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Why have the Middle East and Africa remained a powder keg for decades from World War II to modern times? In addition to the deliberate legacy of national borders and ethnic problems by countries in the Western world, the most fundamental reason is because of resources.

Whether it's oil or minerals, as long as your country has these things, and you don't have that strong military strength to protect them, then I'm sorry, I have to find something for you to provoke your civil strife.

Throughout history, all wars, except for national struggles, are resource struggles. Even in all the major non-civil wars after World War II, except for the war in Afghanistan, which was due to political factors, all other wars were due to the competition for resources.

Libya's fault is that they are too rich.

Since the discovery of oil in Libya, the country has seen several coups over oil. Later, Colonel Ka seized the throne of power, and since he initially followed the pace of Western countries, he was stable for decades.

However, in recent years, the price of oil has risen sharply, and Libya has made more and more money. Since the beginning of the new century alone, three oil fields of several billion tons have been discovered in Libya.

These oil fields are so tempting! And Colonel Ka, relying on his money, began to vigorously win over allies in Africa, and the African Union almost became his word.

The most excessive thing is that their own country not only produces gold, but also goes to the United States and Britain to buy gold, and it is ten or twenty tons to buy it. By 2011, the Libyan treasury had 143 tons of gold.

He also wants to rely on this gold to develop his own monetary union in Africa, although not like the European Union, which agrees to use the euro, but to set aside the euro and the dollar as its own trading system.

This is to grab food in the mouths of Western countries! He doesn't look for fights, who looks for fights!

Today's Libya has been closed off by NATO countries, and all external channels are closed, and even planes in the air are not allowed to fly. At this time, the gold in his treasury not only did not serve any purpose, but also became a source of evil.

As a strongman who has ruled a country for more than 40 years, although he is not as capable as Saddam, he is not an idiot.

Although Zhou You is now closer to Western countries, it is not the same heart, and some of them are of each other. Today, when the external channel has been closed, only the traveling planes can go in and out of Libya, and only the traveling ships can enter and leave Libya, so of course he will take advantage of this convenience to open up a channel.

Forty tons of gold, that's his sincerity.

Since last year, the international gold price has risen rapidly and has now reached US$170 billion per ounce, due to various factors such as the recovery of the US stock market, the weakening of the US dollar, the increasing debt problems in Europe, the rapid development of the mainland economy, and the strong demand for gold.

At this price, one ton of gold is worth $60 million, and those forty tons of gold are worth $2.4 billion.

Although $2.2 billion is nothing for Zhou You, it does not mean that with $2.2 billion, you can easily buy 40 tons of gold.

There is no need to pay a direct price for these forty tons of gold, Colonel Ka spent so much gold, and what he bought was just a guarantee, a promise.

Colonel Card was trying to keep himself out because all his deposits abroad had been frozen, including his family's account in a Swiss bank.

The gold will be placed here for Zhou You, who in the future will provide at least a billion dollars in financial assistance to him or his family.

Here, Zhou played a heart's eye. He deliberately said that in order to keep it secret, he agreed with Colonel Ka that only one of his descendants would know about this matter except for Colonel Ka.

As expected, the leader of the Khamis Brigade, who was fighting in Colonel Ka's hometown of Sirte, his youngest son, Khamis, became the direct executor. Except for Hamis, no one else knew about it at all.

And Zhou You remembers very well that Colonel Ka was captured and executed after the defeat, and most of his children survived, but Khamis was not among them, because Khamis was later blown up.

It's just that Zhou You has forgotten whether Khamis died before him or after him.

Anyway, for the sake of these forty tons of gold, Zhou You has already made arrangements, and even if Khamis is not killed, he will kill him.

As for the others, when the car got on the boat and on the way back, they had already been killed by the Khamis men. The only people in the know on their side are now their father and son.

On 9 April, a delegation of African leaders headed by South African President Zuma, including the presidents of seven countries, came to Libya to mediate.

But after two days of negotiations, the opposition rejected the peace initiative because Colonel Ka refused to step down.

On the 12th, the fighting resumed. The port of Brega became a major battlefield for both sides, and due to the fire between the two sides, some shells even fell directly into the refinery.

After receiving the report, Zhou You contacted Sarkozy, Jalil and others by phone, and for the first time organized soldiers to block the intersection around the refinery.

The all-electronic forces against the Libyan millet plus rifles, the security forces of the Libyan civil war, which were not easily provoked by both sides of the Libyan civil war, were isolated from the refineries and ports.

However, the warring sides did not dare to come, and the refugees squeezed in for their lives. Travelers could not be violent against these refugees, so refugee areas were set up in ports and oil refineries to entertain them.

The number of refugees is increasing, and the logistics of traveling around are simply not available. In response to the call of Zhou You, the European Union sent a transport ship to reach the port of Brega with a lot of food from Italy.

International organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Refugee Organization have also sent a number of people to assist the traveling security companies to rescue these refugees and settle their lives.

Because of this, Zhouyou's international reputation is also getting better and better. Some European countries have even called for this year's Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to Zhou You.

Now, the general small profit is no longer attractive to travel, but the Nobel Prize is still quite attractive.

If you really talk about it, the peace negotiations of the Colombian civil war were promoted by Zhou You, but because he could not stimulate the United States and kept hiding behind his back, the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 was awarded to Colombian President Uribe and the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, Marulanda, but he did not travel around.

This time, he has a chance to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and of course he has to gather momentum for himself.

After consulting with the leaders of Britain, France, and Germany, Zhou You sent another 500 soldiers and 500 bodyguards to Libya, who were mainly responsible for the rescue of Libyan civilians.

