The Big Three Meeting

Leaving matters to the parliament was certainly much safer, and it could also prevent the government from taking the blame for everything. However, it also had a huge drawback: anything discussed in parliament would be widely circulated, making relative confidentiality completely impossible.

In other words, the British Parliament might just have started voting on whether to make war on the US, and the American ambassador to the United Kingdom would receive the news and urgently contact the US to prepare.

Such a situation was simply impossible to avoid; after all, parliaments were crowded and full of eyes and ears, and no country could achieve complete confidentiality.

Before submitting the proposal to the parliament, the British Government urgently contacted numerous countries to ascertain each nation's opinion.

Among them, the UK valued France and Australasia the most, as these two countries were also the strongest nations in the World League besides the United Kingdom.

Arthur naturally would not oppose such a move, because Australasia could also reap unexpected gains.

Especially after eliminating the American enemy, the remaining island nation would no longer pose a threat, and Australasia's hegemony over the Pacific would be basically assured.

Meanwhile, the attitude of the French toward this was ambiguous—they neither opposed making war on the US nor were they all that enthusiastic.

After all, although the French could also gain considerable benefits, the US was Britain's greatest competitor, not France's.

The ones who gained the most benefits from eliminating the US were the British people, whereas for the French it was just so-so, and it might even make it harder to resist British rule in Europe.

Yet France would not oppose Britain launching a war against the US, and even less would it stand on the opposing side of Britain as it had during the War