The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Liu Tao took a breath.

These happened recently, but he didn't know about them.

He didn't expect there would be so many new situations. It turned out that many of them could not be understood just by watching the news.

"Are the Americans crazy? They demanded 400 billion US dollars in compensation? The compensation claims against the defeated countries in World War II were far less than this number!" Liu Tao smacked his lips.

400 billion US dollars, this is an astronomical amount of wealth. The Americans proposed this armistice condition not for a ceasefire at all.

Not to mention the current Iraq, even Iraq before the outbreak of the war could not afford such a huge amount of money.

Besides, even if there was, I'm afraid that this money could be used to buy a lot of mushroom bombs. Who would pay such a large sum of money with mushroom bombs in hand?

"The Americans just don't want a ceasefire. They just want to destroy Iraq, occupy Iraq, and take Iraq's oil resources for themselves!" Prince Sultan said angrily: "How can you put forward such conditions? Even if you sell Iraq, you may not be able to sell it for so much money."

A discerning person can see at a glance that the Americans have no intention of stopping the fire at all, but to continue fighting.

The Americans were planning to destroy Iraq.

All Arab countries were very dissatisfied with this. The Arab coalition did not work or make any effort during this period, and even made trouble, making it impossible for the Americans to launch attacks on Iraq. Even the American air strikes could only be carried out by carrier-based aircraft taking off from aircraft carriers. Aircraft on land airports could not take off, and they had to guard against the Arab coalition.

Liu Tao sighed secretly, the Americans were too obvious and too unkind.

In fact, from the perspective of the losses of both sides, Iraq's losses were much greater than those of the multinational coalition.

The air strikes launched by the US military against Iraq caused direct economic losses of more than 200 billion US dollars to Iraq. The photos of Iraq being bombed horribly have long been spread all over the world, making the world feel the cruelty of war.

As for casualties, the large number of civilian casualties alone are enough to prove the intensity of the bombing. And the military casualties are at least more than 200,000.

This war is definitely a serious blow to Iraq.

As a result, Saddam announced that he would accept a ceasefire, but the Americans obviously did not want a ceasefire.

Prince Sultan and Prince Fahd also began to explain the purpose of their visit, which was to help drive away the Americans.

"The Middle East is the Middle East of the Arabs. The Middle East should be ruled by the Arabs themselves. We will promote the integration of the Arab League. After the war, we will retain a well-trained Arab coalition army. The Arab coalition army will reach 300,000 people. This 300,000-strong army will maintain peace in the Arab world. We will strive to achieve political, economic, cultural and military integration, and will achieve integration earlier than Europe." Prince Sultan said with expectation.

The Arab League, also known as the Arab League, is a regional international organization established to strengthen the unity and cooperation of Arab countries. It is also the earliest regional organization established in the world today. There are currently 22 member states, and the purpose is to strengthen close cooperation among member states, safeguard the independence and sovereignty of Arab countries, and coordinate each other's activities.

But it is obvious that the current goal of the Arab League has changed and is beginning to move towards the integration of the Arab world.

It can only be said that the influence of the European Community is extremely far-reaching and affects all parts of the world.

In 1950, French Foreign Minister Schuman issued a statement (the "Schuman Plan"), suggesting that France and Germany establish a coal and steel community. In 1952, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg formally established the European Coal and Steel Community. In 1958, the six countries established the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community. In 1967, the main institutions of the three communities merged and were collectively called the European Community.

This is undoubtedly a lesson learned by Europe from the First World War and the Second World War, and it intends to seek European integration and achieve political, economic and military integration step by step.

Now the European Community has reached the point of signing the Treaty on European Union, thus taking a big step forward on the basis of the European Community and evolving into the European Union, namely the European Union.

The European Union, unlike the European Community, is already a European economic and political community. At this point, regional integration has been further strengthened, and it is only a matter of time before the European Union's unified currency is launched.

And now, the Arab League is obviously also learning from Europe.

But to be honest, Liu Tao is not very optimistic. European integration is the painful lesson of World War I and World War II. In order to avoid a new world war in Europe, Europeans explored it. Europe is the birthplace and development place of modern industrial civilization. Even after World War II, Europe quickly completed its reconstruction. Many countries have reached the level of developed countries. The people are well educated and are truly modern countries. Europe is also integrating step by step and trying to resolve differences. This is why we have the present and the EU that is about to be born.

However, the Arab world is still an emirate. It can't be said that it is a modern industrial country. These countries have no industry except oil.

As for education, it is even worse than China.

The Arab world is a third world country!

Although these countries are all Islamic countries, Islam is also divided into factions. Islam is mainly divided into two major factions, Sunni and Shia, and there are great contradictions between them.

Not to mention, these countries have a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Countries like Saudi Arabia, which have abundant oil and can export a large amount of oil every year, can count money without doing anything. Even if the royal family takes out a small part, the people can live quite well. But for those who don't have too many oil resources, they are very poor.

It is much more difficult for the Arab League to achieve integration than European integration.

There is no hope for at least 30 years.

However, Liu Tao is also happy to watch the integration of the Arab League. The situation of multiple powers is much better than the bipolar structure or the one superpower and multiple powers structure.

Liu Tao is also thinking about how to make the United States leave the Middle East as soon as possible.

It is definitely impossible to make the United States leave the Middle East willingly.

Americans would like to stay in the Middle East forever, and control the Middle East as the world's energy center.

Therefore, Americans must be forced to leave the Middle East passively.

And in order to force Americans to leave the Middle East, something more important than the Middle East must happen.

There are only two options here. One option is the United States. If something big happens in their base camp, they will naturally have to transfer troops back. Another option is Europe, which is the most important overseas interest of the United States.

Once Europe is lost, the United States will no longer be a hegemon.

Therefore, the United States cannot afford the consequences of losing Europe and must choose Europe.

After all, compared with the Asian, European and African continents, America is actually just a world island.