Chapter 2021: The conflict begins to escalate
(Second update, 6000 words chapter)
The reaction of the reporters was not sensitive enough, but the most sensitive stock market reacted to the republic's statement, and on the afternoon after the regular press conference of the US State Department, the US stock market fell sharply again without warning, and by the time the stock market closed for the rest of the day, the three major US stock markets as a whole had fallen by more than 0.13
Reporters don't know the weight of China's remarks, but don't those experts in the financial and economic circles in the United States know? Don't the businessmen and bankers who make money in the subprime mortgage market in the United States know? The Chinese government's implicit statement immediately made them understand that this matter is serious, and some funds that were hesitant to withdraw from the subprime mortgage market have begun to withdraw from the subprime mortgage market at this time, so that the collective plunge of the three major US stock markets has become inevitable.
How much are all the three major stock markets in the U.S. worth? That's in trillions of dollars, and the overall decline of 0.13 means that in just half a day, nearly 100 billion dollars of wealth has evaporated from the US stock market
Nearly 100 billion dollars of wealth was evaporated in an instant, and even the wealthy United States was extremely painful, but they also knew that if they didn't know that there was such a serious problem in their subprime mortgage market, how could the Chinese government make such a statement? The worst thing is, how can the 10th largest mortgage lender in the United States: the American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation collapse?
In particular, the faint warning in the remarks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China made the US dignitaries a little frightened: In this way, the seriousness of the situation exceeded their expectations...... From the words of Zhang Qi, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, they heard the deeper meaning of the remarks of the Republic: If you do not quickly take strong measures to save the US subprime mortgage market, but allow the problems in the US subprime mortgage market to continue like this, there is no guarantee that the Chinese government will not sell off the US Treasury bonds in the hands of the Republic.
That's right, the U.S. government can take advantage of the huge U.S. Treasury bonds in the hands of the Republic to force the Republic to save them in a critical moment, but this premise is that the Republic eats their set, and if the Republic really makes up its mind to sell the U.S. Treasury bonds in its hands even if it loses a few pieces of meat from its own body, or even carry out panic selling, the U.S. Government can now declare itself in the countdown to bankruptcy.
The large amount of US Treasury bonds sold by the United States is originally a double-edged sword, which the United States can use to threaten its creditors: saying that if you don't help me, I will do something, and at the same time, creditors can also use it to threaten the United States: Lao Tzu is out of the way, just to see your bad luck
Not to mention, the Republic's vague and tough statement really suppressed those guys in the US Government who were originally ready to move and wanted to fight the idea of the Republic: It really annoyed the largest creditor of the United States, although whether the United States is good or not has nothing to do with itself, but the problem is that it will not be easy for itself at that time...... It seems that the time has come to take some immediate action to show it.
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No matter what kind of impact this economic crisis has on the United States, the two wars that are going on will not stop because of this, and even, because the Iraqis have swept their face so heavily, some people in the US military who do not know the seriousness of this matter have been clamoring for bloody revenge on the dead Iraqis, "We will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons for this", this is the mantra that these people have been on their lips all day long.
After discovering that the use of conventional weapons could no longer do anything to Iraq, but would cause the United States to lose great face, some people in the United States, especially some people in the US military, had the feeling that someone had suddenly rushed up from behind on the street and forcibly exploded their chrysanthemums.
But George W. Bush hesitated, because until now they had not determined where the remnants of the Third Reich were.
Yes, combined with the evidence it has, the U.S. government believes that this incident is inseparable from the remnants of the legendary Third Reich, but what makes the U.S. government a headache is that although everyone knows that this matter was done by the remnants of the damned Third Reich, there is no way to find these guys hiding in the sewers like rats...,
Not being able to find these rat-like guys means that they can attack the great United States of America as much as they want, without fear of retaliation from the United States of America...... Those who think this way forget that many of their technologies are actually inherited from the Third Reich.
The Third Reich, which has not been found for a long time, has made the whole United States fall into the trap.
It's not okay not to continue, because ...... Damn the Iranians are provoking the United States again
Yes, after successfully capturing the RQ-170 "Sentinel" stealth drone of the United States, the Iranians seem to have suddenly become more aggressive and aggressive, as if they had been stimulated, which made the US government very uncomfortable in dealing with this matter: continue to insist on the previous tough attitude, and Iran is not afraid now; A war with Iran? I'm sorry, but Iran is even less afraid.
At present, the United States, on the Iranian issue, is quite a bit of a tiger. However, as far as the Americans are concerned, it is not without good news, at least the two F-22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters that were shot down by the Iranians in an unknown way, the Iranians have tacitly not mentioned it.
The Iranians did not say anything about the two F-22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters shot down by Iran, and the Americans were naturally happy to pretend that they did not know the role played by the Iranians in this incident, but they only said in the briefing that two US F-22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters accidentally disappeared while carrying out patrol and reconnaissance missions in northern Iran and had lost contact with the base, and that they had not found any news related to the two F-22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters. Even a while ago, when the United States and Iran were engaged in a never-ending dispute over the nuclear issue and the RQ-170 "Sentinel" stealth unmanned reconnaissance plane captured by Iran, the US Government exerted pressure on Iran in the media and said that the Iranian Government would agree to the US military sending a search and rescue team to the northern region of Iran, where the signals of the two F-22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters had finally disappeared, to search for traces of the two F-22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters, and refused to admit the two F-22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters. 22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters were shot down by the Iranians.
As far as the Iranians are concerned, the Americans' cover-up approach is actually playing into their hands.
The Iranians do not want to meet the Americans, but if the news spreads that Iran has successfully shot down two US F-22 "Raptor" heavy stealth fighters, there will be no room for Iran and the United States to turn around, and at that time, I am afraid that it will be impossible for the United States and Iran not to go to war.
In their opinion, if the Americans are bullied in Iran, the US government has the responsibility and obligation to teach the Iranians a hard lesson, so that they can understand who is the real boss of the world, but for Iran and the United States, Iran has hardly made preparations for a war with the United States, especially a big war, and the United States really can't afford to fight, even if it has that heart, it doesn't have that strength, and modern warfare is about money"As soon as the U.S. military machine starts, it's a bottomless gold-eating beast, and with the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. really has no money.
And now, this news has not been released, and everyone has much more room to turn around: no matter how valuable the RQ-170 "Sentinel" stealth unmanned reconnaissance plane captured by the Iranians is, we have no dead people, right? For the U.S. military and the American people, who are now striving for low casualties and even beginning to move toward the goal of "zero casualties," as long as there are no deaths, everything else will be easy.
But despite this, George W. Bush still has a headache: how should he respond to Ahmadinejad's repeated tough speeches? Especially after Ahmadinejad announced Iran's development in nuclear research, it made the United States head several times bigger.
Yes, Ahmadinejad was very active at this time, originally Ahmadinejad was a staunch Islamist, and the reason why he did so before was mainly because of the huge gap between the combat effectiveness and the overall national strength between the United States and Iran, but now, with the help of the mysterious Mr. Will, for the strong military strength of the United States, Ahmadinejad feels that he has a grasp of dealing with them. In that case, why do you still suppress your own nature? …,
With the tacit and implicit encouragement of the government, for a time, not only were there many more people demonstrating on the streets of Tehran, the capital of Iran, than before, but even the little children who dared to throw stones and garbage at Westerners on the streets were much larger...... It is said that the worst of all are the American companies in Iran, who have been repaired for free by the enthusiastic Iranian people with rotten eggs, rotten tomatoes, broken stones, rotten bricks and other building decoration materials.
Fortunately, no matter how proud Ahmadinejad is, he finally understands one thing, that is, although Iran now has the capital to confront the United States, it does not mean that the support Iran is getting now is not free, once Iran and the United States really fight, even Ahmadinejad does not know how much Iran has paid.
Mr. Will's unsparing support? Are you kidding? Do you think that guy Will is a great good man or an Messenger of Allah? Even the messengers of the great benevolent people and the Allah would not have helped Iran so free of charge...... Therefore, in the final analysis, the future of Iran lies with the Iranian people themselves.
So these days, although Ahmadinejad is very proud, but he did not overstimulate the Americans, while expressing his toughness, Ahmadinejad has always been careful to control the degree of Iran's bad relations with the Americans in this matter, but the question is, does anyone want to see this situation?
At this time, a piece of news suddenly upset the fragile balance that everyone was careful to maintain between the United States and Iran: for the first time, Iran publicly admitted that Iran had expanded its uranium enrichment program.
So far, Iran has only known about its 328 centrifuges, and Iran began announcing a plan to expand its uranium enrichment program months ago. Therefore, this recognition is undoubtedly of great significance. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech at a rally at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility today that Iran now has the capacity to produce uranium enrichment fuel on an industrial scale, but he also did not disclose the number of centrifuges that have been put into operation at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, but just this afternoon, at a press conference in Iran, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Larijani officially admitted today that Iran has begun to deliver uranium gas to 3,000 centrifuges.
There is no doubt that this is a dramatic expansion of Iran's nuclear program in the context of the current UN sanctions imposed on Iran.
Although Larijani did not elaborate on the number of centrifuges in Iran, this is the first time that Iranian officials have publicly acknowledged the number of centrifuges they use for nuclear separation, and at the same time, they are slapping the United Nations in the face.
As soon as this news came out, the whole world was shaken
On the afternoon of 24 July, the UN Security Council, which had been slapped in the face, adopted a new draft resolution on the Iranian nuclear issue in just half a day with the unanimous vote of all members of the UN Security Council.
The new resolution not only increases sanctions on Iran's nuclear and missile programs, but also emphasizes the continued pursuit of a negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Resolution 1747, adopted by the Security Council on the same day, invokes Article 41 of Chapter VII of the UN Charter and urges Iran to immediately implement the previous Resolution 1737; prohibit Iran's arms exports and call on the international community to exercise vigilance and restraint in Iran's imports of heavy weapons; continued to impose an asset freeze on individuals and entities involved in Iran's nuclear and missile programs and expanded the scope of sanctions; Calls on States and international financial institutions to refrain from committing grants, financial assistance and concessional loans to the Government of Iran.
The resolution calls on the IAEA to submit a report on Iran's implementation of the relevant resolutions within 60 days, reaffirms its commitment to a political and diplomatic negotiated solution, and confirms that the sanctions can be terminated on the condition that Iran complies with the relevant resolutions. In addition, at the insistence of countries such as South Africa, Indonesia and Qatar, the resolution expresses support for and strengthens the authority and role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and affirms that the resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue will contribute to global non-proliferation efforts and the goal of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.
The British Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mr Parry, read out a joint statement on behalf of the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France and Germany on the adoption of the resolution...... Note that this time, even the republics, which have always opposed the U.S. military operation in Iran, voted for the exhibition...... The statement said that the unanimous adoption of Resolution 1747 by the Security Council reflects the deep concern of the international community over Iran's nuclear program, and the six countries deplore Iran's failure to implement previous resolutions of the Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and urge Iran to immediately and fully implement the demands of the international community. …,
The statement said that the six countries support the proposal of "double suspension" put forward by IAEA Director General ElBaradei, support the previous "package" of the six countries to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue, and promise to seek a way to negotiate and reach a comprehensive solution with Iran on the basis of mutual respect.
Although this is a good remark, anyone who sees the voting results of the UN Security Council understands that because of the remarks of Iran and negotiator Larijani, the members of the UN Security Council, who feel that their faces are gloomy, are obviously extremely annoyed with Iran.
Indeed, Iran's move has indeed swollen the faces of various countries that are members of the UN Security Council, and no one thought that Iran would be arrogant for a while, and would secretly engage in such a move behind its own back.
If you are a member of the UN Security Council, it is fine, but for those madmen who believe in Islam in the Middle East, everyone really does not dare to let them have nuclear weapons, who knows what those fanatical madmen will do when they have weapons, even if it is for their own security, they will never allow those madmen in the Middle East to have nuclear weapons.
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"Too much deception" Ahmadinejad pounded the table angrily after hearing the United Nations Security Council adopt a new decision on sanctions against Iran at an unprecedented pace. Instead of thinking about Iran's own actions, he felt that the whole world was sorry for Iran, and even forgot his original intention of asking Ranijani to tell the number of centrifuges that Iran had in order to test the Americans.
"Mr. President, what are we going to do next?" Larijani, an expert on Iran and negotiators and one of Ahmadinejad's confidants, asked with some concern.
Before Ahmadinejad decided to do that, Larijani felt that it was inappropriate to do so, and persuaded Ahmadinejad not to do it, but in the end he was rejected by Ahmadinejad, and now it seems that it is indeed very inappropriate to do so.
"What should I do?" Ahmadinejad gritted his teeth, "There is a way"
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Now, in late February, at about nine o'clock in the evening, a half-moon is hanging high in the night sky, casting a cold moonlight over the vast Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea.
In the waters of the Persian Gulf near Saudi Arabia, these massive steel monsters are moored in the calm seas, and these steel monsters have been moored here for three years: the US Fifth Fleet Aircraft Carrier Battle Group and the Fourth Aircraft Carrier Battle Group temporarily deployed here to deal with Iraq.
Although the war between the United States and Iraq was a great defeat for the United States on the ground, for the US Navy, the defeat of the US Army had little to do with them.
And for this situation, the commanders on almost every warship took a tacit attitude.
Yes, according to the regulations, soldiers are not allowed to jump and jump on the warship, and the soldiers should respect their warships as if they were their fathers and mothers, but at this time, the soldiers need to relieve the psychological pressure caused by their long hours of work, and they can't think of any other way to ease the army's current frustration.
Yes, the U.S. Army was defeated, and although the U.S. Navy had little impact, the U.S. Navy's most powerful weapon, the Navy's claws: aircraft carrier-based aircraft, also had no way to patrol Iraq's airspace...... What was once a no-fly zone for Iraqis is now a no-fly zone over all of Iran for U.S. and allied military aircraft.
In such a situation, even if there are no casualties, the morale of the US Navy is still relatively low, and in such a situation, naturally no one will pay attention to the calm sea.
In fact, there is nothing noteworthy about the calm sea, there are two major US aircraft carrier battle groups moored here, not only two powerful nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, but also many cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and nuclear submarines that can fill up the entire Persian Gulf seabed, not to mention the US submarine monitoring system that spreads all over the ocean.
However, in time, this powerful submarine monitoring system did not find that today's seabed seems to be particularly unstable, because under the seabed, there is a huge shark school slowly swimming towards the US aircraft carrier battle group.
In the fleet, several warships turned on their hulls to actively detect sonar, and the sonar soldiers couldn't help but curse when they saw the reflected sound waves, "Damn sharks"
Yes, damn sharks, for the American Navy, even if those sharks are not a threat to them, it is not a happy thing to know that there is such a huge shark school around them.
The few sonars who were working did not notice at all that the sharks that seemed to swim randomly were more or less a few sharks roaming around each warship, depending on the size of the displacement of the US warship.
Seeing so many sharks, a "Ali. The sonar soldier on the Burke-class Aegis missile destroyer, who was on a listening mission, couldn't help but mutter, "Damn, why are there so many sharks?" ”
Yes, there are so many sharks that you can see several huge sharks near each warship, and these sharks are all gathered here, what are they trying to do? Don't these damn sharks know that this isn't a good place for them to have a party? ……,