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"The biggest crisis?" Prince Abdullah asked puzzledly, in his opinion, the Kuwaiti royal family can return to Kuwait, it is already Allah's blessing! Kuwait's national strength is like heaven and earth compared to Iraq's, and without the help of the Americans, it would have been difficult for Saudi Arabia and other countries to join forces, and it would have been difficult to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

However, Fang Mingyuan has already made it very clear that this war, the Americans will undoubtedly win, and the Kuwaiti royal family will definitely return to Kuwait. Although I don't understand that Fang Mingyuan has such great confidence, the "prophecy" that Fang Mingyuan said has come true these times, which naturally makes Prince Abdullah have a lot of confidence in him. Naturally, he attaches great importance to his opinion. Fang Mingyuan said such an oath, which made Prince Abdullah feel a little more hopeful.

"Yes, the biggest crisis! A crisis for Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and humanity around the world! Fang Mingyuan was right.

Hearing Fang Mingyuan say so solemnly, Prince Abdullah's heart immediately raised his throat, he couldn't think of anything that could actually mention such a height as the global human race.

"Your Royal Highness, presumably your royal family has been mentally prepared, if Iraq refuses to withdraw its troops, the two sides will fight, and it will inevitably cause potentially devastating damage to Kuwait City?" Fang Mingyuan tapped on the coffee table.

Prince Abdullah nodded, is it war, how can it not hurt civilians and buildings, in World War II, I don't know how many cities in many countries were in ruins. This is true for France, for Great Britain, for the Soviet Union, for Germany, and naturally Kuwait cannot be special. But in the eyes of the Kuwaiti royal family, as long as the land can be recovered, within a few years, a new Kuwait city will be re-established on the shores of the Persian Gulf. The national primary school has this advantage, the speed of reconstruction is fast, the cost is not too high, and there is a steady stream of oil production in Kuwait's underground, and the Kuwaiti royal family is still confident in this amount of money. The Emir even intended to pay for the reconstruction of the houses of the people who had been damaged in the war, at the expense of the government.

"Your Royal Highness, have you ever thought about it, the end of the war does not mean the arrival of happiness!" Fang Mingyuan said meaningfully, "Haven't any of you ever thought about mobilizing people from all over the world to deal with oil spills and extinguish oil wells?" ”

"Mobilizing equipment and personnel from countries around the world to control oil spills and extinguish oil wells?" Prince Abdullah was even more stunned, what did he do with these people?

At this time, people around the world who are concerned about the situation in Iraq and Kuwait would not have imagined that as the war progresses, the largest oil pollution in the history of mankind will also appear in the Gulf region! Oil is one of the energy cornerstones of modern industrial society, so military operations to destroy oil facilities as an effective way to weaken the war potential of enemy forces were not uncommon in the wars of the 20th century. But never before has there ever been an oil spill as big as the Gulf War. It has brought almost annihilation to the marine ecological environment and coastal people of the Persian Gulf.

Marine pollution during the Gulf War was mainly caused by oil spills caused by military operations by both sides and deliberate dumping by the Iraqi army. According to incomplete statistics from experts on various post-war events, the multinational coalition forces destroyed a large number of oil facilities in Iraq and Kuwait and caused oil spills during air strikes. Iraq has also fought back at Saudi Arabia's oil facilities. At the same time, the Iraqi army pumped oil from Kuwait's oil fields and dumped it into the gulf.

According to experts' estimates, during the entire process, the oil spill caused by the military operations of both sides and the deliberate oil spill by Iraqi soldiers was nearly 10 million barrels, which was dozens of times the global average annual oil leak at that time! In the Persian Gulf, a huge polluted area has been formed. Zuihou has led to a complete halt in fishing operations in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia, which relies on desalination for domestic use, is facing difficulties in supplying fresh water due to the contamination of some desalination plants along the coast by the oil slick. The oil slick also left seabirds in the Persian Gulf covered in oil, unable to fly and left to die on beaches and rocks. Other marine life has not escaped the catastrophe, with whales, dolphins, turtles, shrimp and crabs, and all kinds of fish poisoned or suffocated to death, becoming the biggest victims of the war.

Fang Mingyuan still clearly remembers the tragic picture of the poor birds and fish he saw on TV, all covered in pitch-black oil, and they were powerless to break free at all, so they could only wait there to die.

After listening to Fang Mingyuan's description, Prince Abdullah couldn't help jumping up and said excitedly: "Fang, are you saying that it is possible that the Iraqis deliberately poured oil into the bay during the war?" This, this, this...... They're crazy! As an Arab, he was naturally more aware of the terrible consequences of this act. He couldn't believe that Iraqis could do such a desperate thing.

"Not possible, in my opinion it is inevitable!" Fang Mingyuan motioned for him to sit down, "If Iraq's army can still have a ranking on Shijie, then his navy is definitely not in the stream." Compared to the fleet of the Americans, it is simply vulnerable. In this case, if the Iraqi army commander, in order to ensure coastal security and prevent the US military from conducting a landing operation, attacked their flank, as he did in the Korean War, would he have any other choice but to release oil? ”

Prince Abdullah was silent for a long time, and then nodded, it is indeed as Fang Mingyuan said, compared with the US aircraft carrier formation, the Iraqi navy is as ridiculous as a small sampan, if the US military intends to carry out a landing on the coastline for war, the Iraqi navy is simply powerless to stop it, and if Iraq mobilizes troops to defend the coastline, it will undoubtedly disperse its forces. In contrast, releasing oil at sea is undoubtedly the first choice of the Iraqi army.

"Then mobilize the oil wells to extinguish...... Fang, you mean, the Iraqis will light the oil wells? Prince Abdullah suddenly reacted and exclaimed. His voice even caused the Ministry of Foreign Affairs personnel who were originally standing outside the door to immediately rush in, and when they saw that the two of them were safe in the living room, they retreated again.

"There is this possibility, I have an old saying in Huaxia, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of just in case! If Saddam Hussein had been defeated by the US military, who would have dared to guarantee that he, who could use the citizens of Western countries as human shields, would not order the oil fields of Kuwait to be set on fire? Fang Mingyuan's question was very sharp, leaving Prince Abdullah speechless. Yes, Saddam Hussein, who is already defying the condemnation of the world, what else does he dare not do? But the damage caused by burning oil wells can be said to be more than oil leaks!

In Fang Mingyuan's previous life, according to those military experts, Iraq's practice of igniting oil fields before the defeat was on the one hand to vent its anger, and on the other hand, it wanted to slow down the US military's offensive and cover its ground targets with thick smoke. However, the thick smoke in the sky has indeed greatly affected the air support of the coalition forces, resulting in a decrease in aircraft attendance, an increase in maintenance costs, and a significant reduction in the success rate of attacks on Iraqi military targets.

However, for this little military victory of the Iraqis, Kuwait, the Middle East, and even the whole Shijie have paid a heavy price for it, and even China, which is thousands of miles away, has been affected by this.

In this war, about 900 oil wells in Kuwait were finally destroyed, and with the hard work of the oil well fire brigades from all over the country, these ignited oil wells still burned for nearly eight months before all of them were extinguished. At most, nearly one million tons of crude oil are burned in a day. The smoke from the ignition of the oil from the explosion of crude oil from the enormous underground pressure formed hundreds of dragons of fire, and the smoke from the burning obscured the sky and made the day look like night, and even at noon, the visibility in Kuwait City was only a few meters, and the temperature plummeted. People drive during the day with their headlights on, and walk with flashlights. Such scenes were previously only seen in horror movies depicting the end of Shijie.

The burning of oil wells also caused massive air pollution, and soon the air in Kuwait and surrounding areas was filled with a pungent and choking odor; After a few black rains, the whole of Kuwait became greasy and slippery. And people are often surprised to see that a bird flying freely in the air will suddenly fall to the ground and die as if it had been hit by a bullet; Many cattle and sheep have been poisoned after eating contaminated grass leaves, and they have died in painful convulsions, but the herders can only stand by and be helpless. Moreover, the large number of soldiers of the multinational force who developed the Gulf War syndrome after the war is said to have a very important relationship with this.

The burning of a large number of oil wells can also lead to atmospheric climate anomalies. Due to the thick smoke that obscured the sky, the amount of sunlight in the area was greatly reduced, and the vegetation and soil were also affected. In addition, the burning caused high acidity acid rain in many parts of the Middle East, causing great damage to local plants. Even in Iran, about a few hundred kilometres east of Kuwait, there was a slimy black rain.

And according to experts, a large amount of dust from the burning of oil spreads high in the air, and the black smoke moves eastward through the warm and moist air currents over the Indian Ocean, and then condenses into black snow as it drifts over the Himalayas. The black snow will quickly absorb sunlight, causing a large amount of ice and snow to melt, thus causing the river to swell, which has become the root cause of the nationwide floods in China in 91 years.

Whether the experts' speculation is accurate or not, Fang Mingyuan does not know, although he thinks that the floods in China in 91 years are more due to the indiscriminate felling of vegetation in the country in recent years, resulting in serious soil erosion, coupled with the large number of lakes and fields in the country, resulting in the undiverted flow of excess river water, which eventually caused a catastrophe.

However, this kind of thing is rather believed than believed, and the Kuwaiti royal family is reminded in advance that if it can attract the attention of the multinational coalition, protect Kuwait's oil fields in advance, and reduce the pollution caused by it, whether it can affect China in the end, it is also a merit. V