The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 765 The End of the Gulf War
A storm broke out in the Soviet Union!

Thousands of people were arrested, and no less than five hundred people were shot dead while resisting during the arrests.

Some leaders who were in meetings were taken away directly at the meeting place.

In order to catch all these people in one fell swoop, the Soviet Union mobilized the KGB, the Internal Security Forces, and the National Security Committee Border Guards.

Spies from the United States and European countries, as well as many of their subordinates, were almost uprooted.

These people hid in every corner of the Soviet Union and kept stealing Soviet military and technological intelligence.

Wanta and others were caught in one fell swoop.

Faced with the Soviet Union's powerful national strength, once exposed, there would be no possibility of survival.

Leo Vanta and others were taken to the KGB for interrogation.

Each person was detained separately and interrogated by different people.

Different people are treated differently.

For a large part, torture was started without even any interrogation at the beginning.

And there are some people who were not executed.

In this situation, within a few days, everyone's mouths were pried open, and those whose mouths were not pried open had already died cold.

When everything appeared to the higher-ups, they were furious and criticized the KGB and other relevant departments madly. After all, such a big mistake was made, it was scary to think about it.

After dealing with some people, those who have made contributions will naturally be promoted.

As the greatest contributor, Vladimir rose rapidly to prominence and was promoted more than three levels.

The Americans were the first to know what was happening inside the Soviet Union.

But faced with this kind of thing, Americans are powerless.

After all, in this kind of situation, it is the Americans who are at fault.

Now it is being destroyed because the Soviet Union was more skilled.

What made the Americans even more terrified was that the Soviets were furious and demanded that the Americans give an explanation to the Soviet Union.

The Soviet army's mobilization was known at the first opportunity.

The whole of Europe immediately withdrew its troops from the Middle East, hastily signed an armistice agreement, and transferred its troops back as quickly as possible.

Even Japan and South Korea were afraid that the Soviets would move their troops eastward, so they transferred their troops in the Middle East back to their home countries and strengthened their military deployment.

European countries strongly demanded that the US military leave the Middle East and return to its military bases in Europe.

Faced with this dilemma, the United States has no way of speaking out.

There are now two choices before Americans: either choose the Middle East or choose Europe.

Faced with this choice between the two, no matter how painful it was, the United States chose Europe.

The United States also signed an armistice agreement. The Americans' conditions changed from a claim of $4000 billion at the beginning to a claim of $100 billion in the end.

An armistice agreement was reached and U.S. troops began to withdraw from the Persian Gulf.

The first to evacuate were the US troops deployed in Türkiye on the border with Iraq.

Then the troops were continuously transported to Europe by transport planes.

In just 10 days, all US troops withdrew from the Persian Gulf.

This also means that the Gulf War is completely over.

The United States was dealing with the mess of the "Wanta Project" and had no time to pay attention to the affairs of the Middle East. The Soviet Union was very angry. Such a big mistake occurred, and it could only blame the Soviet Union itself, but now it had to teach the Americans a lesson.

The whole world's attention suddenly turned from the Middle East to Europe.

No one knows whether the two bosses will fight. If they really fight, it will definitely be a big fight, definitely not small, and it may even break out in the S3 season.

As Kuwait's oil supply capacity continues to increase, the international crude oil market has become more stable.

Even though the situation in Europe is somewhat tense now, Europe is not the world's energy center, the Middle East is!
In order to get the United States to leave, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries have also paid a price, which is to increase oil production and increase oil supply, which has suppressed the international crude oil price to below $25 per barrel.

Liu Tao was also having a headache at this time.

Because the 8 mercenaries in the Middle East have returned one after another, some of them have taken the money they earned during this period and do not want to serve in the army anymore!

After all, each person earned at least $9, and some even earned more than a million dollars.

Converted into RMB, everyone can be said to have become a wealthy man.

Although Liu Tao was troubled by this, he had to deal with it.

Some people choose to find a job and spend more time with their families, and even take this time to find a wife, because most of these mercenaries are single.

Some people choose to take a severance pay and leave completely.

Of course, there are also people who choose to bring their families to live in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc., and work as instructors themselves. The work of one person is enough to allow their family to live a good life.

When Li Fuguo saw Liu Tao, he started complaining. After all, it was not easy to train these soldiers. It meant that many things had to start from scratch.

"Everyone has their own aspirations. As the saying goes, if it rains, it will rain; if a mother wants to get married, she will marry. So let them be!" Liu Tao comforted Li Fuguo.

In his opinion, everyone's choice deserves respect.

There is nothing wrong with these veterans choosing to live a comfortable life.

Li Fuguo and his men just need to work harder and recruit another batch of soldiers for training.

And we should take this opportunity to replenish fresh blood.

The military camp is permanent, but the soldiers are transient!

As long as the entire army is not disbanded, new soldiers can be recruited and trained, and recovery can be achieved within two or three years.

Of course, in order to appease Li Fuguo and others, Liu Tao promised to equip them with more "Ray Eagle" helicopters and even promised to equip them with a batch of fighter jets.

Li Fuguo did not stay at the Panshan Group headquarters for long. He soon led his people to the capital.

As someone on the front line, Li Fuguo's military observations are the clearest, he possesses the most complete military intelligence, and he has the deepest feelings. Moreover, Li Fuguo is also a professional military commander, so it is most valuable to summarize this situation.

Li Fuguo will probably stay in Beijing for at least a month this time.

Liu Tao also left Panshan Group headquarters and went to Yangcheng Shipyard.

Because the construction of the 094 nuclear submarine is also about to start.

As a new generation of strategic nuclear submarines, the definition of the 094 nuclear submarine is a strategic deterrent force.

With the 094 nuclear submarine, we can travel to various oceans and even launch intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Arctic or Antarctic.

The triad nuclear strike force is what any nuclear-weapon-armed country pursues.

As long as the opponent is unable to destroy all the target's nuclear forces at once, he or she will never dare to start a war, because the power of nuclear weapons was fully demonstrated as early as the last period of World War II. If anyone does not believe in the power of nuclear weapons, just ask the Japanese.

No one in the world knows better than the Japanese how powerful nuclear weapons are.

And that was just a small-yield one. Nowadays, there are nuclear warheads with a TNT equivalent of hundreds of thousands or even millions of TNT.

Even the Tsar Bomb, which was created by the Soviet Union in a heinous manner, had a power equivalent to 5000 million tons of TNT.

Nuclear-weapon states are all pursuing a triad of nuclear strike forces to ensure that they can launch nuclear retaliation against the enemy when their nuclear forces are hit by the first wave of attacks.

Almost half a century has passed since the end of World War II, but no new world-class war has broken out. It can be said that it is largely due to the nuclear balance that has prevented all parties from starting a world-class war.

(End of this chapter)