Chapter 099, Currency Wars
After Afghanistan was opened, although the railway had not yet been built, the transportation of the road had been unimpeded, which was the first time that the border between China and Afghanistan was opened more than ten years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, and a steady stream of supplies was transported from China's Xinjiang to Afghanistan and reached Basra.
After the supplies arrived, Simon immediately drew up the next strategy, attacking as defense and defense as attacking.
This strategy is based on the fact that Rutbay is still in a stalemate state, so it is called defending as an offensive, mainly for the purpose of luring the enemy, and the coalition forces must first defeat Lutbay's Northwest Army, but Simon is not ready to invest troops in the battlefield of Rutbai, he decided to open up the second line of the battlefield, which is Saudi Arabia.
In the face of tensions between the coalition forces, the Southwestern Army launched its first counteroffensive outside the country, targeting the Second Army of the Royal Saudi Army.
At the same time, the Central Garrison Division left for Kuwait and threatened the Saudi capital, forcing the Saudis to fix the strongest Royal Army First Army around the capital in order to imitate a possible offensive by the Prophet's Army.
And the 50,000 people of the Northeast Army, the most powerful of the Army, launched a further attack on Turkey, and the First Army of the Northeast Army, which occupied an absolute geographical location, even if it was not superior in numbers, the nuclear power plant they occupied made the Turkish army miserable.
And Iran has also begun to move, Iran's Northern Army Group began to march to the border between Iran and Turkey in large numbers, with the intention of threatening Turkey, the entire battlefield situation is changing rapidly, just because of the achievement of a strategic goal, the US military is in an embarrassing dilemma.
Disagreements began to emerge within the Allies, who were reluctant to send more troops into a war of attrition, despite their reluctance to send more troops into the war.
What makes the NATO coalition speechless the most is that the Islamic Alliance, led by New Iraq, has begun to preach revolution, and the object of the revolution is all the kingly countries in the Middle East, led by Saudi Arabia, and the internal and external situation is urgent, and there are terrorist organizations in Saudi Arabia, and for a time the entire kingly countries in the Middle East have begun to rise from danger.
As Prime Minister, Vivien began to implement her economic reform measures after the alliance was established, and the focus of this economic reform measure was currency reform.
Of course, Vivien is not stupid enough to establish a new currency within the alliance to replace the dollar's status as the world currency, but Vivien knows very well that if a new monetary system is not established to curb the dollar's world position, then even if they drag down the United States now, the United States will still be able to rely on the advantage of the dollar as the world currency in the future and rise again.
For example, when the new Iraq buys weapons from Russia, the new Iraq does not pay Russia dollars, but pays Russia the new Iraqi currency, and in the same way, Russia will buy oil and gas from the new Iraq, and it will also pay the new Iraqi ruble.
Although this kind of transaction is largely difficult, there is a basis for material exchange between the two sides, so to a large extent, Russia and Iraq can support this monetary system.
Moreover, if it had been a trade with Russia in the past, there would have been a lot of confusion in this system, since neither country is a huge economy.
But after Afghanistan is opened, China's entry into trade with the Middle East is different, China is a well-deserved world factory, can become the link of this monetary system, once China joins in, it will be completely different, because in China you can buy everything, in Russia except for the military industry, other civilian goods production capacity is limited, China's reform and opening up, coupled with the status of the World Trade Organization, is not subject to any major restrictions at all.
Moreover, with China's manpower, it is completely possible to support this monetary system, and even in the future, when the cooperation becomes more and more intensive, and the trading system becomes more and more mature, it can consider establishing a new currency to replace the currency transactions of various countries, so as to completely exclude the world monetary system of the US dollar, so that the United States will not be able to restrict the development of Middle Eastern countries through economic sanctions, and after the development of Middle Eastern countries, they will inevitably rely more on this system and China.
Therefore, when Vivian proposed this system, American economists immediately whined and lamented, even if China opened up the channel with the Middle East, it is still engaging in this system with Middle Eastern countries, not to isolate the United States.
You must know that the Middle East is not Europe, and the euro system established by the European Union was once tricked by the United States, and it almost collapsed in the end, and the system fell directly into trouble.
But the Middle East is different, if such an independent trading system is established with the countries of the Middle East, with the status of the natural energy heart of the Middle East, it is useless for the United States to make trouble, after all, China is the world's factory, you have what the United States has, China also has, you can make it in the United States, China can also build it.
