Chapter 282: The Third Industrial Revolution
Iran is not treated well by major powers, but there is one big country in the world that treats it very well, and that is the flower planter. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoBecause the imperial capital adheres to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence internationally, it does not favor Iraq or snub Iran.
Coincidentally, Allen had a large arms business in Iran and Pakistan, while Iraq did not do it because of Saddam's dictatorship. After the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, the two countries suddenly became the sweets of global arms dealers, and Allen could not do business in Iraq, so naturally he could only sell arms to Iran.
When Allen and the arms sales representative of the Southern Heavy Industries Group provided cheap weapons to Iran, in the eyes of Iran, it was the flower growers who extended an olive branch to them.
As one of the five hooligans, the flower planter can be impartial in the international arena and speak for Iran at the UN General Assembly, after all, the war was provoked by Iraq, and Iran was on the side of justice at the beginning of the war.
The support of the flower grower is a great encouragement for the Persian cat!
In fact, since replacing India as the leader of the third world countries, the flower growers have often helped the poor brothers in Asia, Africa and Latin America to speak and do things in the United Nations, after all, the flower growers have not forgotten that they can enter the United Nations because the poor brothers of Asia, Africa and Latin America voted to carry them in.
Compared with Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, which only cared about their own interests and trampled on the sovereignty of other countries, they are really good big brothers of third world countries.
More importantly, the flower growers not only spoke for Iran at the United Nations, but also did not forget to transport tanks, warplanes and artillery to Iran in private.
In the past 30 years, in order to deal with the military threat of the Soviet Union in the north, the war stocks have piled up, and a considerable part of them have passed their expiration date, and it is expensive and laborious to destroy and clean up. Therefore, the army took advantage of the black hole of materials of the Iran-Iraq war and dumped all these arms in one go, not only earning money but also gaining the friendship of Persian cats!
The Iran-Iraq war is really in full swing, and it can't stop at all, sometimes a fleet transports millions of shells, and the army of the Persian cat family is exhausted in less than a week, and the flower family is constantly urging the flower family to continue to ship!
The Iranian government was very grateful to the Iranian government for only a steady supply of arms and materials, and the relations between the two countries warmed up rapidly, and the commercial and trade exchanges mainly with military materials and oil expanded rapidly.
Halfway through the Iran-Iraq war, Iran fell into even greater trouble, and the Soviet Union behind it began to eyed him, and Iran's national strength could never support a two-front war.
At this time, as long as the Soviet Union came behind Iran for such a moment, the Persian cat had no other way but to bear it.
If the Persian cat is controlled by the Soviet Union, the most urgent ones are Europe, the United States and Western countries, but they can't pull their faces to take the initiative to help this country.
After careful consideration, the Americans came up with the idea of providing military and economic assistance to Iran through the flower planters, directly giving money to China, and letting China send arms to the Persian cats in the form of free aid. Of course, the flower planter is also very sincere, and did not take advantage of the operation, but actually delivered a sufficient amount of weapons and equipment to Iran.
Anyway, the Americans paid for China's military enterprises to produce munitions, and in the process, our military factories got orders, and the life of the workers was much better, so there was no need to do the work of picking the skin of snakes.
Of course, all this was done in secret, and even Iran did not know that the free arms sent by the flower growers were actually money from the Americans, and the relationship between China and Iran was too close, which made Pakistan next to it a little jealous.
The advantages of being friends with an oil tycoon are obvious, the oil tanker of the flower grower went to Iran to load oil, and it was enough to buy only half a ship, but the oil company of the Persian cat filled you with oil, and only charged half a boat of oil. For them, oil is about the same as water, and if you put a pipe in the ground, the oil will spew out, and it's not a problem to decorate the good brothers!
In this Iran-Iraq war, the Chinese family can be said to have picked up a big bargain, not only earning billions of dollars in foreign exchange through the sale of weapons to Iran, obtaining cheap Iranian oil, but also greatly promoting the development of domestic military enterprises, and finally gaining the friendship of fraternal countries.
The intimacy of Sino-Iranian relations has made the US imperialists breathe a sigh of relief, as long as they can continue to provide Iran with economic and military support through China, the Soviet Union will not want to take this country easily.
It's just that the two countries didn't expect that the Soviet Union would actually take the edge of the sword, and it seemed that they knew that China and the United States were strictly guarding him from entering the Middle East, so they simply turned a corner and took Pakistan first, and then attacked India!
Ordinary people may not understand, the Asan family has no oil, what is the use of Lao Maozi taking the risk of offending the world to take this country?
It's very useful!
There is no energy in the family, but the country has one thing that the Soviet Union has coveted for a long time - and that is a billion cheap human resources.
What was most lacking in the USSR? That is the industrial population, the entire Soviet Union with a total population of 280 million, but with 70 million workers, supporting a powerful heavy industry system.
