Chapter 1345 Interstellar Stage (52)
Latvia is a small country that has little presence in the world or in Europe. In other words, there are too many small countries like this in Eastern Europe. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, they have basically disappeared from the international public opinion field.
Since the earth entered the solar system era, the situation of Eastern European countries has been very embarrassing. The old European powers do not think they are their own people, but the behemoth next to them does not play with them. These small countries that are broken like biscuit crumbs are just squeezed in between the big countries and drift with the tide. No one can come up with ideas, and no one can implement them. The situation is even worse than that in Africa.
Although African countries are not good, they can hug thighs. The wealthy areas are generally pro-American, and the less developed areas have received a lot of help from China and are more pro-China. French colonies can follow the old boss, and if there is no other way, they can follow Wakanda's ass to drink some soup.
But Eastern Europe can really be said to have no relatives and no friends, and no one likes them. The United States itself is busy developing its space industry, and the plan to use NATO to balance the East has not been mentioned for a long time.
But apart from this strategic value, Eastern Europe has no land, no people, no resources, and is fragmented. Everyone thinks they are the boss and is addicted to being weak.
In the past, because they had many sovereign states, they still had some voice in the international public opinion field, but now everyone is focusing on development and no one listens to them. They are completely unloved.
If you have to pick a tall one among the short ones, it is Latvia, which has no voice in the past.
The most discussed point about this small country is that they had changed to a republic before, but since the arrival of the god Dum, the social system of Latvia has developed in the opposite direction and rushed to the feudal monarchy without looking back.
Of course, feudal imperial power should have been eliminated by modern civilized society long ago, but when the other choice is American democracy, feudal monarchy is not so unacceptable.
And the fact is that after Dum reversed and overthrew Latvia's democratic system and restored the feudal system, Latvia really became a tall one that can be pulled up.
After all, Doom is not an ordinary person. If Stark is compared with him, if Stark goes to a small country to be the king, he will definitely choose the feudal monarchy, not because he wants to satisfy his addiction to power, but mainly because this system has the strongest execution and is the simplest to operate.
A sufficiently talented and wise king, a highly centralized system, and no external interference, even in modern society, is a system that is most likely to accelerate development, and Latvia is just like this.
When Doom reversed the reform, put the reverse gear on the accelerator and stepped back to the feudal monarchy, the neighbors around him did not have no objections, and the international community also made several rounds of condemnation.
But as the saying goes, development is the hard truth. When Latvia became the Wakanda of Eastern Europe, no one dared to touch the bad luck of this god.
After successfully transforming Latvia into a kingdom, Doom built a palace in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It occupies a large area and is very luxurious, but the people have no objection to it.
What does it mean that a country with an area of more than 60,000 square kilometers has only more than 2 million people? Shanghai has more than 6,000 square kilometers and more than 20 million people.
Land is not a scarce product here. Even the capital Riga has large tracts of land available for development. Even if Dum builds ten palaces, it will not take up much space.
Latvia is not a very prosperous country. It has a small population, a slow pace of life, an underdeveloped communication network, and is not in line with the international community. The people are generally not very interested in politics. Most citizens think Dum is a lunatic, but there is not much motivation to overthrow him. At present, the two sides are in a state of ignoring each other.
Dum does not mind. He just wants to have an independent foothold to display his talents. As it turns out, he is indeed very talented. After the group of small Eastern European countries that are not loved by their parents have been blocked everywhere, they finally found that the thigh is beside me.
Everyone is complaining about reverse gear, everyone wants to reverse gear. Which politician in the world doesn't want to be a dictator and hold power? What's hateful is not that Dum is the emperor, but that everyone is holding back. Only you are honest, and everyone is fantasizing. Only you executed it, and not only executed it, but also succeeded. How can you not be hated?
But it's useless to hate. The small countries in Eastern Europe stared to the right. The old man who should have been weak, after the United States loosened the chain, he was relieved. Looking to the right, the big guy next to him threw rockets into the sky like they didn't need money. Looking far away, the poor brothers in Africa all went to the wise master and hugged the thigh.
Then look down at your own world, there is indeed no Poland, everyone laughs at Poland, and everyone is Poland.
Those who are capable have flown away on spaceships, so they can enjoy the earth alone? Even the stupidest politicians will not think so. It is more likely that the earth flew away and they stayed.
As the pace of development gets faster and faster, these Baltic countries with no sense of existence finally get anxious. Diplomats, ambassadors, and even the Secretary of State and the Vice President go to Latvia every day. Doom is not sad, he is almost annoyed.
In the final analysis, Doom is still a scientist, and he has many similarities with Stark. They want power, not to enjoy the power itself, but just to have confidence in their own judgment, and at the same time need sufficient execution. Power is the carrier of wisdom and decisiveness.
But if they are really allowed to become politicians, plunge into the septic tank of international public opinion, and use their genius brains to swim in the cesspit butterfly, then they will definitely run as far as they can.
