Brightman looked at the young man in front of him and knew that the senior U.S. government officials had made a mistake in their plan.

The United States can put pressure on Iraq, but it cannot target the entire Arab world. In particular, there are oil-producing powers Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

If Saudi Arabia and Kuwait take the initiative to invite the United States, the United States can officially enter the Persian Gulf, but now, the United States is on the bench and no one is aiming at the United States.

Maybe, you can think of another way! Brightman made his own decision and said, "So, since it is a joint sea-air exercise, can our US Navy participate?"

"It's totally OK," said Kusai. "However, the United States has to join the Arab League first."

The League of Arab States is a regional international organization established to strengthen the joint and cooperation of Arab countries, referred to as the Arab League or the Arab League. It was born in March 1945. At that time, representatives of seven Arab countries, including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen, held a meeting in Cairo, passed the Treaty of the League of Arab States, proclaiming the establishment of the alliance, and then other Arab countries gradually joined. The purpose of the Arab League is to strengthen close cooperation between member states, safeguard the presidency and sovereignty of Arab countries, and coordinate each other's activities.

Originally, Egypt was the boss without surprise, but Egypt had privately negotiated with Israel, and was scoffed by other Arab countries, and was also expelled from the Arab League. Now, in the Arab League, Saudi Arabia and Iraq already have the aura of leadership.

"Why?" Brightman asked. It was absolutely impossible to get the United States to join the Arab League.

"Because this is a collaborative exercise in our Arab League," Kusai said: "Mr. Ambassador, I hope you can understand that this is the world of our Arabs. We ourselves are fully capable of defending our own safety. This kind of small matter of escort is really not to bother your navy. We will thank your government for me first."

Kusai said this, which made Brightman embarrassed, but as a diplomat, he still has the necessary cultivation. Kusai means that he definitely does not want the United States to interfere in Gulf affairs?

It seems that the United States needs to put some pressure on it.

"Sorry, Mr. Kusai, it seems we cannot agree on these issues." Brightman said, and we have to report these things to the government to see what the government's countermeasures are.

"I forgot to tell you something." Kusai said: "Prince Sultan is currently in Baghdad. Before returning to see you, he had visited our newly-entered Phantom 4000 fighter in the south. He was very interested in this fighter and proposed a purchase intention. We will introduce a Phantom 4000 production line this year, and at that time, we will mass-produce this latest heavy fighter in Europe."

What did Cusey come up with this? Brightman thought for a moment and understood. This is telling the United States: Don’t use the original means to ban the arms sales!

The United States has now exported an F-20 production line to Iraq, which is one of the Americans' bargaining chips. If Iraq does anything too much, it can sanction the raw materials that need to be imported on the production line at any time and ban the sale. In this way, the production line will be abandoned.

Kusai said this now, which is to tell the United States that if the United States dares to use this move, Iraq will also take it: first seal the F-20 production line and transfer these skilled workers to the Phantom 4000 production line! Then, the US ban on sales will not affect Iraq, but will cause great losses to Northrop.

The US sanctions are ineffective for France. Because France has withdrawn from NATO, any French behavior does not require the US authorization. For Dassault, exporting such heavy fighter jets will definitely make a lot of profits. It seems that the ideas of the senior management are somewhat inappropriate!

Seeing Brightman's expression change, Cusey admired the president of the Fifth Republic of France, General Charles de Gaulle.

After World War II, France was nominally wearing the halo of a victorious country, but its comprehensive national strength and international influence plummeted. Like other European countries, Eastern Europe had a policy of flattering the Soviet Union in the cracks of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Eastern Europe accepted the United States as its leader.

It was not until December 1958 that Charles de Gaulle was elected as the first president of the Fifth Republic of France. After Charles de Gaulle came to power, he implemented a series of tough foreign policies; safeguarding national prestige and striving to be a major power; being both alliance with the United States and the United States, being firm and dialogue with the Soviet Union, breaking the bipolar pattern of the United States and the Soviet Union, and promoting the multipolarization of the world; establishing a "European Europe" with France as the core!

These policies were later called "De Gaulleism". The Charles de Gaulle government not only insisted on developing the nuclear power, but also proposed to be on par with the United States and Britain within the North Atlantic Alliance. Naturally, it would not satisfy the United States. After being rejected by the United States, De Gaulle angrily withdrew from NATO military integration in 1966. From then on, France's status as a major power was reestablished.

