The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 718 Global Live Broadcast
every day.

There will be two tankers coming from the East, carrying approximately 80 tons of oil, or 586.4 million barrels of oil, out of the Persian Gulf to Asia.

To be honest, it is impossible for Americans to say they are not jealous.

Just this one trip can bring in at least hundreds of millions of dollars in profit.

If the United States had not already fallen out with Iraq, it would have wanted to do this business itself.

It’s not that the Americans haven’t thought about disrupting the other side’s business, but they encountered great difficulties and had to give up.

The US military is now mobilizing its troops and it is estimated that it will take about half a year to be ready to launch an attack on Iraq.

After all, this is the deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops, involving a large number of personnel, equipment, ammunition, and daily necessities.

The Americans are ruthless enough this time. In order to show their military power, they are broadcasting it live to the world.

This is completely bullying the Iraqis who have no effective means of attack and attacking military bases.

Otherwise, they can attack with missiles, or raid with advanced aircraft, or attack military bases. There is no need to attack anything else, just attack the material transfer stations or ports, which will greatly slow down the speed of the Americans.

Although the US military has two aircraft carriers and other warships arrived in the Arabian Sea and entered the Persian Gulf, they refused to enter within 100 nautical miles of the coastline.

Last time in Libya, we were traumatized by Libya's use of the "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles, and we have not yet fully recovered.

And since the naval alliance of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait controls that area of ​​water, the US Navy doesn't have to worry about it.

However, this time, the U.S. Navy was shocked to see the advanced warships of the Saudi and Kuwaiti naval alliance in person.

They had received intelligence before, but once they really understood the situation, they had to admit that these warships were very advanced and the "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles they were equipped with posed a great threat to US warships.

Although we have only been in the Arabian Sea for a few days, American military officers have already complained a lot, saying that they dare to export advanced warships, which shows that they are really crazy because of poverty.

Since World War II, the U.S. Navy has become the world's number one navy and the maritime hegemon, but the United States has never exported advanced warships even to its allies.

The United States is well aware that its navy is highly dependent on advanced warships, and at least half of the navy's combat effectiveness is determined by warships.

As the hegemon of the ocean, the United States would like the navies of other countries to be weak. How could it possibly export advanced warships to other countries?

The warships exported by the United States are old and are about to be retired or have already been retired, but they can still be sold at high prices.

This phenomenon exists not only in the United States, but also in other naval powers.

Because they know the importance of advanced warships, they do not want other countries' navies to become strong by possessing advanced warships.

Panshan Group Headquarters.

A single-family villa.

Liu Tao and Liu Ziyu were eating noodles while the live broadcast was being broadcast on TV.

This time, the Americans started a global live broadcast, starting from the military preparation stage.

But Liu Tao wanted to curse because the way Americans eat is so ugly.

Weapons and equipment were all purchased from American military-industrial enterprises, without any leakage. A large part of the supplies were also purchased from the United States and then transported thousands of nautical miles to the Middle East.

China could only drink the soup and didn't get any meat at all.

Even if it was a shipping company, it was just earning some hard-earned money. This made Liu Tao, who was used to making big money, quite dissatisfied. This way of eating was simply extremely ugly.

Liu Tao learned that the weapons the Americans quoted were very expensive. A Patriot missile was priced at $60, and a Tomahawk cruise missile was worth $130 million, equivalent to 3 tons of corn.
The 39-nation coalition has pledged a total military expenditure of 1250 billion US dollars, which is a huge astronomical figure.

Even so, the Americans still felt it was not enough. Not long ago, they simultaneously sent two delegations to Europe, Japan, South Korea and the Middle East, hoping that they would increase their donations.

What's evil about Americans is not only that the weapons, equipment, ammunition and supplies they purchase are expensive, the transportation costs are also high, but they even include the equipment of their own troops in the calculations. Their accounting ability is truly powerful.

Now Americans are lobbying Congress to increase the total cost of implementing Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm by $800 billion!
Look, Americans really treat war as a business.

"I really don't understand. Isn't it good to work hard to make money? Why do we have to fight and kill!" Liu Ziyu finished her noodles, wiped her mouth with a tissue, and sat cross-legged. She couldn't stand this kind of fighting and killing.

Liu Tao also finished his noodles at this time, and said with a smile, "There's nothing I can do. People's minds are always hard to guess."

This time, Iraq was definitely cheated.

The Americans' conspiracy was to set a trap for Iraq to fall into.

Then Saddam foolishly actually jumped in.

Now, the Soviets are also going to withdraw their military advisory groups and experts. The Soviets have long maintained a military advisory group and experts of several thousand people in Iraq, which played a great role in the construction of the Iraqi army.

And more importantly, the loss of Soviet support meant that Iraq could no longer import weapons.

If the Soviet Union supported Iraq, then the weapons transportation could completely avoid going through the Persian Gulf, and large quantities of weapons could be delivered to Iraq directly by air or land. With the strength of the Soviet Union, it was capable of doing this.

As for Panshan Group, it is already very good to be able to act as a middleman, purchasing oil from Iraq and transporting it out of the Persian Gulf.

You should know that even now, the price that Panshan Group pays for oil purchased from Iraq is still as high as US$23 per barrel, and it has not tried desperately to lower the price.

Just then, Zhu Lin came out in her pajamas.

Liu Tao was too busy to take a vacation back to Beijing, so she simply brought her children to the Panshan Group headquarters.

She just took her child to bed, and when the child fell asleep, she also fell asleep for a while.

"Will this war really continue?" Zhu Lin sat down next to Liu Tao.

She doesn't have the habit of eating midnight snacks. After dinner, she would just eat some fruit and nothing else.

"We will definitely fight. The Americans have spent a lot of time and money to make this happen. How could they not attack Iraq?" Liu Tao said.

Liu Tao knew very well that the Americans would definitely fight this war because the interests involved were too great.

Just the $1250 billion alone, once fully implemented, Americans can earn at least half.

In addition, Americans are trying to get other countries to pay more and asking Congress for money. The interests here are huge.

Not to mention that if this battle is fought well, it can help the US military get out of its confusion and rebuild its confidence, and it may even change the world pattern.

Furthermore, the United States will certainly take this opportunity to strengthen its influence in the Middle East.

Now the Americans are negotiating with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and other Middle Eastern countries for the long-term lease of military bases.

The Americans have no intention of hiding what they are planning; it's all written on their faces.

(End of this chapter)