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After meeting five stupid, troublesome ambassadors in one day, Doom knocked out a stand-in robot overnight, ran away with a bucket.
The foothills of the Himalayas are a gray area where fish and dragons are mixed, especially for the magic world. Many contraband can be traded here, and the harsh climate conditions cannot stop people from the occult community who show their magical powers.
Doom established the laboratory here mainly because it is easier to obtain some scarce materials here, and with Kama Taj sitting above his head, no one dares to go too far, the transactions are fairly honest, and the supply of goods is relatively stable.
There is a small village on the road leading to Kama Taj. It is not far from the village where the ancient master was born, but it is larger than that village. There are almost no ordinary people here. Maybe there were a few generations ago, because of the coming and going. There are too many weirdos, and after a few generations, most of them are basically ignorant of the occult world.
It was snowing again in the Himalayas. Villagers wearing thick leather robes were standing at the intersection sweeping the snow. Suddenly a shadow fell in front of the broom. The villagers looked up and saw a man wearing a steel mask under the hood. face.
"Who are you looking for?" the villager asked in somewhat broken English.
"Is the restaurant open?" A mechanical and sharp voice sounded from under the hood.
Another weirdo, the villager thought, but there is no shortage of weirdos here, so he just continued to sweep the snow on the ground with a broom, and said: "The restaurant is open, but it is about to close, you have to hurry up."
The strange man wearing a mask said nothing, and walked into the depths of the village with consistent steps.
Walk in from the main road, turn right, pass between the stable and the hotel, and come to another wider road. There is a noisy sound coming from the only door with a sign.
The door creaked, and the atmosphere in the room was stagnant. Soon the chatter of discussion began again, "That weirdo is here again!" ", "He is so strange", "Why did the village chief let him in? Look at his weird mask, how could a robot possibly use magic? "
Along with the discussion all the way, the man wearing a hood and a steel mask came to sit on the seat in front of the window. Soon, a young local girl wearing a scarf brought a cup of hot tea.
"Thank you." The mechanical voice came again.
The village girl seemed to be a little curious. Her eyes followed the darkness of the hood. When she saw the slightly shining mechanical eyes, she retracted her gaze in a panic and ran back to the counter quickly. Behind.
What kind of eyes are those? She found it hard to describe, cold, ruthless, mysterious, and unpredictable.
"Jingle bell."
The wind chime hanging at the door rang again, and another figure wearing a robe and a hood came in. He came to the counter and said, "Bring me a cup of hot black tea and a cup of milk."
"Okay soon, you can go and sit down first."
The figure in the robe walked inside, but did not stop at any seat on the way. Instead, he walked with steady steps and sat down opposite the weird man wearing the steel mask.
The seat was in the corner, and the seat where the man in the robe sat was facing away from all the restaurant guests, so no one could see his true face when he took off his hood.
When the hood comes off, Tony Stark's face is revealed.
"Sir, your tea...Oh, my God!" The girl who came over with the teacup screamed. There were too few people in the world who didn't know Stark, but soon, she felt herself being He stared at him with extremely cold eyes.
The waitress girl felt her whole body stiffen, but at this moment Stark said: "Don't worry, go ahead."
Feeling the cold gaze gradually withdrawing, the waitress tightened her robe, turned around and left stiffly. Stark picked up the milk cup and poured the milk into the tea cup.
Even through the mask, he could feel that the person on the other side was confused by Stark's action.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not British, it's just that in my head there is a very hypocritical guy who misses his butler."
Stark's voice was soft as if he was talking, his eyes were a little dull, and he said: "You have to understand me, now 90% of my brain is operating at the highest speed, let's skip the politeness. "
"You're right. Just yesterday, I received a mysterious phone call inviting me to go to another universe to pick up the technological heritage there."
"Did you promise him what I said?"
"Doom doesn't like doing that very much." The person on the opposite side narrated from an onlooker's perspective: "No technological relic can compare to Doom's invention. Doom is not a scavenger."
"Of course, I understand, we are the same kind of people." Stark's voice had an unusual low tone, like the whisper of a devil. He said, "No one likes cannibalism, but don't forget us. That’s the deal you should do.”
"Dum doesn't need you to remind him." The voice was cold and robot-like again. He paused and said, "Dum just wants to know how far Doom has to go to achieve his goal."
"Collect as much supplies as possible, and create as much chaos as possible, and keep everyone and the doctor there for at least 4 hours."
The eyes of the mechanical mask blinked, and he nodded with a somewhat stiff movement. Just before Stark got up and left, Doom spoke again:
"Doom, judging from the data, you are a human supremacist, and there is no possibility of being an enemy of them. Doom wants to know why you do this."
Stark paused in his action of getting up, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he knocked on the wooden table with his fingertips, and said: "When you really join this plan, you will know."