The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

As if he had thought of something.

King Fahd finally thought that he had a powerful weapon in his hand.

Thirty-five powerful weapons!

He said with a serious face: "Dongfeng Express purchased from the East, we must show this powerful weapon at a critical moment, so that Saddam, the bastard, will be careful. As long as he dares to let his army invade us, I will send him some good things with Dongfeng Express!"

"By the way, is Dongfeng Express available?" King Fahd looked at Prince Sultan.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured! The Air Defense Force has completed training and can be put into the war at any time. As long as Your Majesty gives an order, Dongfeng Express will be launched soon!" Prince Sultan said, he was still very clear about this matter, "Friends from the East, they are very serious, the bases have been built, and the training is also very serious."

"That's good!" King Fahd showed satisfaction.

"Your Majesty, now our 'Aegis' air defense missiles are enough to ensure the safety of Riyadh. As long as the Iraqi planes come, they will come and go. We will fight them one by one!" Prince Sultan said confidently.

Iraq does not have medium-range missiles, but only short-range missiles, and short-range missiles are not enough to accurately strike targets in Riyadh.

Besides, Riyadh has deployed half of Saudi Arabia's 'Aegis' air defense missile system, half of the Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and a quarter of the 'Vanguard' air defense missiles. The air defense capability is still very strong.

"By the way, how are our friend's mercenaries? How many are there now?" King Fahd asked.

Since the situation began to become a little tense, in order to be on the safe side, Saudi Arabia began to increase the employment of mercenaries.

"At present, there are 10,000 mercenaries of our friends in our country, and another 10,000 will arrive in the next period of time!" Prince Sultan said. He is in charge of this matter and he is very clear about the current progress.

"With these 20,000 mercenaries, our armed forces will be much stronger." King Fahd showed satisfaction.

These mercenaries are called mercenaries, but King Fahd knows that they are actually an army, a well-trained army, and they have been on the battlefield.

Fahd has dealt with the previous mercenaries before, and he is very satisfied with their performance.

Saudi soldiers refuse to train when the weather is a little hot, when the training intensity is a little increased, and when the food is a little worse, they will make trouble.

However, the training intensity of mercenaries is more than ten times greater than that of Saudi soldiers, and they never complain about hardship and fatigue, and the food they eat is far worse than that of Saudi soldiers.

Therefore, these mercenaries undertake a considerable part of the national defense tasks.

This time, in order to strengthen national defense, under the authorization of the king, an agreement was urgently signed with the security company to increase the number of mercenaries to 20,000.

Although it was an agreement signed with dozens of security companies, King Fahd knew that the same force was behind it.

"Order all domestic troops to prepare to resist the invasion of Iraq and publicly condemn Saddam for affecting regional peace. At the same time, Dongfeng Express and air defense forces are ready to broadcast the launch exercise to the whole country when necessary!" King Fahd said firmly.

Now, Saudi Arabia has no way out.

If it is not tough, then what awaits Saudi Arabia may be the overthrow of the dynasty!

At that time, their royal family will have to go into exile abroad.

Although the Saudi royal family also has many assets overseas, even if they are in exile abroad, they can live well, but everyone knows that exile abroad is not as comfortable as owning Saudi Arabia, which can earn a lot of money every year through oil exports.

Therefore, unless it is really at the last moment, the Saudi royal family will never give up Saudi Arabia and go to Europe and the United States to be rich and idle.

At this time, Iraq mobilized armored forces to the Kuwait border and the Saudi border, which changed the situation in the whole world.

As the world's energy center, any disturbance in the Middle East will spread to the world immediately.

And the first reaction is the oil price.

The international oil futures trading price began to rise slightly.

Those who had previously made up for their losses by going long on international oil futures made up for their losses in just one day.

For oil importing countries, the rise in oil prices is not a good thing.

But for oil exporting countries, it is definitely a great thing.

And the ones who are most happy to see this are the Soviet Union and the oil-producing countries in Latin America.

The Soviet Union is also a major oil producer in the world. It can make a lot of profits by exporting oil every year, and then import other items needed by the Soviet Union, so that the Soviet Union's economy has been maintained.

The importance of oil exports to the Soviet Union is self-evident.

The high oil price means that the Soviet Union can make more money by exporting the same amount of oil.

Several oil-producing countries in Latin America have received a lot of investment from the United States in recent years, and their oil production has been rising. The economic development of these oil-producing countries is very fast, and they have all emerged from the predicament of the economic crisis.

If there are problems in the Middle East and oil prices rise, the United States, Canada and Europe will increase oil imports from Latin America, and these oil-producing countries in Latin America can earn a lot of US dollars.

In Latin America, the best currency is the US dollar.

For the Soviet Union and Latin American oil-producing countries, they wish that oil would reach $100 a barrel, or even higher.

The higher the price of oil, the better it is for the Soviet Union and the Latin American oil-producing countries.

For those energy giants, the rise in oil prices is naturally a good thing. After all, they can earn more lucrative profits. These energy giants control many oil fields. When oil prices rise, the rising part is all profit.

As for the damage to the country, what does it have to do with the energy giants?

This is a market mechanism. What does it matter if you are dissatisfied?

Everything has two sides. When someone cries, someone laughs; when someone is sad, someone revels.

This involves game.

In the futures market and the stock market, there is a game between shorts and longs.

In international relations, there is a game between countries.

For example, this time in Iraq, although Saddam had personal ambitions and always wanted to expand his territory, have more oil, and gain the dominance of the Gulf region, there were also Americans behind the scenes who fanned the flames and secretly worked to instigate Iraq.

If the Americans had a tough attitude and strongly opposed Saddam's destruction of regional peace, Saddam would not have such courage.

Not only the United States, but also another superpower, the Soviet Union, acquiesced in Saddam's behavior.

In the final analysis, except for a very few countries, the shadows of the United States and the Soviet Union can be seen behind most countries and regions.

The bipolar structure is not just a joke, it is real and affects every corner and every field of the world.

It's just that the two sides compete more and cooperate less.

However, in some aspects, the two sides have common interests and often cooperate, and the cooperation is very tacit.

The biggest example is that the two sides worked together to force Britain and France to lose control of the Suez Canal.