In mid-April, the first meeting of the Libya Contact Group was held in Doha, the capital of Qatar. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, representatives of the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Spain, and international organizations such as the European Union, NATO, the Arab League, and the African Union attended the meeting to discuss the resolution on Libya.

But this meeting, neither side of the Libyan civil war participated.

At the meeting, the traveling delegate, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, called on the international community to step up humanitarian assistance to Libya.

Leaders agreed to provide more humanitarian aid to Libya and reached a series of agreements. NATO, for its part, said it was ready to provide military assistance for that purpose, but it also said it would not send troops to participate in humanitarian aid operations. Because according to the agreement they reached with the opposition, they will not send ground troops into Libya, except for a few military observers.

At the same time, the defense ministers of the European Union countries gathered at the African base where Zhou You, inspected his bases in Africa, and signed an agreement with Zhou You to expand cooperation, requiring Zhou You to send a total of 5,000 troops to Libya within a year.

The five thousand will not be involved in any military operations aimed at protecting Libya's oil fields and pipelines, as well as oil refineries. Even the Americans are in favor of this agreement, because the war has halted Libya's oil exports, and the pressure on the government has increased from European and American oil groups.

The signing of this agreement also allowed Zhou You to carry out a new round of military expansion, and selected 3,000 people from the African and South American security teams alone, and selected 1,000 Chinese from Southeast Asia, all of whom were sent to South America for special training.

By the end of May, the number of traveling military service companies exceeded 10,000 for the first time, making it the largest military service company in the world in terms of number of people.

If you count the security companies on the tour last week, the total number of people exceeds 70,000, and if this military force can be integrated, the whole world will be afraid of it.

For this reason, Zhou You has also encountered unprecedented pressure, and it is okay to expand if you want to, but this force must be controlled. The EU is willing to increase its circumstantial power, but there is a condition that EU forces intervene in this force.

A very important condition for Zhou You to sign an agreement with the EU is that the leadership of the security company must have the strength of the EU, and the military service company must also have an EU observation mission.

Zhou You's gathering this strength is not for the sake of hegemony, and in modern society, there is no environment for him to compete for hegemony. Zhou You only wanted to deter and protect his property, so he happily agreed to their conditions.

What's more, Zhou You is too lazy to that heart. Now that he has a lot of power in his hands, he doesn't need to worry too much, and he is already satisfied with Zhou You.

At the end of May, 4,000 soldiers and former logistical staff were all stationed in Libya. Landing from the ceasefire in Port Brega and not entering either the Government-controlled west or the anti-Government-controlled east, the men dispersed and were placed in the agreed protection zone.

These areas, recognized by both sides of the civil war, are designed to protect Libya's most valuable oil assets, which will have a positive effect on their post-war reconstruction, regardless of who wins or loses.

Under pressure from the international community, both sides of the civil war were forced to agree that these areas of oil assets would not become war zones in the future.

Under the protection of traveling soldiers, major oil companies also sent teams of engineers to repair oilfield equipment and extinguish oilfield fires, but the war did not end for a day, and production could not be resumed for a day.

The war in Libya is a tug-of-war and has been raging, today you have the advantage, tomorrow I have the advantage, and Misrata has become the fiercest battlefield on both sides of the civil war, changing hands three times in just one month.

The situation was stalemate, and NATO was also a little anxious, and in the process of bombing, began to target Colonel Ka's supporters.

This act was strongly condemned by the international community and also caused NATO to suffer an unprecedented crisis of confidence. However, according to UN resolution 1973, they could not send ground troops into Libya, only bombed by warplanes, and their direct intervention in the war was insufficient.

Zhou You also came under strong lobbying in the hope that Zhou You's army could help the rebels when conditions permitted. But this request was directly rejected by Zhou You, because he knew very well that if he really mixed it in, he would never be able to wash it clean. What's more, he also received forty tons of gold from Colonel Ka, so he couldn't just lose face at all, and he turned his head and beat him.

It was also at this time that members of the US Congress sued Obama, alleging that he had abused his power to strike Libya by force without the consent of the parliament. The U.S. Congress has proposed to limit funding for the war effort and stop funding for the Libyan war. The White House immediately became anxious, saying that it could not stop supplying funds, and the two sides began a new round of fighting.

And in Europe, in response to the actual situation in Libya, the EU countries have also begun to divide among themselves. As Libya's former suzerain, Italian Foreign Minister Frattini called on Libya to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible so that humanitarian relief can be sent to the country.

Britain, France and other countries not only did not express their approval, but even "scoffed", which fully shows that the differences within NATO member states on the actions against Libya have become public.

In its previous life, the port of Brega was an important battlefield of fierce fighting between the two sides of the civil war and the main target of NATO air strikes. But in this life, because the traveling military service companies used it as their home port, it not only did not become the main battlefield, but became an important target for civilians to flee.

The airport and port have been expanded to receive aid from the international community. In addition, the oil refinery, which has been shut down, has been used as a base camp, and more than 300,000 refugees have been accommodated, and more than 8,000 public welfare personnel from international organizations have served here.

However, in order to prevent civil unrest, the camp has a strict management system, with no entry or exit, and each person has a separate identification document, and any seditious acts are subject to expulsion.

Zhou You has done so much for the Nobel Peace Prize next year. Not for this reason, at most, he would pick some beautiful little girls from among the refugees and take care of them. As for the other 300,000 people, he didn't care if they lived or died.

He never wanted to be a saint, or a saint to a bunch of Arabs.

Although the Nobel Peace Prize is nothing in the upper class, it is still relatively lofty for most people. Zhou You now has nothing to ask for profit, but his reputation is not very good, and he still wants to change this.

Of course, the main reason, he still didn't tell anyone.