Chapter 557 War of Words

The military expenditure problem was solved in this way. Moreover, President Reagan also knew that the United States had no choice in the face of Iraq's invasion! The United States could not sit idly by and watch Iraq control the entire Middle East. At that time, it would definitely be a nightmare for the United States!

"Since His Majesty the King agrees, we can proceed as soon as possible. Now, the European troops are also gathering, and we will quickly transport them to Saudi Arabia by ship." Joseph said, "Now, we just hope that Iraq's actions can be slowed down. After our troops land in Saudi Arabia, we will have sufficient guarantees. In order to achieve this goal, we also hope that you will cooperate and negotiate with Iraq."

Even if the troops in Pakistan are mobilized, it will take a day or two. If Iraq attacks Saudi Arabia now, the United States will be helpless. Therefore, we must buy time now!

Saudi Arabia is sending people to negotiate with Iraq. You invaded Kuwait. What's going on? This will be strongly opposed by us. Please withdraw from Kuwait's territory immediately. Everything can be discussed at the negotiation table!

Use this method to paralyze the Iraqis, and in secret, the US military will quickly land in Saudi Arabia and build the first line of defense!

In addition to negotiations within the Middle East, emergency meetings are also being held at the United Nations.

"Iraq's brazen invasion of Kuwait is a flagrant violation of international order and international norms! We will never stand by and watch Iraq's brutal invasion of Kuwait, and Iraq's ambitions are definitely not limited to this!" At the UN meeting, the US representative spoke first: "We propose that the Security Council pass a resolution to impose economic sanctions on Iraq, and at the same time, authorize us to launch a military strike against Iraq!"

During the Cold War, the United Nations was just a fig leaf where everyone could speak passionately, promote their own arguments, and talk a lot, but no real agreement could be reached.

For example, now, after the United States spoke, Britain followed suit and condemned Iraq. Even France, which has always liked independence, expressed strong dissatisfaction with Iraq and supported the United Nations' resolution to strike Iraq.

It's very simple. All European countries can see that after annexing Kuwait, Iraq, together with Iran's Khuzestan region, already has 25% of the world's oil production. If it annexed Saudi Arabia, it would have 45% of the world's oil production! If the Soviet Union is added, then the global oil price can be completely controlled! At that time, the whole of Europe will want to give up oil and use other energy sources! This will severely hit the European economy. Europe is already shaky under high oil prices. We must not let the conspiracy of Iraq and the Soviet Union succeed!

Unfortunately, such a resolution would not be passed in the United Nations, because the Soviet Union, as one of the five major gangsters, naturally voted against it in its subsequent statement.

"In the agreement signed between Britain and the Ottoman Empire in 1913, it was stipulated that Kuwait was an independent county within the Ottoman Empire. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq was its successor state. Therefore, Kuwait was originally a territory of Iraq and could enjoy a high degree of self-control, but it had to obey the Iraqi government. It was only the interference of the hateful colonialists at that time that complicated the problem here. The colonists at that time handed Kuwait over to a royal regime, not the people. Moreover, it was six years later that Iraq became independent. Due to the interference of the colonialists at that time, Iraq did not unify by force, and it became a historical legacy. Now, Iraq is just solving historical legacy issues." The Soviet diplomat kept calling them colonialists, of course, saying that these were all the tails left by the British back then, and it was ironic. Hearing this, the British representative immediately stood up: "Kuwait was founded in 54 years, and Iraq was founded in 60 years. These are originally two countries! Moreover, Kuwait has been independent for so many years and has long been recognized by the world. Iraq is a barbaric act of aggression!"

"The Babylonian Empire was established for more than two thousand years. Is it considered a sufficient reason to establish the country long ago?" The Soviet diplomat continued to make nonsense, making the British man so angry that he wanted to stand up and spit. This situation happened more than once in the conference room.

The representative of China remained silent. In this kind of meeting, China always abstained from voting.

The United Nations was in a state of uproar, and no effective agreement could be reached. Amid the uproar, Iraq's actions continued. On the second day after occupying Kuwait, Iraq officially announced that it would divide Kuwait into two parts, assigning a narrow strip of land in the north to the Basra Province in southern Iraq, and the rest of the area to Iraq's 19th administrative province. Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan Majid was appointed as the first governor of Kuwait Province.

The Kuwaiti dinar was abolished, and all settlements in Kuwait were settled in Iraqi dinars. At the same time, Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait, was renamed Kadima City and became the capital of the new administrative province. This was originally developed from Kadima Port, a trading port during the Ottoman Empire, and now its original name has been restored.

At the same time, the residents of Kuwait were also relocated in large numbers. Originally, there were not many native Kuwaitis in Kuwait, accounting for only 36% of the total population. The rest were Palestinians, Egyptians, Indians, Pakistanis, etc. Iraq's approach to its own Kuwaitis was to relocate them to Khuzestan Province! At the same time, the population gap created was filled with people from the Basra region in southern Iraq.

Saddam was very busy in Iraq, but here, Andre finally couldn't stand it anymore.

"This guy didn't take advantage of such a good opportunity and just messed around in Kuwait. What a short-sighted guy!" Andrei put down the intelligence in his hand and said to the guard captain Valisi: "Prepare a plane for me immediately."

"Where are you going?" asked the captain of the guard.

"Where else can we go? Of course it's Baghdad!" Andre said, "This idiot has wasted his time! Once the Americans really land in Saudi Arabia, this war will be difficult to fight!"

Andre could no longer tolerate it and decided to go to Baghdad in person to urge Iraq to march into Saudi Arabia as soon as possible.

"But is it safe to go this way?" asked Valisi.

"If there is anything unsafe, notify Baghdad immediately. Also, bring four Su-27 escorts." Andre made the itinerary very quickly.