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When he saw Bush Sr. again after more than a year, Xu Cun immediately had an illusion -- Bush Sr. seemed to have made up his mind to start a war!

After shaking hands with Xu Cun and sitting down, Bush Sr. said directly and quietly: "Your DreamWorks television network is really powerful, and it can actually cover this confrontation for viewers in more than 150 countries and regions around the world, so that the people of the whole world can become witnesses to this incident." ”

Xu Cun smiled and said: "It's all Barry and his men, I don't care much about these things, you know, I'm just a businessman, huh...... If you have any instructions, I can talk to Barry about them. ”

Even if there is no report from the intelligence department, based on Xu Cun's remarks alone, Bush Sr. is enough to believe that the DreamWorks Television Network's coverage of the Gulf incident is by no means Xu Cun's handiwork -- the DreamWorks Television Network's coverage of the Gulf incident is absolutely objective and fair, and how much of Xu Cun's willingness to influence the objectivity and fairness of the Gulf incident with such a single mouth is not at all the character of an iron-clad media person.

Actually,

Xu Cun just said this as an attitude, and he knew very well that the three major US television networks were all reporting on the Gulf incident objectively and fairly, and it was impossible for Bush Sr. to limit his own DreamWorks television network alone.

Of course, Bush Sr.'s judgment of Xu Cun is also correct, Xu Cun does not have the character that a media person should have, as long as the interests are sufficient, Xu Cun will definitely not mind distorting the facts!

The elder Bush changed the subject noncommittally: "What do you think of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the confrontation with Arab countries?"

The prescient Xu Cun knew what the elder Bush wanted to hear, so Xu Cun said in a clear manner: "I believe that if Iraq does not withdraw from Kuwait and stop this act of aggression, it must be dealt a military strike." ”

Hearing Xu Cun's unequivocal support for himself, the elder Bush immediately laughed and said: "Oh? I don't think you would want Iraq to occupy Kuwait, after all, as long as Iraq occupies Kuwait, oil prices will rise, and you will make more money." -- The Gulf region is extremely rich in oil and natural gas resources. As of January 1990, the Gulf region had about 651.7 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, accounting for 65 percent of the world's proven oil reserves (about 10.5 trillion barrels), and about 24 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, accounting for 13.7 percent of the world's total natural gas resources. It produces about 14.5 million barrels of oil per day, accounting for about 23 percent of the world's daily oil production (63.6 million barrels), and exports about 12 million barrels of oil per day, accounting for about 43 percent of the world's daily oil exports (28 million barrels). A considerable part of the oil imported by the United States, Western Europe, Japan and other countries comes from the Gulf region. Once Iraq succeeds in occupying Kuwait, Saddam Hussein, who holds one-fifth of the world's oil resources and has a large number of troops, is likely to become the spokesman for oil production in the Gulf region, and as long as Saddam Hussein gives an order to control oil production, the price of oil will certainly rise sharply.

Xu Cun smiled: "I'm not Saddam Hussein who needs money to stabilize the situation, making more money and less money on oil and gas will have little impact on me." -- Although oil and gas has become one of Xu Cun's main businesses, just as Xu Cun said, at the current stage of ultra-low oil prices, the little profit made by oil and gas is really not in the eyes of Xu Cun, who has a big business.

The elder Bush, who had already checked Xu Cun to the bottom, naturally knew that Xu Cun was not arrogant, otherwise he and Xu Cun would not have met this time.

The elder Bush looked straight and said, "I have submitted a proposal to Congress to issue war bonds, if the proposal passes, can you support it?"

Before coming to the White House, Xu Cun had already inquired with George W. Bush that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf countries had bought $50 billion in US Treasury bonds, and Japan and Germany had each bought $10 billion in US Treasury bonds (this was not war spending).

Xu Cun tapped his fingers lightly on the table in front of him for a while before he said, "I'll buy 10 billion US Treasury bonds first." ”

As soon as Xu Cun said this, a smile immediately appeared on Bush Sr.'s old face -- Bush Sr. served as a torpedo bomber pilot in the Pacific Fleet during World War II and was also awarded the Flying Cross. Therefore, he was born in a military and knew very well that if a war really began, it would be difficult to estimate how long it would last, and how much it would cost would be incalculable. Therefore, Xu Cun opened his mouth and took out 10 billion US dollars to support him to start the war, and also left a living mouth to continue to support him, which is enough to show Xu Cun's strong support for his attitude.

Such strong support was immediately rewarded by Bush Sr.!

Bush Sr. said in a deep voice: "Many countries think that the United States is just a paper tiger country, we are still plagued by Vietnam War syndrome, and since the Vietnam War, most US presidents are unwilling to use force to solve some problems in the world, so I guess Saddam Hussein thinks that the United States will not use force to help a small country like Kuwait...... I have tried to warn Saddam that I am in no way bluffing, alas...... Saddam Hussein didn't seem to heed my warnings to him. ”

Based on Xu Cun's experience, how could he not hear that Bush Sr. was telling himself: "If Iraq does not withdraw its troops from Kuwait, then I, George Herbert Walker Bush, will launch this war against Iraq!"

Was this news helpful?

If Xu Cun is not a person of foresight, this news is useful, very useful, very useful -- as one of the princes of the global oil market, Xu Cun is completely qualified to sit in the bank and bet on oil futures, and the news that Bush Sr. gave to Xu Cun is actually the direction in which Xu Cun sits in the bank. Of course, such a big war can never be decided because of the will of one person alone, even if this person is the current president of the United States, because this is a world-class game of countless parties. But then again, even if the gamers say it, the one who plays the leading role is also the old Bush, the current president of the United States, so getting the news of the old Bush is enough for those bold people to gamble on a game.

But-

For Xu Cun, a person with foresight, the news of Bush Sr. has become dispensable, because even without this news of Bush Sr., Xu Cun will sit in this village.

Actually,

Xu Cun had already sat in this village and made a huge bet of tens of billions of dollars that the Gulf War would break out and oil prices would skyrocket.

If this were not the case, how could Xu Cun unanimously buy tens of billions of dollars of US Treasury bonds to support Bush Sr. in fighting this war?

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