However, the Soviet Union pressed the industrial population on the heavy industry and military industry, aerospace, nuclear power, missile industry, warship manufacturing, and tanks all occupied a large number of industrial population, so that the Soviet Union's light industry and agricultural population were seriously scarce, light industry is the production of consumer goods, agriculture is the production of food, the development of these two industries lags behind, the most direct result is that Lao Maozi has to queue for an hour to buy rice and toilet paper on the street, which is somewhat incompatible with the red empire in the world and the United States imperialism.
The size of the population is one of the most important indicators of the extent to which an industrial country can develop!
In the first industrial revolution before World War I, European countries with a population of a few million or tens of millions could get an industrial chain of millions of industrial population, so they could afford to play ironclad warships.
During the Eight-Nation Coalition invasion of China, Britain, France, the United States, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Austria basically included all the industrial powers in the world at that time, and only these countries in the world could design, produce and manufacture steel warships.
By the time of World War I, the industrial chain had expanded several times, and battleships, guns, and airplanes could not be played without tens of millions of industrial population, so Italy and Austria-Hungary were eliminated in World War I.
World War II had more requirements for the industrial population, and the industrial chain of battleships, aircraft carriers, tanks on land, bombers and fighter planes in the sky could not be rolled out.
For example, Japan is constrained by the lack of industrial population and is jumping on one leg, this country has one of the most powerful navies in the world, the battleships are bigger than the aircraft carriers, but the army is not good, the Xiaodou tank that can be entangled in barbed wire, and the Southern Type 14 pistol, which is unreliable for suicide.
Germany in Europe is no better, the army is incomparably stronger, but the price paid is at the expense of aircraft carriers and long-range bombers.
After World War II, only countries with a population of more than 100 million could form a complete industrial system, which is why the United States and the Soviet Union were able to become world hegemons, while European countries with a population of tens of millions could only be reduced to second-rate.
But the problem is that the US-led Western camp has a pro-American population in Asia and Europe that has enough industrial population to help it share part of the industrial chain!
Because the United States needs to free up enough industrial population to prepare for the third industrial revolution, and the existing light and heavy industries have already occupied the industrial population, and light industry must be moved out, so there is the rise of the Asian tigers and the economic miracle of Japan.
Not in the USSR, where all the countries of the world, with some industrial population, were in the West. The Soviet Union was full of countries that were not good at doing things, and who wanted money and aided more than anyone else.
When the Soviet Union was strong, it could also use money to solve the problem of shortage of living materials by buying, buying, buying, and buying, and once the Soviet economy began to decline, the living standards of the Soviet people would plummet.
The Soviet Union was already close to the Arctic Circle, and the agricultural output was polar in the cold and freezing, and in addition to the large cooperative farms eating in big pots, the peasants' enthusiasm for labor was even lower, and the output decreased year after year, and by the 80s, grain had to be completely imported.
Importing food is tantamount to giving your life to someone else!
The most obvious place is that the old Maozi queuing up to shop on the street is waiting for longer and longer, it used to only take an hour, but now it may not be possible to buy it for three or five hours.
Excessive investment in heavy industry caused the Soviet Union's light industry to seriously lag behind in its development, and there was a shortage of social materials, and the Soviet Union urgently needed to train a large number of helpers to serve as a production area for other grain and light industrial consumer goods.
The Soviet Union could help the country build an industrial system and develop its economy. Looking at the world, there are only three families with a population base of more than one billion!
Which country in the world meets the requirements of the USSR? Those small countries in Eastern Europe are definitely not good, Africa is the traditional sphere of influence of Western countries, and Uncle Black can't do anything except play with urine, and it is a joke to go to Black Africa to develop industry.
Taking advantage of the rare opportunity of the Western oil crisis and serious overcapacity, Mr. Deng decisively opened the door to welcome Western guests. The governments of Europe, the United States, and Japan are about to go crazy at this time by the economic crisis that is about to erupt, and the flower growers appear like saviors.
Japan was the first to get the first place, followed by the United States and Europe, who desperately moved their domestic labor-intensive industries to China, and the flower growers officially joined the huge industrial chain of the Western world with their cheap and large population. After Western countries released these low value-added industries, a large number of people were freed up, so the United States and Japan began the third industrial revolution successively, the semiconductor industry began to flourish, and large-scale integrated circuits began to sweep the Western world.
Seeing that the United States has started the third industrial revolution by transferring the low-end industrial chain to the flower planters. The Soviet Union was in a hurry to catch fire, and naturally made a major adjustment in its global strategy, and it was necessary to digest Afghanistan as soon as possible, annex Pakistan, take India as its industrial transfer place, and start the third industrial revolution after freeing up enough industrial population.
Once the United States completes its industrial upgrading ahead of schedule, the Soviet Union will only be left to be beaten. (To be continued.) )