Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 58.

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The official visit to the United States of America by the Vice-President and Minister of Defence of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, which began on 8 July and lasted three days, did not elicit much reaction in the media; instead, the de facto Rwandan ruler abruptly left Washington on the last day and arrived on the west coast of the United States as a guest at Simon Westeros's Point Dume estate, giving the media a lively follow-up.

Paul Kagame was a guest at the Dume Point estate, primarily to express, on behalf of the Rwandan people, their gratitude once again to Simon Westeros for preventing the tragedy of the Rwandan genocide two years ago.

From the Woodfield House bombing to his involvement in the Rwandan war, and then the subsequent painstaking elimination of an entire Pride family in Italy, Simon has shown all the fronts he needs to show in order to avoid certain covetousness, including, outside of these violent methods, meddling in the 1994 midterm elections and the quietly completed 'Sword of Damocles' project. '.

After the sharp end, it is convergence.

Especially since this is still a U.S. election year, the Westeros system has to keep a low profile to avoid a backlash from all sides.

So Simon didn't really want to host Paul Kagame, an African politician, at the Point Dume estate.

After all, it can really remind too many people of too many things.

However, if not entertained, it will also have certain negative effects, starting with speculation as to whether the Westeros system has completely failed in its efforts in Africa. Other allies of the Westeros system might even be shaken by this, and on balance, a luncheon was arranged anyway.

Now that we've decided, it's a hot mess.

A group of prominent California politicians were invited by the way, and media interviews were arranged.

Often times, the media and public focus is always a bit strange, like how people don't care about the content of Paul Kagame's meetings with the President and a slew of other top Washington officials, but are very interested in the lunch menu when Simon Westeros entertains the African politician.

Others, of course, can see more on other levels.

You know, two years ago at the end of the Rwandan war, in the face of many people's fears that the Westeros system might control Rwanda, Simon chose to withdraw quite simply, as if he really was a Robin Hood who wanted to maintain justice on earth, regardless of the cost. Then, in two years' time, people even forgot what the Vichy private army had done in Rwanda, and some thought that the impact of the Westeros system on Rwanda had been minimized.

It wasn't until some time ago, when the Westeros system, with the help of the Rwandan government, took on France, leaving the Chirac authorities in disgrace, that everyone reacted.

Many people also respond to this.

The Dos Santos authorities in Angola, for example, expelled the arms-dealing team of the son of former French President Mitterrand and completely fell back on the Westeros system.

The view stretched incredibly high and far, and overlooked again.

Seemingly unwittingly, the powerful influence of the Westeros system has spread across the globe.

Needless to say, North America.

In addition, the Westeros system has created a fairly strong influence in Asia, Africa, and Europe - China in Asia, Rwanda and Angola in Africa, Ukraine in Europe, and even, for some, the looming Russia. This seemingly unrelated fallout has unwittingly begun to affect the entire landscape of the chessboard.

Moscow.

Yeltsin was given a report on the subject only the morning after he hosted a luncheon at the Dume Point estate.

Chapter 7.

Yeltsin has been suffering from increasingly serious coronary heart disease since two years ago, and has been secretly hospitalized several times with unsatisfactory results. In addition, over the past six months, in order to campaign, Yeltsin also has to continuously travel around Russia to canvass for votes, making the health condition further deteriorate, to the extent that it is difficult to maintain without surgery.

Chapter 7.

The doctor's recommendation was for immediate surgery, but Yeltsin was afraid to take that risk.

Although the Kegon medical team gave a success rate of more than 80% for the surgery, but, after all, it's not 100%, and if something goes wrong, this win will be meaningless, so he has to arrange as many things as possible in order to get on the operating table, which is definitely not something that can be done in a day or two.

And, having succeeded in getting re-elected, the situation in Russia has instead become even more of a mess.

At this moment, in the Kremlin's presidential office, Chubais Borisevich, who has played a key role in Russia's economic reform in the past few years and was previously the head of the presidential campaign team, is discussing the top appointments of the new Russian government with Boris Yeltsin, who was reading the data from yesterday's luncheon at the Dume cape estate.

Actually preferring to deliver the message.

The current role of the Russian top brass, later known as the father of Russian privatization, is more likely to be that of a liaison between the Kremlin and the many Russian oligarchs.

Yeltsin already has a hard time judging whether the other side is still loyal to him.

And, from Chubais's report, those oligarchs are simply a bit impatient.

"Mr. President, Mr. President?"

Sensing that Yeltsin was distracted, Chubais had to raise his voice a bit to warn him, and some imperceptible impatience flashed across his face, as if he thought that Yeltsin had once again been drinking against doctor's orders and hadn't regained consciousness at this point.

Yeltsin looked up from the file in front of him, "Well, what did you just say?"

Chubais reminded him, "About Berezovsky's desire to become Prime Minister."

Yeltsin bobbed his head slightly before saying, "So, what do you think about this?"

"I don't think it's right," Chubais said, "and Berezovsky's demands are too much, he has no experience in governing at all, and it would only be a disaster for Russia if we put the other guy in the prime minister's position."

"Well, I'll give it serious consideration."

Chubais was stunned, what else was he going to say, Yeltsin had already waved his hand, "I'm suddenly a little tired, you go back first, we'll talk about this matter this afternoon."

With some reluctance, Chubais continued, "Also, Mr. President, Berezovsky is still Jewish, which is one of the main reasons why he is not suitable to be the Prime Minister or even the top management of the Kremlin."

Yeltsin again waved his hand, "You can go home now."

Seeing that Yeltsin had lost patience, Chubais did not continue and got up and left the office in silence.

When Chubais left, Yeltsin leaned against the back of his chair with some irritation.

