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As soon as the oil futures market opened early on the morning of August 10, the price of oil broke through $42 per barrel and fluctuated at this point until noon.

Fang Mingyuan and their lunch were solved by themselves in the VIP building, Fang Bin didn't come over when he had something, but Yu Qiuxuan came over with Qing'er in his arms to join in the fun. Fang Mingyuan, who was full of wine and food, Kao was reading a book on the windowsill on the shady side.

"These Iraqis are so brutal that they don't even spare children! It's a bunch of beasts! On the sofa in the living room, Yu Qiuxuan hugged Qing'er and Lin Lian and said angrily. The two had just finished watching several news stories about Kuwait broadcast on Hong Kong television, one of which mentioned that during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, some Iraqi soldiers rushed into Kuwaiti hospitals, threw Kuwaiti babies out of their incubators, and left them to die on the hospital floor. The news was reported on a number of American television stations.

Fang Mingyuan didn't know whether this matter was true or not, because there was no picture from the reporter in the news. And he knew that shortly after the occupation of Kuwait in his previous life, an organization called "Citizens for Free Kuwait" was established in the United States, which started a propaganda war with tens of millions of dollars from the Kuwaiti government. Later, at a hearing held by the United States Congress on Iraq's atrocities in Kuwait. The underage girl who stated the plot later turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, a member of the royal family. The propaganda between countries, hehe, is also true and false, and it must not be believed or fully believed. But of course he won't say this, it's enough to know it in his heart.

"Mingyuan!" Yu Qiuxuan shouted, "Come on." ”

Fang Mingyuan put down the books in his hand and walked from the back room to the living room. "Sister Qiuxuan, what's the matter?"

"Mingyuan, you say, will Iraq take the initiative to withdraw from Kuwait? Now almost all the countries in Shijie have unanimously condemned them, and the United States has clearly announced that it will send troops to help Kuwait recover its territory, and the first American soldiers have set foot on Saudi Arabia's soil. Will Saddam Hussein continue to be so tough? Yu Qiuxuan's series of questions swept over like a machine gun.

The question was easy to answer, but the reason made Fang Mingyuan ponder for a while. "Sister Qiuxuan, in my opinion, Iraq will not take the initiative to withdraw from Kuwait......"

The main purpose of Iraq's brazen invasion and occupation of Kuwait at a time when the flames of the Iran-Iraq war had just been extinguished and before it had signed a peace treaty with Iran was to write off Iraq's huge debts of more than $10 billion to Kuwait by occupying Kuwait, a rich country that is rarely seen in the country, and to use Kuwait's treasury to resolve the serious crisis brought about by the eight-year Iran-Iraq war to Iraq's national economy.

Moreover, by annexing Kuwait, the long-standing border dispute between the two countries and the resulting dispute over oil development in the border area can be resolved once and for all. Moreover, in the eyes of many Iraqis, Kuwait was originally part of Iraq – an autonomous province of Iraq that was then part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire before the First World War. During the First Shijie War, the British occupied Kuwait and promoted its independence, but Iraq never recognized Kuwait's independence.

At the same time, Iraq's capture of Kuwait would extend its coastline from the current 450 kilometres to more than 200 kilometres, thus greatly improving the Iraqi Navy's sphere of activity and sea lanes for foreign trade.

Zuihou and the occupation of Kuwait can also have the effect of "killing chickens and showing monkeys", play a role in deterring the Gulf countries and other Middle Eastern countries, and pave the way for Iraq to compete for the leadership position of the Arab Shijie and dominate the Middle East region in the future.

"Iraq still wants to compete for the leadership of the Arab Shijie and dominate the Middle East?" Yu Qiuxuan said with some surprise. A country that has just gone through an eight-year war, has a land area of only more than 400,000 square kilometers, and has a large desert area, has no small ambitions.

"What's so strange about this, even if a small unit is, in order to be a leader, people will break their heads. For another example, didn't Vietnam, next to Hong Kong, also boast that it was the third military power in Shijie, and that the southern part of China was all Vietnamese territory? "In the 90s, the nearly 10-year war between China and Vietnam had just come to an end, and Hong Kong people across the sea from Vietnam were naturally no strangers to this.

"Then you say, will the Americans really go to war for Kuwait and Iraq? When did Americans become so kind-hearted? Lin Lian brought two cups of tea to the two of them and said softly.

"It's not good to talk about good intentions, but the Americans will definitely go to war for Kuwait." Fang Mingyuan smiled dumbly and said, a woman is a woman, and the relationship between countries can not be measured by good intentions and bad hearts.

