Seryosha did not continue to stay in Iraq, he did everything he should have done, he said what he should have said, and as long as Saddam Hussein is still sensible, I believe that he will handle the Kuwaiti issue in the way suggested by Seryosha.
There are only a handful of countries in the world that dare to fall out with the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time, and Iraq is obviously not one of them.
Seryosha had so much to deal with and time was so tight that the day after he and Saddam Hussein inspected farms outside Baghdad, Seryosha took a special plane to Saudi Arabia, Iraq's neighbor.
At this moment, Seryosha's arrival will be decisive for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, because in a few days at the United Nations General Assembly, there will be a vote on the Kuwaiti crisis, and whether the Kuwaiti government-in-exile can be restored depends to a large extent on this vote.
However, the Soviet Union is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and has the right of veto, and no matter how many countries Kuwait and Saudi Arabia win over to support the Kuwaiti government-in-exile, as long as the Soviet Union does not nod its head, everything will be in vain.
Among the five permanent members of the United Nations, the United States, Britain, and France all support the Kuwaiti government, and China will abstain most of the time, so it is crucial to have the support of the Soviet Union.
Although Seryosha first visited Iraq, he is still a fateful guest to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Seryosha has received more courtesy in Saudi Arabia than in Iraq.
Seryosha still did not say anything in Saudi Arabia.
He also ignored and vaguely answered reporters' questions.
Privately, however, Seryosha has conveyed his terms to the governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Seryosha's conditions were harsh, and he demanded that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait support the OEC cut production by 20 percent.
At the same time, a $100 billion interest-free loan was to be provided to the Soviet Union. $100 billion is almost one-sixth of Saudi Arabia's foreign exchange reserves, and the Soviet Union wants to borrow so much money without paying interest, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait really grit their teeth with hatred, and what is even worse is that the Soviet Union asked Saudi Arabia to exert its influence and prompt the OEC to cut production by 20 percent.
I am afraid that most of this reduction will need to be borne by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait "This is a naked threat," the Saudi representative privately complained angrily to the Emir of Kuwait.
"If I had known that this was the result, I would rather forgive Saddam's debts," said the Kuwaiti emir helplessly, although his younger brother died at the gunpoint of Iraq, but these days, the Kuwaiti royal family has run into walls everywhere in front of the United States and the Soviet government, and the Americans have sent the Kuwaiti government-in-exile with mercenary troops, in addition to paying the international risk consulting company, but also paying the United States a large amount of money for the purchase of weapons.
Taken together, the two sums of money almost exceed Iraq's external debt.
The Kuwaiti government can only consume the foreign exchange it has accumulated over the years, and although the foreign exchange reserves are still abundant, once they are exhausted, even the mercenary force of the international risk consulting firm will leave them.
The Saudi representatives are still pinning their hopes on the Americans, but the United States has not yet given any definite information.
However, intelligence from the Saudi ambassador to the United States shows that anti-war demonstrations in the United States are intensifying.
At the White House and on Capitol Hill, there were crowds of protesters everywhere.
Although Saddam's war lacked justice, the Americans, who had already been frightened by the Vietnam War, wanted to go through it again.
Recruitment advertisements for international risk consulting companies can now be seen in the media in the United States from time to time, and at the same time, as the world's largest private armed forces, the American media has also taken a keen interest in international risk consulting companies.
The N TV Network, which is famous for its 24-hour rolling coverage of international news, sent a team of reporters to follow the international risk consulting company deep into Kuwait to report on the war at close range.
All parties involved in the settlement of the Kuwaiti problem have their own difficulties.
At this special moment, the poison that Seryosha took out made Kuwait, which was eager to recover, have to swallow in its stomach.
The Kuwaiti government, now afraid to put its fate on the United States, has privately approached Seryosha and said that if the Soviet Union can get Iraq to withdraw its troops, Kuwait will agree to forgive Iraq's debts and provide the Soviet Union with an interest-free loan of $20 billion.
Seryosha readily acceded to Kuwait's request, and the two sides signed a non-legally binding memorandum.
The Saudis, on the other hand, still have illusions about the United States.
Saudi Arabia has US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia, and although the torrent of steel from Iraq on the border has put tremendous pressure on Saudi Arabia, as long as US troops remain in Saudi Arabia, they will have a certain deterrent effect on Saddam Hussein.
"You can not agree to our conditions, but in that case we will have to reconsider the Kuwait issue, after all, Iraq is our ally, and if Iraq can really eliminate its bad neighbors and become the leader of the Arab world, it will be very beneficial to our Soviet Union" Seryosha didn't even bother to hide it, and directly said the threat.
Seryosha means very clearly, if Saudi Arabia is unwilling to limit oil production, then the Soviet Union will fully support Saddam Hussein to obtain the status of the Middle East hegemon, Iraq will definitely like to limit production at that time, because their production capacity is limited, many oil fields have been bombed into ruins by the Iranian dreadnabs, and once the price of oil rises, Iraq can greatly ease the pressure on debt.
Just as Seryosha was saying this, four Tu-160 Tractor bombers landed in Syria, another Soviet ally in the Middle East.
At the same time, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet left its home port and headed for the Tartus naval base on the territory of Syria.
When the Saudi side heard this news, they were terrified, and they did not want the flames of war to really reach Saudi Arabia.
So Seryosha's proposal is back on the table of the Saudi cabinet meeting.
After receiving the news that the Saudi side was willing to negotiate, Seryosha made a report to the country's Politburo by telephone.
Now the Soviet solution is known among the three Gulf countries.
They also expressed their willingness to adopt peaceful means to resolve the Kuwaiti issue.
Seryosha was pleased with the Saudi decision, but there was a hurdle ahead, and that was how the Soviet Union skillfully dealt with the Kuwait issue at the United Nations. 2 t1706231537: