Chapter 1165 Great changes in the world situation
Just a few years ago, during the reign of President Clinton, the United States was still full of prosperity. However, after Bush came to power, the situation in the United States changed so much that they could not believe that this was the trusted president they elected, which completely brought the entire United States into hell.
Bush was hard to tell, and under Clinton's halo, he seemed to have become a complete loser.
The Secretary of State went to Europe in person to lobby, but the attitude of European countries was very firm, and the United States must gradually withdraw their troops from Europe.
Although it can be maintained for the time being, the US withdrawal plan must be formulated, and European defense will be completed more by the Europeans themselves.
In the United States, the impeachment process for Bush also began. Bush made a serious mistake and completely pulled the US economy to a low point. The Democratic Party brought out the economic development of the United States during the Clinton era and the treasury savings. Compared with now, Bush would not have found a piece of tofu to kill him.
This incident led to a serious economic recession in the United States and the formation of a new world pattern. The recession in the United States is in sharp contrast with the revival of Europe and the rise of the Middle East.
Two months later, Bush stepped down from office amidst domestic scolding and became one of the only impeached presidents in American history. The vice president came to power, but in the face of the domestic and foreign situation, there was still no solution.
At this time, the separatist forces in Turkey were becoming more and more intense. The Turkish government used aircraft and cannons to treat the Kurdistans who were about to be split. At this time, the Arabs announced that the eastern part of Turkey was a no-fly zone and various fighter planes were prohibited from flying on it. Turkey was very indignant about this. However, facing the Arabs who could not even defeat the Americans, Türkiye had to suffer the consequences and did not challenge the Iraqis.
The Kurds' wishes for many years were finally realized, and they successfully established their own country, Kurdistan, this country, was immediately recognized by the Arab world.
However, most of the ** people were Kurds originally in Turkey. As for the Kurds originally in Iran and Iraq, they chose to stay more because their living standards were already very high at this time, and they didn't expect that the country that was still mainly engaged in animal husbandry.
The establishment of Kurdistan made them very grateful to Iraq. Without the strong support of Iraq, the Kurdish people's victory would be almost impossible.
So, when Iraq proposed to lease the original US garrison air base, they immediately agreed.
In this way, the eastern part of the Mediterranean has been fully contained in Iraq's control. From the base in Kurdistan in the north to the air force base in Libya in the south, any surface ship will be attacked by the fighter jets deployed here in Iraq.
The United States began negotiations with the Arab world. Tens of thousands of captured American soldiers were still staying in Iraq's prisoners of war camps. Needless to say, the food they provided every day was a expense.
Originally, the United States thought that Iraq would make various claims of compensation and shirk responsibility for the war, but they did not expect that Iraq's demands were very low. In addition to asking the United States to lift the freezing of assets of Arab countries, it means that the United States needs to pay Iraq's meal fees for the past few months.
This request almost made Powell, who came to negotiate, burst into tears. They were ready. If Iraq proposed a war reparation of hundreds of millions of dollars, even though their economy was now in recession, it would still be accepted, because the families of these prisoners of war had conducted many demonstrations at home to protest the government's inaction.
What Tarik, who came to negotiate, said at the press conference moved countless people and criticized the shamelessness of Iraqis.
"In the recorded history of mankind, there was no war, and there was less than a hundred years in total. Peace has always been a luxury. We Arabs also deeply felt this. In the less than a hundred years since Iraq got rid of colonial rule, we almost all survived wars and turmoil, so we feel the preciousness of peace even more. This large-scale military conflict between us and the United States is not our original intention. We are not afraid of any war, nor have nuclear deterrence. However, we still pray for peace. Therefore, for peace, we are willing to put these soldiers far away from our hometown back to their own land. Moreover, we also welcome that they come here to travel at any time. War is a game for politicians. For civilians, what they hope is to have a cup of hot coffee in their own homes, accompany their families, and live a peaceful and stable life."
The peace agreement was reached, and no matter what the United States looked at, it was a complete loser. At the end, Powell still felt a lot of embarrassment because Iraq refused to use US dollars to settle the settlement for the meal fee paid to Iraq.
In the past few months, the US dollar has depreciated by 40%. The foreign exchange reserves of various countries have begun to greatly reduce the US dollar and start to store more euros and A Yuan. Iraq is facing the valueless US dollars in the treasury, so how can it be willing to collect the US dollar again?
In desperation, Powell agreed to use the gold reserved in the United States to settle the settlement.
In addition to these prisoners of war, the rest were American equipment. During the naval battle, Iraq seized several warships including the USS Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the Aegis cruiser, and also salvaged a US B-52 bomber. These things are still American until now. Moreover, Iraq has undergone some maintenance and the damaged parts have been restored.
Prisoners of war Iraq can be given away almost for free, but Iraq cannot give these equipment in vain. Especially since Iraq helped the Americans repair these warships, Americans must pay some funds.
The price indicated by Kusai is 500 million yuan. However, Tarik, who is familiar with Kusai's temper, opened his mouth and the amount had already become 1.5 billion yuan during the negotiations.
At that time, Americans will bargain again, which will reflect their generosity.
But in the end, what no one expected was that the United States disagreed and they made a claim that Tarik would never have imagined. Rather, Iraq invested 1.5 billion US dollars, even if the Americans sold all these warships to Iraq.
The Americans don't want these warships anymore.
It’s not that the Americans don’t want it, but because the United States can no longer maintain such a huge military expenditure. Faced with domestic problems, they can only reduce various expenses. Many domestic development projects have been cut off, and even the F-22 fighter jets that are about to enter service cannot be fully allocated.
There has been a trend of immigration in the United States. In the past, others immigrated to the United States, but now, they immigrated from the United States to Europe and some to the Middle East, but after all, they are a minority.
Under such circumstances, the Americans would rather sell these warships back at high prices than to Iraq directly. The United States has decided to maintain the size of the five aircraft carrier battle groups and reduce its strength by half.
Of course, Iraq will not spend $1.5 billion. These warships were seized by Iraq. Why should Iraq invest? After difficult negotiations between the two sides, Iraq finally paid $50 million, and all of these warships were taken over. The 50 million US dollars mainly requires the United States to provide dismantling and processing technology for nuclear reactors.
The United States knows that since these warships have been carefully studied by Iraq for several months, all the secrets inside are no longer secrets.
For Iraq, there are indeed many things on these warships that they are more interested in. They have figured out the main structure of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and will play a very important role in designing their next-generation aircraft carriers.
In addition to the American problem, another problem is the Jews.
Iraq has sent troops to control all Jews in settlements. As for the original purpose, Iraq can attack Israeli troops, Israeli government heads and others. However, Iraq must not massacre for ordinary Jewish civilians.
Due to the grievances over the years, even if the Iraqis do not take action, they are afraid that some extremist organizations will take action. Moreover, this behavior will be encouraged by ignorant people. Therefore, Iraq has controlled all the Jews in advance and protected them.
The entire land is already Palestinian land. Iraq will station troops in Haifa and Tel Aviv and other places. Iraq's Mediterranean fleet will use Haifa as its home port.
And the question of how these Jews were placed has also begun to become realistic.
At this moment, the Jewish forces in the United States finally began to act and sent representatives to negotiate with the Iraqi government.
Zionists know that their dreams have been shattered, so what they need to do now is to rescue their compatriots. Iraq will never allow them to stay there, and even if they allow them, they will not be safe to continue to be there.
In the eighteenth century, there were only hundreds of Jews here, before World War II, there were only 40,000 Jews here, and after World War II, there were 600,000 Jews here. After that, through continuous migration and reproduction, the scale of six million Jews here reached the scale of six million Jews.
So, how will Iraq treat these Jews?
Chapter completed!