There is an alien like France, and the United States is sometimes helpless, such as now.

Moreover, if Saudi Arabia also purchases such fighter jets, it will have an impact on US policies. Saudi Arabia is pro-US, and the United States treats Saudi Arabia very well. Saudi Arabia can even buy F-15 fighter jets, the main force of the US Air Force, and it is very dependent on the United States. However, if Saudi Arabia purchases Phantom 4000, this situation will change greatly.

Things are a bit tricky!

"And, on the way back to Baghdad, Prince Sultan heard that we had a tank production line in Baghdad, and he was also very interested. He hoped that after the talks with you, he would go to this tank production line to see it. It is very likely that Saudi Arabia will also equip the tanks on our production line." Kusai continued.

If Saudi Arabia equipped the Phantom 4000, which made the United States unable to accept it, then the tank on the Saudi Arabia equipped Iraqi production line will make Brightman feel even more unacceptable, because that tank is a T-72 from the Soviet Union in the north!

Although this tank is already produced on the Iraqi production line, a tank with Soviet ancestry equipped with pro-American Saudi Arabia will be very embarrassing to the United States. This tank will not provide the United States with trials for their target shooting.

Looking at Brightman's expression, Kusai enjoyed it very much. No matter what, before the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States would never focus all its energy on the Middle East. It would be nice to carry the Soviet Union out as a shield at the right time. However, if Prince Sultan can be satisfied this time, it would be a good choice to order the next batch of tanks on his own production line.

In fact, since the tank production line was transported from the Soviet Union, installed and officially put into production, Kusai has not been there several times, because Kusai, which holds the power, has been too much trouble.

However, now I am very interested in seeing Prince Sultan. Kusai also knows that it is time to take him there and take a look. When guests come, they must show him the good things at home, right?

"Thank you for your hard work in the chief engineer." Kusai entered the tank production plant and saw Kartsev, who was already gray-haired, wearing the same uniform as an ordinary worker, and there was still some oil on his hands. It seemed that he had come from the production line after knowing that he was here.

On the contrary, Kartsev had nothing. Since he came to Iraq, he has adapted to life here, especially the T-72 tank equipped with a 6TD engine, which has begun trial production.

Kartsev has been engaged in the tank career all his life, so he doesn't feel hard to work with the tank all day, especially with a good reward.

Prince Sultan looked at the old Soviet man with a little surprised look. Why is this Excellency Kusai so powerful? Isn’t this person a famous tank designer in the Soviet Union?

Sultan is the Minister of Defense and naturally has a lot of understanding of these.

"I'm very happy to see you," Sultan said: "I didn't expect that Iraq actually invited such a good master of world-class modern tanks."

"The prince has been awarded too much," said Kartsev. From the notice, he knew that the person in front of him was Prince Sultan of Saudi Arabia.

With the help of the translator, the two sides exchanged a few greetings, and then walked into the production workshop.

Although Saudi Arabia also equipped a large number of tanks, Prince Sultan still doesn't know how the tanks were produced.

Here, I saw a huge production line where workers were busy nervously. Among these people, there were both Iraqis and Soviets. Under their hands, the shapes of various tank parts were gradually formed.

When introducing production lines, workers had to be retrained, so Kusai invited a group of workers from the Soviet Union to come back with a high salary and came to Iraq with Kartsev.

"Chief Engineer, how are we doing now?" asked Kusai.

"Our production line is in orderly production. Because the front armor ordered from China has not arrived yet, the assembly is still waiting. However, most of the vehicle body and turret have been built. It is expected that the first batch of tanks, about 30, will be able to complete production next month and equip the troops." Kartsev said.

Armor is a core secret, so while introducing tank production lines, armor still needs to be imported directly from the Soviet Union.

"Where are our diesel engines produced?" asked Kusai.

"The production line of the 6td diesel engine is also under normal operation. More than 20 diesel engines have been produced for the first batch of finished diesel engines." Kartsev said.

Although the progress is not as high as Kusai hopes, the first batch of Iraq's own tanks will soon be in active service. Kusai is still very happy. After production stabilizes, the annual output will be a scale of hundreds of vehicles, which is enough to equip the Iraqi Army.

At that time, it will be the time for the Army to undergo a major blood change. (To be continued)

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