The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 714 Never Learned a Lesson
"Hahaha~~"

At the Panshan Group headquarters, loud laughter broke out in the office.

When the war broke out, international crude oil prices soared, and he naturally made a lot of money by going long on oil futures.

Just from this wave, at least more than 200 billion US dollars was earned!
He knew that oil prices would definitely rise sharply, but he did not expect it to rise so quickly and so sharply.

Yes, this time the oil price rose very sharply, it was so shocking to see.

It hasn't been long since the price of oil has risen to this level.

"Go ahead and fight~~" Liu Tao drank a sip of tea happily.

It feels like watching the world with a smile.

The outcome of this war was determined from the moment it started: Kuwait could not be defended.

The gap between the military strength of the two sides is too great.

Saddam deployed 20 elite troops on the border, prepared another troops later, and mobilized troops to launch a war against Kuwait.

Kuwait's regular army has only 2.1 troops. Although they are well-equipped, they lack training and have never fought a war. In Liu Tao's opinion, these 2.1 Kuwaiti regular troops are not as good as the 5000 mercenaries.

Not to mention, the country of Kuwait is too small. It is a tiny place with no depth and no strategic locations to defend. This kind of place is too suitable for the attacker and is very suitable for mechanized troop operations.

The 5000 mercenaries can at most help teach the Iraqi army a lesson, but they will not really fight with the Iraqi army to the death, so that Kuwait will not suffer too ugly a defeat. They are mercenaries, not the regular Kuwaiti army. They do not have the ideological awareness of risking their lives, and they are not fighting for their own country.

As for the Americans' reaction, Liu Tao showed contempt.

Americans are very good at playing this kind of conspiracy and fooling people.

Before this, Saddam had tested the Americans' attitude more than once, and each time he received a positive response from the Americans.

This gave Saddam great courage to start the war.

But as soon as the war started, Americans immediately changed their attitude and condemned Iraq from a moral high ground.

It froze all Iraqi assets in the United States, as well as all Kuwaiti assets in the United States.

They are simply eyeing Iraq and Kuwait's assets in the United States and want to take this opportunity to take them into their pockets.

This way of eating is really ugly!

It's simply robbery!

This situation once again warned Liu Tao not to have any assets in the United States as the risk is too great.

"Saddam must be regretting his decision so much at this moment. He actually naively believed what the Americans said!" Liu Tao sneered.

There were so many precedents, but Saddam did not learn any lessons.

In other words, many people around the world have not learned their lesson.

Keep repeating the same mistakes in this regard.

This reminded Liu Tao of a famous saying: The only lesson we learn from history is that we have never learned any lessons from history.

Learn from history. These four short words may seem simple, but are actually extremely difficult.

What is supposed to happen will still happen!
Royal Palace, Baghdad, Iraq.

This is where Saddam lived and also where he worked.

This is also the most luxurious palace in all of Iraq!
When I woke up early in the morning, I thought it was a good news that the troops had joined together in Kuwait City or even conquered Kuwait City, but it turned out that the front line suffered huge losses.

This made Sadam's good mood suddenly turn bad.

Kuwait is a small country with few people, no strategic depth, no dangerous places, and is most suitable for mechanized troops to fight. According to the previous three military exercises, it is easy to tear up Kuwait's defense line and reach Kuwait City. He is even ready for the troops to capture all the Kuwaiti royal family alive. He wants to watch the troops surrender the prisoners in Baghdad, see the embarrassed look of the Kuwaiti royal family, and see the King of Kuwait, Emir Jaber, kneeling in front of him and begging for mercy. He will be in a good mood and let Emir Jaber dance for him, and then generously spare his life.

But who could have imagined that the war would go so badly.

Hundreds of tanks were destroyed, hundreds of aircraft were lost, and the troops had to retreat back to the border for repairs.

Even the arrogant look of that bastard Emir Jaber made him feel pain in his heart.

"Damn it! Damn these Americans!" When his confidant reported the Americans' attitude and actions, Saddam was furious.

Before this, he had tried to test the Americans' attitude three times, but the Americans always acted as if it had nothing to do with him and even revealed some information to him, making him feel that the Americans condoned his actions.

There was opposition within Iraq to the military operation against Kuwait. He felt that victory was certain and that they could easily retake Kuwait, so he made the decision against all odds and even made a national televised speech.

But who could have imagined this result.

In the Iran-Iraq War, even in a single major battle, Iraq did not suffer such heavy losses.

"Damn arms dealers, they not only sell weapons and equipment to us, but also to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait!" Saddam cursed.

There were not many losses of Type 80 main battle tanks, but there were heavy losses of Soviet tanks, American tanks, Type 59 tanks, etc.

Saddam is cursing now, but he will never make enemies with Panshan Group because there is still a batch of goods that is about to arrive at the port.

If the relationship becomes hostile now and the other party uses this as an excuse to not deliver the equipment, then Iraq will be the one that suffers.

Saddam suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into a trap deliberately dug by someone.

"Damn it!" Saddam couldn't help but tear the paper in his hand into pieces.

But now it's too late to realize that I have fallen into a trap.

Once a war starts, it cannot be stopped just like that.

Iraq’s only choice now is to be tough to the end, retake Kuwait and make Kuwait a province.

By then, with the largest oil resources and the largest oil production capacity in the world, Iraq will become a world power. After another 20 to 30 years of development, he is confident that he can lead Iraq to become the world's third superpower.

He didn't believe that Iraq had such a strong military force that the United States or the Soviet Union would attack Iraq in a big way.

If that really happens, he will have to teach them a lesson.

Saddam looked ferocious.

The only things about the United States that people can be afraid of are its navy and air force!
Even the Air Force, Saddam was not that afraid.

Libya can shoot down so many US military planes, and Iraq can do the same, or even do better.

Iraq has more anti-aircraft missiles, its army is stronger than Libya, and it also has a powerful air force!

As for the US Navy, Iraq's coastline is so short that he believes that Iraq's "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles will make the Americans afraid to approach within 100 nautical miles of the Iraqi coastline.

Once we take over Kuwait and deploy Eagle Strike anti-ship missiles, it will be enough to blockade a large area of ​​the Persian Gulf!

Saddam is not a good man. He will fight anyone who dares to come!
Iraq's regular army of 120 million people, equipped with a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, gave Saddam tremendous confidence.

What does it matter if the whole world condemns him? As long as he takes over Kuwait and controls a large amount of oil, it won't be long before those countries that condemn him will come to do business with him when they can no longer do anything to him.

The Soviet Union and the United States have always hoped that Iraq would completely side with one side, but Saddam never stood firmly on one side. Instead, he tried to be friendly with both sides, and the Soviet Union and the United States could not do anything to him.

Strength is the foundation!

Only force can give you the confidence to speak!

(End of this chapter)