Although China may be inferior in quality, it is better in terms of low price, which can not only prevent inflation, but also accelerate the economies of both sides, and China will not impose economic sanctions at every turn, let alone attach some conditions to the deal, and interfere in the internal affairs of various countries, so China is the best link and partner.
Once China solves the energy crisis, its economic development will reach a historical high, and even completely surpass the United States.
As soon as Vivian proposed this proposal, the Iranian president invited the heads of state to participate in the meeting on the international trade and monetary system in Tehran.
The countries invited by the Iranian president include Russia, China, Kuwait, Syria, New Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey and even the United Arab Emirates, as well as some major European powers.
Although the major European powers also want to participate, but because they are in the war with the new Iraq, they also understand that the Iranian president has bad intentions and wants to further divide the relationship between Europe and the United States, but they really want to participate, Europe has been trying to get rid of the economic constraints imposed on them by the United States all these years, after all, the dollar dominates the world, and once the United States has an economic crisis, they will all be affected, which is equivalent to using their own funds to repay the debts of the Americans.
Now that the Middle East has come up with such a system, of course they want to participate in it, so that they can get rid of the United States, and once it becomes the world currency in the future, the probability of triggering an economic crisis will become the lowest.
They wanted to attend but did not, but two countries unexpectedly participated in the summit: the Prime Minister of Turkey and King Hamulet of the Emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Although the United States condemns these two countries for being the grass on the wall at the critical moment, the United States has no way to deal with them.
The United States is not stupid enough to do something stupid like Saudi Arabia, and if it pushes them, won't they have a reason to join the Islamic Revolutionary League?
It's a pity that even if he doesn't force Turkey and the UAE, these two countries announced their decision after the summit, and after Hamulet went back, he reported the matter to the president, and the UAE president said that he was very interested in this system and would pay close attention in the future, which means that you do it, we support it.
And the Turkish Prime Minister will be more direct after he goes back, there is no way, the black impermanence is really too scoundrel, this guy is standing at the nuclear power plant, and he refuses to leave, although Turkey can threaten the northeast of Iraq, but the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Army Group North threaten their east, how can they fight.
The best way to transfer the Northeast Army back is to blow up the nuclear power plant and pollute the entire northeast of Turkey, so that a natural barrier can be formed, so that Turkey will not dare to enter the northeast of the new Iraq.
Therefore, as soon as the Turkish prime minister returned, he discussed with the president and decided to withdraw from NATO and maintain neutrality in this war.
US President Theodore said in a speech at the White House that NATO did not withdraw if it wanted to, and that if Turkey insisted on going its own way, it would be severely sanctioned by the United States.
It's a pity that Turkey is not afraid of the United States at all, after all, Turkey is also a military power in the Middle East and occupies the innate geographical conditions, so it has no choice to respond at all, but it is obvious that NATO is retreating, after all, you Americans don't raise his own mother, why should Turkey stay in this chicken NATO.
Just an hour after US President Theodore made a speech, the Russian president happily held a press conference at which he told reporters around the world that Turkey was welcome to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.
The meaning of this sentence is obviously a satire on the United States, and the reason why the Russian president is so happy is, of course, because the United States is deflated, and once Turkey declares neutrality, the Black Sea Fleet and merchant ships can pass through the Turkish Straits and enter the Mediterranean Sea unimpeded.
A large amount of war supplies will be transported from Syria to New Iraq, which will be a further blow to the United States, the two strategic routes have been opened, the United States is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and the allies are divided, and they are still fart.
However, US President Theodore still gave the order to attack quickly, and in fact George had wanted to attack for a long time, only because the generals of the coalition forces were clamoring for a retreat.
Originally, with an increase of 100,000 troops and three ace troops, it was still possible for them to win, but now that there is such a trouble, even the morale of the ace troops has fallen to the bottom.
So at the military meeting, George said this: " If the United States loses this war, it will mean that Europe loses this war, and the world's center of gravity will shift to China and Russia in Asia, once these two countries are developed, Europe will face the threat of Russia, especially Israel, will face an existential crisis, you know very well, although China is not a country that likes to invade, but Russia is different, when the time comes, the United States will have two natural gateways of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and the big deal will not be a superpower, but it can still maintain self-defense, but what about you!"
McCain's face changed, and the faces of the generals of other countries were not good, George was right, there is no room for maneuver in this way, the United States can put down the face of the superpower and close itself, after all, he has the two major gateways of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, it is difficult for Russia and China to extend their tentacles to the United States, but Europe is different, especially Israel, which is already in the cracks, once there is no support from the United States, it is possible to lose the country,