In previous lives, there were many reasons why the United States insisted on driving Iraq out of Kuwait. Fang Mingyuan himself agrees that oil is the "blood" of today's Shijie economic development, and it is also the driving force of the modern army. The Middle East, as an oil depot and an important energy supplier to the United States, naturally cannot allow a monopoly to emerge. In the long run, Iraq's desire to deter Arab countries by occupying Kuwait and pave the way for the future struggle for the leadership of Arab countries and domination of the Middle East is naturally intolerable to the United States.

In view of the current situation, the decision of the Western countries, led by the United States, to expel Iraq from Kuwait is also related to their fear that Iraq will invade Saudi Arabia. For these Western countries, Saudi Arabia is even more important than Kuwait. After the Iraqi army occupied Kuwait, it was easy for it to attack Saudi Arabia's largest and most important oil fields. If Iraq were able to control these Saudi Arabian oil fields, and the production of the oil fields in Iraq and Kuwait would have reached an unprecedented monopoly on the supply of Shijie oil.

Iraq and Saudi Arabia also have a series of disputes. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq owed nearly $30 billion to Saudi Arabia, which is still higher than Kuwait, and it can be said that Iraq is a big creditor. And over the years, the long desert border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq has been disputed. Especially after members of the Kuwaiti royal family fled to Saudi Arabia, Saddam Hussein unwisely began to attack the Saudi Arabian royal family. He said that the Saudi royal family, supported by the United States, was illegitimate as the guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. And to attack the Saudi royal family using the language that extremist Islamists and Iran have been using to attack Saudi Arabia. And Saudi Arabia's military strength is far inferior to Iraq's, which is the main reason why the royal family of Saudi Arabia will agree to the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia so quickly.

It was Saddam's move that made the United States and other Western countries generally believe that Saddam's ambitions would not stop in Kuwait and that it was very likely that they would further invade Saudi Arabia. If Iraq annexes Kuwait and then occupies Saudi Arabia, it will be able to control more than half of the oil resources in the entire Shijie oil export market, which is like choking the throat of the Western countries led by the United States. By using the oil weapon in his hands, Saddam Hussein could manipulate the economic development of the Western industrial countries and dictate their policies. This is absolutely intolerable for the whole of Shijie, especially the United States, the European Union, and Japan, which are heavily dependent on Middle Eastern oil for their energy supplies. Therefore, this war will undoubtedly be fought unless Saddam Hussein wisely withdraws from Kuwait.

"Sometimes, I really can't imagine that you are still a junior high school student." Yu Qiuxuan let out a sigh of relief, she really couldn't understand that Wei Shenme Fang Mingyuan was so young at a young age, and she could see things so transparently. On this issue, although she also felt that if Saddam Hussein did not back down in this battle, it would undoubtedly be fought, but it was not as clear as Fang Mingyuan thought so thoroughly.

Fang Mingyuan smiled but did not say that the Gulf War had an extremely long-term impact on Shijie after the 90 years, and after nearly 20 years of analysis and research after the war, it was natural that these authorities could see it more thoroughly than these authorities.

Fang Mingyuan's heart moved, this is a good opportunity to get close to the Kuwaiti royal family, this icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow after all. The Kuwaiti royal family, who fled in a hurry, has no country, has lost its personal domestic wealth, except for Kuwait's overseas assets, it can be said that there is no money, if at this time, donate a sum of money to the Kuwaiti royal family, will it gain their favor? If you can get in touch with the real power figures of the Kuwaiti royal family because of this, it will definitely be beneficial to the Guo family and the Fang family after Shijie enters the era of high oil prices in the future. Moreover, it is not difficult for the two companies that have just received huge profits to donate one or two hundred million dollars to Kuwait.

"Sister Qiuxuan, I personally believe that the United States will undoubtedly win this war. In the future, Kuwait will inevitably be restored. If Mr. Guo intends to intervene in the transportation of crude oil in the future, he might as well show goodwill to the Kuwaiti royal family at this time. Fang Mingyuan forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart. Today, although everyone knows the importance of oil as the "blood" of modern industry, I am afraid that no one would have imagined that in ten years, the price of oil will continue to soar to the level of $150 per barrel. And in the future, Huaxia's demand for oil is getting bigger and bigger, and if he can pave this road, it will be very important for the future Fang family and the country.

The more Fang Mingyuan thought about it, the more excited he became, and he jumped up from the sofa and said, "Qiu Xuan, where is Grandpa Guo now?" He couldn't wait to discuss it with Old Man Guo, and he had to give it a try no matter what.