When everyone heard Powell's words, they were all inspiring. They gathered together to discuss solutions to emergency responses. Now when he heard Powell so confident, he was waiting for his brilliant plan.

Although there is no reason for the United States to ravage a country, now the United States cannot dispatch it rashly. Once a war breaks out in the Middle East, it may be the second Vietnam, which is related to global energy security. The United States is now in a difficult situation, and no matter what choice it makes, it will be very difficult.

"Our biggest problem now is that Iraq, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have formed a stable alliance. Our action did not serve the expected purpose, but instead pushed Saudi Arabia to Iraq. This is our mistake."

"Powell, please tell me the key points and just tell me your plan." Cheney said impatiently, why do you have to lay the groundwork? Isn't this accusing them of making mistakes in their work?"

"Faced with the current situation, we can analyze that Iraq is our biggest enemy. Therefore, for Iraq, we should change our strategy, and our attitude towards Iraq must be absolutely tough!" Powell paused and continued: "We want to unite with NATO countries to carry out an economic blockade on Iraq. Iraq seems very powerful now, but many of its industrial aspects still depend on our Western world. Without us, their industry would not have been able to develop. Through the blockade, we will stagnate Iraq's industry and increase the unemployment rate, stop their domestic technology, and even make the current situation in the Soviet Union happen in their country."

The West has been banning the Soviet Union in high-tech terms, and Powell demanded a full-scale blockade of Iraq.

"But we need enough reason," Brent said.

"Reason? Do we Americans need reasons for sanctioning anyone?" Secretary of State James took over the conversation and said, "Didn't we have already embargoed Pakistan now? Our reasons can be found at any time, such as Iraq's domestic human rights issues, such as whether they have weapons of mass destruction prohibited in international conventions, and for example, there is a sudden terrorist incident against our civilians in the world. We can all have enough evidence to convince that it was done by Iraq."

If you want to inflict a crime, there is no retribution. The United States has long been used to making trouble for countries around the world. Their starting point is good, that is, for the interests of the United States.

During the Afghan War, in order to fight against the Soviet invasion, the United States began to fight Pakistan in a hot battle. Advanced F-16 fighter jets were also exported to Pakistan, giving Pakistan an effective means to fight the Soviet Air Force.

However, with the withdrawal of the Soviet Union, the honeymoon period between the United States and Pakistan was over.

When the third batch of Pakistan and the United States entered the Peace Gate Plan, the United States re-examined it and was sure that these aircraft might become Pakistan's nuclear weapons carriers, so it refused to provide Pakistan with it. Pakistan has paid a deposit of 70 US dollars in the fourth batch of 60 F-16s, and this deposit will no longer be refunded.

The Americans have very good reasons. This batch of aircraft has been produced, so the deposit cannot be refunded. However, because this batch of aircraft may be used for illegal purposes, the United States is not allowed to deliver it to Pakistan. Pakistan paid his wife and soldier and got nothing. As for Pakistan's nuclear weapons, the mystery is still unsolved at this time.

Everything is decided by the United States in South Asia. The United States believes that maintaining good relations with India can restrain the major northern powers, which is the better choice for the United States, so they imposed an arms embargo on Pakistan.

Fortunately, Pakistan no longer relies on the J-6 to support its market like later generations. Their fleet has begun to replace the Iraq-made Super Seven fighter jets, and Iraq has also equipped their fleets with Sky Flash missiles.

This is true for Pakistan and Iraq, of course.

The United States should clearly express its attitude and find an excuse to sanction Iraq! Blockade and sanction will gradually decline Iraq, the newly rising giant!

"As for the effects of Bahrain, Qatar, and UAE, they are still waiting and watching and have not completely broken up with us. We want them to benefit from various benefits, win over them, and bring them to our side. For example, Bahrain's Jafar Naval Base, we must never return them to Bahrain. We also need to expand the existence of this base and moor more warships." Powell continued.

In this way, Powell and Bush think similarly to attack the leaders, appease the hesitant and unstable, and destroy the unity of the Arab world.

