister Palmerston, he changed his practice of not participating in European affairs at will, and announced sanctions on the French Empire.

In the end, the French Empire also carried out counter-sanctions against the United Kingdom, not only withdrew from the friendly jurisdictional relationship with the United Kingdom in the English Channel, but also withdrew from many issues of bilateral relations. This makes the situation in the Far East more intense with the European continent.

As a result, in Belgium, Belgians of French descent and Leopold II led the rise in confrontation on the streets of Belgium, while Dutch people have become mediators within the Kingdom of Belgium. Joseph Beit's rule is more stable.

However, because the Dutch government's position was biased towards sanctioning the French Empire, the French Empire eventually discovered that Belgium had also passed legislation to sanction France and joined them in sanctioning them.

This makes the French people in Belgium extremely angry, but it does not help, because their population base has become less than 20% of the Belgian domestic, and the weight and the necessary votes are not enough to push through all parliaments.

However, compared with the United Kingdom, Prussia's struggle for peace talks and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are stinging weapons.

Just like the United Kingdom at the beginning, Spain bought a lot of weapons from the French Empire, and the French Empire sold armaments to Spain, and Spain was the most advanced weapons buyer in France. According to previous data from the Amsterdam Institute for Peace, although Spain was also an arms exporter from 1860 to 1865, Spain was also a major arms importer. 30% of the armaments used by the country's army came from the French Empire, so at the beginning Spain The hesitation of sanctions is understandable.

However, Sweden's unconventional support for the Netherlands underscores the alliance between the Netherlands and Sweden.

Sweden has been neutral since 1815 to guard against the Russian Empire. It is friendly to other countries, so it always chooses an ambiguous attitude towards the development of the situation in Europe. Even when Prussia invaded Denmark, Sweden chose to turn a blind eye, showing an attitude of unwillingness to participate in it once made Denmark. The kingdom was outraged.

In this regard, Herman van Peron said that this involves the issue of the international system, and there are too many veto points, which hinder the response to major international events. These are issues that countries should reflect on, how to reform and eliminate accumulated drawbacks.

Even so, he said, this is actually more of a struggle between several parties on the European continent. Sweden and other countries are no longer out of the picture, and it is difficult to achieve the result as easy as before. Therefore, it is better to choose a side and have a good time in the end.

He also said that the European and American countries that responded to the sanctions this time wanted the ball mainly from countries that were not very friendly to the French Empire and had even been wary of French influence. uukanshu.com Within European and American countries, the breadth and intensity of sanctions imposed by these countries is also related to their economic and military dependence on the French Empire. In fact, these countries are not very dependent on their economies, even the Netherlands, to a certain extent. Economic autonomy and armament autonomy have long been out of the scope of French influence, let alone the United Kingdom, so there is not much concern about sanctioning the French Empire.

However, for countries such as Spain, because of the long-standing friendly relations between the two countries and the serious overlap of economic and military intimacy, it is impossible to decouple this link from the French Empire in terms of armament and economy.

However, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has always been a taboo, because the Austro-Hungarian Empire is highly dependent on the industrial support of the French Empire. When Franz Joseph I faced domestic anti-French people, he warned at the beginning of the implementation of the sanctions that if the Austro-Hungarian Empire was implemented Sanctions against France will trigger the economic recession of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He pointed out that the Austro-Hungarian Empire will appropriately reduce its industrial dependence on France, and now cutting off all industrial economies with the French Empire will catch the Austro-Hungarian economy by surprise.

He went further and told the people that there was no major dispute between the Austria-Hungary Empire and the French Empire, and they had common basic interests in terms of the balance of power in the European continent.

Many people speculate that this is the threat from the newly rising power of Prussia, which the Austro-Hungarian Empire and France are also facing. Obviously, Franz Joseph I did not want to worry about the Kingdom of Prussia, which has not yet appeared on the list of sanctioned countries. This led his attention to Prussia, which was an old fox.

As a result, among the great powers, the Tsarist Russian Empire has not yet expressed any attitude towards the French Empire. Therefore, European and American countries have turned their attention to St. Petersburg, as if waiting for the voice of Alexander II.