With the election over, Berezovsky, Potanin, and the other Russian oligarchs had no intention of reining it in at all, and were brazenly and impatiently demanding all kinds of rewards from the Kremlin. Even those close to him whom he had once trusted, such as the one who had just left, gave birth to their own little thoughts.

Chubais had just made a speech that Yeltsin actually understood, mainly because the subordinate had gone over to the Potanin line.

And there was a specific reference to Jews.

Heh.

By the way, there weren't many of the major oligarchs who weren't Jews, and Potanin was precisely not a Jew. After all, although Potanin is not a Jew, but the biggest financier behind the other side, George Soros, is obviously a Jew, and Chubais has a very close relationship with the American financial oligarch in private.

The office room door was knocked on again, Yeltsin's second daughter Tatyana walked in, let go of the door and closed it, looking at her father who was sitting alone behind the wide desk, Tatyana's voice was played very softly, "Dad?"

Some smile finally appeared on Yeltsin's face, motioned for his daughter to sit down, thought about it, and asked, "What has that man been doing lately?"

Naturally, Tatyana knew who her father was talking about and replied, "He's recently been retooling the list of Kremlin properties."

The Kremlin, in many cases, is really just a code name, and the Kremlin properties Tatyana is referring to are just a generalization that includes, in addition to this palace in Moscow, which represents the center of state power, a vast system of presidentially related real estate properties located all over Russia and even abroad.

The former Soviet top brass were notorious for building holiday villas everywhere, and many of the assets had been inherited by the Russian authorities.

Yeltsin nodded and hesitated a little, but in the end he did not ask his daughter to summon someone over.

For the former deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, who had been recommended to him by Simon Westeros, Yeltsin had privately almost gone through the other man's file resume, but aside from the initial personal placement of the other man as deputy director of the Presidential Affairs Bureau, Yeltsin had never shown any further special treatment, or even some indifference, during this time.

He's still observing.

After all, the stakes are too high, and in case ...... does have to prop up a Simon Westeros puppet in the future, even if, according to someone's rhetoric conveyed by his daughter, once in a certain position, it's impossible to be anyone's puppet at all, Yeltsin believes that to be the case, but what if?

Suddenly remembering something else, Yeltsin asked, "Have you had any recent contact with Mikhail Friedman?"

So much for realizing that the seven existing oligarchs in Russia, since the dust has settled on the election results, everyone else has started claiming their own interests, except for that spokesman for the Westeros system in Russia, Mikhail Friedman, who has not been seen since, except for a few chats at the post-victory celebration dinner.

It seems to have been forgotten by many people in general.

Tatyana, obviously very much on board with this too, or ultimately more so with a certain young man, nodded, "There was also contact yesterday, and Mikhail is in Estonia, discussing a telecommunications partnership with the region."

"Huh?"

Tatyana explained, "The Alpha Group owns a telecom company called Viper Communications, and in addition to the country, the telecom company, which specializes in mobile communications, also operates in a number of other countries in Eastern Europe and is doing very well."

Yeltsin nodded, suddenly developing a strong dislike for the other oligarchs again.

Those people were only interested in appropriating the assets of their own countries, and in contrast, this spokesman, whom Simon Westeros had fostered, was expanding outward, and it was clear which was higher and which was lower.

After thinking about it, Yeltsin asked, "Has there been any appeal from Mikhail's side about the privatization of Telecom Investment JSC?"

When the first secret contact with Simon Westeros, Tatyana on behalf of her father promised the other party to get such a gift, and the result was rejected by Simon Westeros.

Even though his daughter had explained, Yeltsin still felt that it might be because Westeros was not too optimistic about the results of the election, after all, this telecom privatization is a fat business, other oligarchs with a little bit of power are fighting for it, Berezovsky and Potanin two oligarchs have even started to fight over it.

Now, it just so happened that the Alpha Group, which Mikhail Friedman was in charge of, also had a telecom business in Russia, and handing over this asset to the other side would undoubtedly be perfect.

Tatyana, however, shook her head.

Yeltsin was in disbelief: "Really?"

Tatyana, also feeling a bit incredulous, said, "I also talked to Mikhail about this, and he explicitly refused, because, well, it wasn't authorized by that person."

Yeltsin thought about it and said, "I remember Cersei Capital is helping a Chinese telecom company with an overseas IPO operation?"

Tatyana also read the file and nodded, "Yes, it's a big deal, expected to raise around $4 billion."

Yeltsin mulled it over for a few more moments and asked his daughter, "Tanya, do you think we could do the same operation and hand over Telecom Investment JSC to Cersei Capital for an overseas IPO operation?"

Yeltsin, by this time, had become extremely rebellious inside towards the oligarchs who were surrounding the Kremlin like wild dogs.

Simon Westeros did not want the fatty meat of Rostelecom Investment JSC, he preferred to give it to the other party, and for those who wanted it very much, Yeltsin wanted to make the other party ecstatically happy.

When Tatyana saw her father say these words, her face showed some strange redness, and she could not help but feel a pity, how could she not know the pressure brought to her father by those oligarchs who were simply a little too bullying, she got up and poured a glass of mineral water for her father and handed it over, and when Yeltsin drank some water and calmed down, he was about to open his mouth, Yeltsin himself had already smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Never mind, let's leave this matter alone and let them fight it out on their own."

The whim was destined to be just a whim.

Yeltsin's political wisdom had not disappeared even though he was very weak by this time.

If Simon Westeros was okay with accepting this gift, other oligarchs facing this reality might resent him, but in the face of the great power of the Westeros system, it was likely that they would still choose to acquiesce. However, if Simon Westeros didn't want it and he didn't give the fat to the other oligarchs, he would be poking the hornet's nest.