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Chapter 1457 The Position
If you can……

Everyone wants to be in control of their own destiny!

The Republic of Lemar is located in the north-central part of the Eastern Ocean. In the past, this country had no sense of existence.

Because it is too far from this world!
Far refers to the distance and distance between it and other countries.

Except for part of the ocean trade, few people will travel to Lemar, and the Lemar people will not travel to other countries.

If technology is not developed, people cannot go far!
Perhaps the furthest people could go was around their own living area at the beginning, but with the advancement of science, people have been able to go farther.

The world has not changed, technology has made the world smaller.

The Lemar people had nothing to worry about before, but now, they have.

The Lemar Republic consists of nineteen districts in the Lemar Islands, and the president is directly elected by the people of these nineteen districts.

The biggest difference between it and the Federation is that people's right to appoint and remove the president has been expanded. They can vote for anyone, including themselves, instead of the presidential candidate elected by the party!
However, if a directly elected president does not have a solid political foundation, he can only be a mascot.

In fact, there is no shortage of such mascot presidents in the history of Lemar. The appearance of the mascot president can actually be regarded as another form of compromise under the sharpening of partisan contradictions.

With the rise of the mascot, the contradictions between the parties will tend to ease, until the next time it will intensify again.

Now Lemar's president comes from Lemar's largest party, the Helping People's Party (Helping the National Cause Party). Maintaining neutrality is the policy that the Helping People's Party has always adhered to.

It was so before, and it is so now.

After they rejected the request of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to build fortifications in the territory of Le Mar, they were also nervous and worried for a while.

It's just that the federal people did not show dissatisfaction with Lemar's decision afterwards, and launched some public opinion offensive or trade sanctions, which made Lemar breathe a sigh of relief.

To be honest, the federation is now putting more and more pressure on the international community, and people have also seen the role of technology in military and national power!
In the words of some people, isn't it that technology is ahead of other countries by perhaps ten or twenty years?

Is this an unbridgeable chasm?

Obviously, yes!

When most countries still maintain plane wars, the Federation has turned wars into three-dimensional wars.

This represents the crushing of dimensions. This is no longer a question of strength and technology, but of being in a different dimension.

Even though some countries have caught up now, the gap is still obvious.

The Federation's aircraft are well-defined, well-purposed, and well-designed.

The seemingly small gap may require several times or even dozens of times of human lives to fill it on the battlefield, and it may not be able to fill the gap caused by these gaps!
The Lemar people do not intend to intervene in the wars between these world powers, they just want to live in peace.

At nine o'clock in the morning, President Lemar woke up from the bed.

Lemar does not have too many heavy industries, and mainly takes animal husbandry and seafood as the country's pillar industries.

Almost everyone here is a sailor, and they operate and fish at sea under the rules of family, village or company.

The things caught will be exported in large quantities all over the world. Among the many products, large marine organisms are the most prominent.

Things like whales, deep sea elephants, and superstar seahorses (not a typo) all account for a large proportion of exports.

Generally speaking, this is a calm, moderate country without too many disputes.

Getting up at nine o'clock has already given the people a "hardworking" impression of the president.

You know, most people don't get up until noon, because the leisurely life is enough for them to develop the habit of getting drunk in the middle of the night.

The location here is slightly to the north, and it will be relatively cold in winter, so drinking alcohol and alcohol has become a habit of the whole people.

Getting drunk while watching TV at night is a normal part of most people's lives.

In the morning, shortly after Mr. President, who drove to the presidential palace, sat down, the phone in the secretary's office outside the door rang.

He waited for a while, but still no one answered, it seemed that the secretary hadn't come yet.

He walked into the secretary's office, looked at the phone that had been ringing, and after a moment of silence, he picked it up.

Originally, the secretary's job included sorting incoming calls. She might not have gotten up yet, so as a hardworking president, he could only answer the calls by himself.

"This is the office of the President's Secretary...", he introduced himself as usual.

Immediately from the opposite side came a non-local accent, but a very natural standard Chinese pronunciation.

"Hello, I want to visit Mr. President, what procedures do I have to go through?"

This question stopped Mr. President at once.

How did he know to need those procedures?
He didn't do this again.

After being stunned for a while, he quickly asked, "Ah, yes, what capacity do you plan to use to visit Mr. President?"