"However, it may take a long time to implement your plan. We cannot let Iraq decline within one or two years." said Zorick, the deputy secretary of state in charge of economic and trade affairs. It will take a long time to gradually decline through blockades, because Iraq has the richest oil resources in the world! To be honest, Zorick also has a skeptical attitude of whether this proposal can work.

"So, when setting up these plans, we must also plan for war." Powell continued: "The proposal just now is one aspect, and another aspect, we must garrison here and here."

Following the position Powell pointed, two black shadows appeared on the screen displayed by the projector on the wall. They were Powell's fingers. However, although it was a black shadow, their eyes lit up.

Those two locations, one is Israel and the other is Yemen!

These two locations are the northern part of the Middle East, along the Mediterranean coast, the southern part of the Middle East, and the western part of the Arabian Sea. This is like a big mouth that bites the Middle East.

Among the two countries, Israel is a firm ally of the United States. In history, the United States has never stationed troops in Israel. That is because the Israeli army is already strong enough to be able to hit all the Arab countries around. Therefore, the United States has stationed troops in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and other countries, but there is no need to station troops in Israel.

But now, the Arab world is becoming more and more powerful and unified. Israel has long felt the personal threat. No matter what unpleasant things have happened between the two sides, it is already a thing of the past. If the United States proposes to garrison, Israel may agree with it. Therefore, it is not difficult to rent Israel's base.

However, the biggest problem is that it will attract hatred around you. You must know that the people of Arab countries have no good impression of the United States. If the United States stationed troops here, it will further intensify the conflict between Israel and the surrounding Arab world, and the situation here will become more difficult to control.

Another place, Yemen, is located in a better location, guarding the exit of the Red Sea. In the northern part of the Gulf of Aden, it has a long coastline and excellent ports, which are very suitable for the stationing of American ships and the transportation of materials.

Moreover, Yemen has been a turbulent country until now, poor and backward. The United States can easily make Yemen obey the American arrangements at a very small price. Moreover, the economic gap between Yemen and the wealthy Arab countries has led to dialogue between them. More importantly, there have been several conflicts between Yemen and Saudi Arabia due to border issues, and their relationship is very bad.

As long as the United States builds agents, Yemen becomes the spokesperson of the United States, and stations troops in Yemen, it can look north to the entire Arab world and deter them!

Yemen is a very good choice to attack and retreat.

"The CIA closely monitors the situation in Yemen and is ready to show our presence in Yemen. We will complete the garrison in Yemen within half a year." Bush finally made up his mind.

Within half a year, because Bush must solve the Middle East problems during his term and provide him with an opportunity for re-election.

Yemen is the most important breakthrough.

"At the same time, because Iraq took the initiative to provoke and shot down our fighter jets, we must impose all-round sanctions on Iraq, including military, economic, industrial, and all-round sanctions. We must unite with Western Europe to completely squeeze out Iraq's processing industry."

Speaking of the processing industry, Bush has an ironic meaning. In his eyes, Iraq now has no scientific research capabilities. Iraq's seemingly powerful industry will gradually decline due to blockade, and those production lines will eventually turn into a pile of scrap iron and rags.

Bush didn't know that he miscalculated two things. First, Iraq's scientific research capabilities. Iraq's industry rose up through comprehensive imports. However, Iraq now has a large number of scientific researchers, including Iraq's own country, Middle East, European, Eastern powers, and more importantly, a large number of technicians in the Soviet Union. They were very satisfied with the generous treatment and salary provided by Iraq and came to this emerging industrialized country.

Second, NATO is definitely not a monolithic piece. The United States can choose to get more oil imports from Canada, but European countries that are short of oil must import from the Middle East. Now Iraq has the world's largest original reserves. Moreover, Iraq directly enters the Mediterranean oil pipeline through Syria. After repair and expansion, its transportation capacity is three times that of the original.

This proposal from the United States did not reach a consensus within NATO, and eventually became a blockade of the United States. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to Piaotian. Registered members of the literature recommend this work. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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