The news of the establishment of the Central Bank of Eastern Europe had only been going viral for a week, and it was immediately stolen from the limelight by another shocking piece of news.
Thousands of miles away in the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, a small Middle Eastern country that holds Iraq's access to the sea, was killed by the collapse of negotiations with its neighbor Iraq over oil.
Because of the huge debts owed by the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq has almost become the poorest country in the Middle East, and the weapons debt owed to the United States and the Soviet Union alone is as high as $40 billion, and now the Soviet government is also facing serious economic problems, and controlling the Middle East is no longer a strategic choice of the Soviet government, so forcing debts to Iraq has become a helpless choice for the Soviet government.
Faced with a huge debt of up to 70 billion yuan, the Iraqi government, which has spent all its foreign exchange reserves, has only two options: either sell the oil fields on which Iraq depends to foreign capitalists in exchange for the support of foreign capital, or choose to default on its debts.
Saddam Hussein naturally refused to hand over his domestic oil resources to those insatiable foreign capitalists, so he chose to repay his debts, but he did not dare to repay his debts to superpowers such as the United States and the Soviet Union.
Kuwait is one of the few rich countries in the world, although the land area is not large, but the oil reserves are amazing, the extraction cost is low, the quality of oil is still high, the most important thing is that Kuwait's foreign exchange reserves are as high as 100 billion US dollars, in addition to tens of billions of dollars of stocks of Western heavy industry, not to mention the huge foreign exchange reserves, it is simply more than enough to repay the arms debts of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Iraq, with its ill intentions, simply did not stop doing two things, launched an attack without warning, and occupied the entire territory of Kuwait in just one day.
Prince Fahd, the brother of the Emir of Kuwait, was seriously wounded and killed in the battle, and five other members of the royal family were killed in battle, while the Emir himself led some members of the royal family to flee to Saudi Arabia.
Weakened Kuwait was almost defenceless in the face of Iraqi forces.
Relying on one's own strength to try to restore the country is simply wishful thinking.
Not to mention the small Kuwait, even Saudi Arabia, the hegemon of the Middle East, is not an opponent in front of the Iraqi army.
A negotiation over foreign debt has led to a war, and I am afraid that the Kuwaiti government is now repentant.
Now both the Kuwaiti government and the Saudi government are afraid that the Iraqi army will continue to move south and invade Saudi territory, and for these rich Arab countries, the only hope at present is the United States, and only if the United States sends troops will Kuwait have the possibility of recovering the country.
How can it be so easy to get the United States to send troops, how many Americans died in the Vietnam War back then, and besides, the people of the United States have not forgotten the grand occasion of the nation's anti-war in the past few years after the Vietnam War.
Kuwait's ambassador to the United States was soon received by President Bush, and the two communicated about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and the United States pledged to help Kuwait recover, although congressional approval was still required for the dispatch of troops.
The Kuwaiti ambassador, who is himself a member of the royal family, could not help but feel a sense of desolation when he heard such a perfunctory reply from the United States.
Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Seryosha, but Seryosha was very willing to intervene in it.
Seryosha knew that the United States would eventually choose to send troops, and that this war would not sink the American military into mud like the Vietnam War.
Judging from the experience of the previous life, the first Gulf War was not difficult at all.
However, the Americans have not yet realized how powerful they are, and they do not know that they can completely rely on the air force to dominate the war.
Because before the first Gulf War, military scientists in the vast majority of countries in the world did not realize that war could rely entirely on air power to determine victory.
The United States is reluctant to send troops, and its biggest concern is the fear that a ground war will cause massive American casualties.
If the international venture company replaces the U.S. military to help Kuwait win the war for restoration, then the international risk consulting company will definitely leap to become the world's largest security company.
In addition, the international risk consulting firm can not only get the support of the United States, obtain large defense contracts from the US government and the Kuwaiti government, but also obtain advanced weapons from the United States, and most importantly, Kuwait is located in the core of the Persian Gulf, the location is too important, once the international risk consulting firm can recover Kuwait in the ground war, then it is no longer a luxury to station a force in Kuwait that is under the orders of Seryosha.
The Persian Gulf is an important route for oil transportation, and strengthening the military presence of the Gorky group here is definitely a crucial move, and more importantly, the United States will certainly consider the international risk consulting firm to protect American interests.
After figuring out these key questions, Seryosha became interested in the Kuwaiti royal family.
How can this news be conveyed to the president of the United States Seryosha thought of Eva, although Eva is a businessman, but as the richest man in the world and a contractor of the Pentagon's global satellite communications services, it will not be too much of a problem to introduce the international risk consulting company to the military.
Moreover, the owners of the international risk consulting firm, Yuri and Ivankov, are both diplomats in the Vatican and senior advisers to the new Polish government, and their backgrounds are impeccable, and the Americans will never know that the black hand behind them is actually a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Seryosha quickly sent his plan to Yuri, who was in Poland, and informed Eva to arrange the matter.
Almost as soon as Yuri put down the phone, he flew directly to Washington on a Columbia bank business jet.
And Ivankov, at the headquarters of Juarez International Risk Consulting, also asked his subordinates to draw up a bidding plan overnight.
Yuri moved quickly, and it took him 10 hours to fly back to Washington from Warsaw, and as soon as he got off the plane, he met Ivankov, who had been waiting here for a long time.
Eva's position in the business world gave her unparalleled influence, even in Washington's political circles, and Ivankov and Yuri were quick to get a Pentagon reply that they were very interested in the proposal of an international risk consulting firm to contract Kuwait's ground war, which Kuwait had reservations.
However, the Kuwaiti ambassador has received a reply from the emir and is willing to approach an international risk consulting firm about cooperation.
Early the next morning, Yuri and Ivankov went to the Pentagon in Arlington County at Eva's recommendation and met with the person in charge.
Eva told Seryosha about the progress of the matter, Seryosha was not worried about whether the international risk consulting company could get the contract, because the plan he proposed was definitely the most suitable at present, the United States only needed air strikes, and the ground combat was left to the international risk consulting company to do, unless there was a crash, the United States could not have casualties, as for the war expenses, the rich Kuwait paid this money, and when the time came, the international risk consulting company could definitely change guns, and Seryosha would not save Kuwait money.
However, it is better to ward Glencore's Macridge in this matter, and perhaps Iraq will become Glencore's second major customer after Iran. 181 t1706231537: