The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

After sending Al away, Liu Tao showed a pensive look.

The international situation is unpredictable and no one can completely control it.

The strategic importance of Iraq is beyond doubt!

With rich oil resources, it is one of the major oil-producing countries in the Middle East. Its oil resources have an important impact on the economic development of itself and neighboring countries. Whoever controls Iraq can obtain a large amount of oil, and the pricing power and voice of oil will be greatly increased.

Moreover, from a geopolitical perspective, Iraq is located in the heart of the Middle East, where the interests of the Eurasian continent and hegemony meet. Whoever controls this place is equivalent to controlling the lifeline of the Eurasian continent and whoever controls the strategic initiative.

If you say which is more important, Afghanistan or Iraq, then there is no doubt that Iraq is more important!

Back then, George Wharton thought that he had a lot of martial virtues and needed to let the old Americans, who had been holding back for many years, have a way to vent their endless energy, and at the same time let the old Americans bleed and keep throwing money into two bottomless pits.

From the current situation, this strategic goal has been achieved.

The Americans have invested a huge amount of money and resources in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, and their energy has been involved in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Compared with the initial tyranny, after a few years, this bald eagle has become much calmer and is no longer so aggressive in many areas.

In other places, the limited energy and strength have given these places a rare opportunity for development.

Almost most Latin American countries have developed quite well in recent years.

Especially countries with abundant oil and natural gas are developing at a high speed.

But for Americans, from a certain perspective, the United States has also realized its strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq, taking a greater initiative in geopolitics, and enhancing its voice in the world.

Moreover, the US military has accumulated a lot of actual combat experience through these two wars.

It's nothing more than that the cost of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq is a little higher.

From a certain perspective, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq is a win-win, or even a multi-win.

Europe is also not a loser!

Germany took advantage of the rare opportunity to achieve military autonomy, and there are no more troops stationed in other countries. Germany has truly become a sovereign and independent country.

The Franco-German alliance has grown in strength, driving the entire Europe to move faster towards integration.

In Europe, there are more voices of independent thinking based on Europe's own interests.

The relationship between Europe and Russia has greatly improved.

For Russia, it is not necessarily a loser, but also one of the winners. It has the best of both worlds and controls two of the world's three largest energy consumption markets. Relying on the huge income from energy, it is rapidly revitalizing and restoring its national strength.

Even Russia has become a truly developed country, meeting the standards of developed countries in all aspects.

But the world has not become safer or more stable.

On the contrary, in fact, the world is becoming more and more unsafe.

There is a view in the world today that the voices are getting louder and louder, that is, the Americans are fighting terrorism and fighting terrorism, and the more they fight, the more terrorism there is. Countries around the world have seen clearly that the Americans are using anti-terrorism to promote world hegemony.

The result is that there are more and more extremist organizations and extremists around the world.

Nationalism is generally on the rise all over the world!

To be honest, Liu Tao is not surprised at all that wars have broken out in some countries or regions.

The three-foot-thick ice is not formed in a day!

Wars are not started all of a sudden and inexplicably. There are traces to follow. It is the accumulation of contradictions that finally lead to the outbreak of war.

War is the result of the accumulation of contradictions and a development process, not a sudden outbreak in an instant.

The Zhuhai Air Show has just ended.

The major forces in Sri Lanka finally exhausted themselves and chose to stop fighting and make peace.

Sri Lanka is a founding member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, and a member of the Commonwealth, G77, the Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations. Its capital, Colombo, is known as the "Crossroads of the East".

However, since the outbreak of the civil war in 1983, this civil war has lasted for 23 years, turning the entire Sri Lanka into ruins.

Sri Lanka has become the least developed country in the world, and countless people die every year due to hunger and war.

Before the outbreak of the Sri Lankan civil war in 1983, there were 15.72 million people. According to the United Nations' estimates, the population of Sri Lanka is probably not more than 10 million, which is roughly equivalent to the level in 1960.

Now all parties in Sri Lanka have made peace, ended the war, and Sri Lanka has restored peace, but a big problem is there.

Post-war reconstruction in Sri Lanka!

Sri Lanka has become a ruin, with no money to buy food and no money for post-war reconstruction.

Even the humanitarian aid of the United Nations is far from meeting Sri Lanka's needs.

Sure enough, less than a month after the war ended, on Christmas Eve, the eve of Christmas in the West, the civil war in Sri Lanka broke out again.

It's just that the civil war broke out again in Sri Lanka, and there was no news heat at all in the international community.

Maybe it's because the civil war in Sri Lanka has been going on for too many years, and everyone has lost interest in the civil war in Sri Lanka.

Maybe it's because Sri Lanka is at the edge of geopolitics and doesn't attract much attention.

To be honest, the United States has thought about intervening in Sri Lanka, because once it controls Sri Lanka, it will have the most important strategic fulcrum in the Indian Ocean and can maintain a huge influence in the Indian Ocean.

But the CIA gave up after ten years of efforts.

Sri Lanka is really too complicated, with religion, culture, ethnicity, etc. mixed together. It is too difficult to make Sri Lanka really achieve peace and unity!

Unless the United States invests tens of billions of dollars or even hundreds of billions of dollars here, spends countless energy and efforts, and spends several years or even ten years to complete the transformation of Sri Lanka.

But is the United States willing to pay such a high price?

The United States simply cannot pay such a price to support such a country.

The United States is not a philanthropist!

The national strength of the United States is not infinite, but limited.

Liu Tao was speechless when he saw that Sri Lanka had only ceased fighting for a month and then the civil war broke out again.

This armistice agreement is better to be called a rest agreement. All parties rest for a month to recuperate and have the energy to fight again.

To be honest, Liu Tao didn't know how to restore peace in Sri Lanka, because it was too complicated, both internally and externally.

This is also an important reason why the South Asian Alliance did not include Sri Lanka.

Even South India, which is the closest, had to strengthen patrols in the sea to prevent Sri Lankan refugees from entering.

Anyone who plunges into Sri Lanka will probably find it difficult to achieve anything. (End of this chapter)