"Penteo's identity as a diplomat..."

Half an hour later, Mr. President sat in the office a little nervously, and became nervous when the other party claimed that he was a diplomat of Penteo.

At this moment, he was waiting for the arrival of the other party.

He was guessing what the diplomat would say when he arrived, and how he should face it.

Not long after, someone knocked on the door, and the president came back to his senses and said, "Come in."

The one who came in was a gentleman who looked to be only 40 years old at most. He was dressed very decently and noblely, and you could feel the extraordinary aura from him without him opening his mouth.

He must be a nobleman of Penteo, the President thought so, and then invited him to sit down.

After sitting down, Peng Jieo's diplomat complained a few words.

"I called your diplomatic department, but I never got through..."

Mr. President was a little embarrassed, "It's the fishing season these days, and the foreign minister has to go back to help."

Lemar is far away from the world, and the role of the foreign ministry is very small. In some respects, even the foreign minister has less power than the police station in a certain district.

Not even as good as the assistant chief of police.

The daily contact with the outside world may only help some agricultural products find export opportunities when necessary. Other than that, they have nothing to communicate with the outside world.

Closed, simple, and unadorned are the status quo of diplomacy here.

Now that spring has just started, the returning fishing season is coming intensively, which is a very important event of the year for Lemar.

It determines the income of people in this country for at least the first half of the year, so Mr. President himself thinks that there is no problem with the foreign minister who is just dawdling every day and takes the initiative to ask for leave to go home and go to sea.

Who would contact foreign affairs at such an important time?

Peng Jieao's diplomat was also stunned. It was impossible for him to think that the reason why he couldn't get through on the phone was that the foreign minister had gone back to fishing.

This... well!
Mr. President didn't want to continue to be embarrassed, "Then what is the purpose of your visit this time?"

It was very straightforward, and the diplomat of Penteio was equally direct, "We hope to help you resist the invasion of the Federals..."

The same as the federal people said, Mr. President smiled and did not express his position, "The federation does not intend to invade us."

"That's only temporary!" The diplomat pressed forward, "The Federation people are seeking a higher status in the international community, and they will become more aggressive than ever before."

"We have collected some information recently. They are building fortifications in the sea east of Sadoras. You should understand what this means."

Mr. President was stunned by what the diplomat Peng Jieao said. He really didn't know what it meant, but he knew it was not a good sign.

But this does not prevent him from showing a dignified expression. Although Lemar's situation is not as complicated as that of the Federation, for politicians, the basic qualities of an actor are still required.

"I didn't know about this!", Mr. President lowered his voice, which made him seem to hide a trace of dissatisfaction, some anger!
The diplomat continued to press, "They used Lemar as an imaginary battlefield..."

"No, it's not hypothetical. They just intend to use Lemar as a battlefield. Their attitude is like this."

"Mr. President, the only one who can save Lemar now is us!"

Soon Mr. President said that he would consider it, and did not immediately reply to the diplomat of Peng Jieao, and then let the other party leave.

Then he called everyone and gathered them in his conference hall.

After he repeated what Diplomat Penteo had said, everyone's expressions became... different.

Some people showed dissatisfaction.

Some showed timidity.

Some people showed imperceptible smiles.

In fact, what Diplomat Penteo said was not wrong at all, but not quite right.

When Lemar refuses to side with the Federals, they are at least not allies anymore.

You can't even take care of Sedoras just because you want to take care of the people of Lemar, right?

Once the defense is set up in Sadoras, it means that Lemar has become the front line, and there is no way around it.

In the war that spreads to the world no one can stay out of it (independent from all right and wrong, not involved in anything, not affected by anything), it can only be said that this is not the problem of the Federation, but Lemar's own problem.

But obviously, the consequences they caused themselves now make them uncomfortable, and Mr. President is very dissatisfied because of this.

"First get the foreign minister back, and then we need to contact the Baylor Federation and ask them what they mean."

Mr. President's emotions have been led away by Peng Jieo's diplomats. When he was expressing his dissatisfaction with the behavior of the Federation, someone interrupted his speech.

"Mr. President, if we don't plan to go to war with the Federals, it's better that we remain independent in this matter!"

"A position in favor of the Penteos will destroy our policy of neutrality!"

(End of this chapter)