readx; To say that today's U.S. military is inferior to the British army a hundred years ago refers to the fighting quality of soldiers in the traditional form of warfare in Afghanistan, a special battlefield, and that today's U.S. military is not as good as the British army a hundred years ago, or that the balance of forces between the two sides is different. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A hundred years ago, the British army was only fighting Afghan fighters, but today, once the United States invades Afghanistan, Muslim fighters in the Muslim world who want to fight the Yankees will come in droves.

High-tech warfare is useless, but in Afghanistan, there are few targets worth bombing, and if the United States wants to truly conquer Afghanistan, it will have to conduct a traditional ground war, and a fairly primitive ground operation.

Then, in this way, the hard-working and fearless warriors will have a place to use, which is enough to offset the disadvantage in weapons.

If the United States invades Afghanistan at the beginning, it will sweep thousands of troops like a sweep, but then the war will inevitably drag on for a long time, and in this way, the blood of the United States will have to flow until the sea is dry.

There is nothing more expensive than war, not to mention that Afghanistan is a landlocked country and surrounded by countries hostile to the United States, so the United States is a huge problem just to transport foster care, and it has to consume astronomical wealth.

This was the first benefit of the US invasion of Afghanistan.

The second benefit is the deepening of the contradictions between the United States and Russia.

The third advantage is that the hatred between the United States and the West against Muslims will inevitably intensify dramatically, and Muslims will inevitably fight to the death with the Americans, and Afghanistan will be a training base established by the United States to train Muslim fighters.

In this way, China can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and this sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight is not an ordinary sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

In essence, there are three major forces in the world today, one is the Confucian cultural circle represented by China, the other is the Islamic cultural circle, and the last is naturally the Christian cultural circle represented by the United States.

Now, the two cultural circles are fighting to the death, and China can not only take advantage of the opportunity to develop, but also reap the benefits of both ends, which is naturally extremely beneficial to China's development.

At this moment, Jiang Wancheng and Wu Chengming couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in their hearts, they were afraid that their dreams would be disappointed, and the United States would not invade Afghanistan in the end.

Wu Chengming asked: "How likely is it that the United States will invade Afghanistan?" ”

Liu Yuting said: "We have repeatedly analyzed that the US invasion of Afghanistan is unlikely to be unexpected. ”

Frowning slightly, Jiang Wancheng said: "The United States invaded Afghanistan under the pretext that the 911 planners were hiding in Afghanistan, but if the Taliban agreed to hand over people, would there be any accidents?" ”

Liu Yuting said: "It is possible for the Taliban to hand over people, but whether the United States fights Afghanistan or not has nothing to do with whether the Taliban hand over people." ”

After Liu Yuting finished speaking, Jiang Wancheng couldn't help but smile.

Wu Chengming asked: "How should we talk about joining the WTO?" ”

Liu Yuting said: "The sooner you join, the better, the conditions can be appropriately relaxed, and it doesn't matter in this regard." ”

Liu Yuting means that Han Yuan is completely let go in this regard, and the relevant units of the political axe will come forward, and it will be enough to talk normally.

Nodding, Wu Chengming then asked, "Will some European countries set up obstacles?" ”

Joining the WTO is something that needs to be discussed with every country, and although the United States will help China settle some countries because it is in a hurry, it is not possible to settle all of them.

Some European countries, such as France, have a great conflict of interest with China in Africa, and they are bound to put obstacles in the way of negotiations.

Liu Yuting said: "You can make it clear to them, and everyone will try to take what they need." ”

The infrastructure construction in Europe and the United States has been completed, so China and Europe basically do not compete for resources such as iron ore and copper ore, and Europe and China are mainly competing for oil and gas and some rare mineral deposits, such as niobium-tantalum in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Niobium-tantalite is a mineral produced by the mixture of niobium and tantalite, and the tantalum metal extracted from niobium-tantalite has a high thermal resistance value, which is the main raw material for the manufacture of key components of mobile phone chips and computer chip circuits.

With the explosion of demand for mobile phones and computers in the international market, niobium-tantalum ore has become a sought-after resource, selling for more than $100 per pound of tantalum and trading at $10 billion in 200.

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The bright sun is shining, and the luxury is to the extreme, and the villa is filled with the strong aroma of barbecue.

On the satin meadows, the ladies are bejeweled, noble and elegant; The men were gentlemen, well-dressed and courteous.

Less than a week had passed since 911, and the American people were still immersed in grief and fear, but these elegant ladies and gentlemen were all red-faced, radiant, and festive.

These ladies and gentlemen are the true elite of the United States, either the big bankers of Wall Street, the big bosses of arms and oil companies, or members of Congress.

Today's celebration reception is to celebrate that the matter of sending troops to Afghanistan has finally been decided.

As soon as the cannon sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold, which is the unchanging truth through the ages, and it is the truth of the truth.

Normally, the arms sales are only tens of billions a year at most, but as soon as the war starts, the arms business has to turn its head upwards.

Among the big bosses who are ecstatic in these poems, the most joyful are the bosses of the Unocal oil company.

In 1996, Unocal signed a contract with Turkmenistan to transport Turkmenistan's oil and gas through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India by laying oil and gas pipelines.

By building this pipeline, the United States could both benefit from India's economic take-off and at the same time open and close the floodgates, subjecting India to U.S. global foreign policy.

This matter is mainly stuck in Afghanistan, and has not been negotiated with the Taliban, but now it is okay, this fight, Unocal not only got things done, but also saved great costs.

The world is as black as a crow, whether it is the benefit of boiling or the corruption of [***], if you want to make money, you must first get something.

Now, everyone has worked together to finally make a big deal.

Everyone was beaming and ready to share the big cake.

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China's WTO accession talks have been going on for a long time, and purely as far as the negotiations are concerned, there are only a few dozen difficult points, and it is political factors that are really blocking the negotiations.

Now, since China has agreed to some of the U.S. demands on counterterrorism, political considerations have been eliminated and negotiations can proceed.

This time, both sides have absolute sincerity, and China has made significant concessions, even those that the United States has not thought about, so one difficulty after another has been quickly overcome.

At the same time as intensive negotiations with the United States, on 29 September, Premier Wu Chengming's special plane landed at the airport in Paris, France.

Now the parties have reached an agreement on the issue of passenger planes, which can land in their respective countries.

After all, a stalemate will not solve the problem, and as exchanges with China have to become more frequent, the losses will become more and more great, and the additional fuel and time costs alone will become more and more unaffordable for airlines.

The preliminary preparations have almost been completed, and Premier Wu is the last to make a decision.

The French gave the warmest welcome to the Chinese.

Three days later, when Premier Wu left France, the French were even more enthusiastic.

The French are happy, the Chinese are even happier, China has lost to the West only a few pieces of paper, while China has won far-reaching influence in Africa.

The Europeans have not yet realized the significance of China's success in the DRC, because in their eyes China is not strong enough, but in reality, when China is willing to show its strength, everything is irreversible.

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On October 1, US President George W. Bush gave the Taliban an an ultimatum:

a) Hand over the top members of Al Qaeda to the United States.

b) Release all imprisoned aliens.

3) Protection of foreign journalists, diplomats and support personnel in Afghanistan.

4) Have U.S. personnel inspect all the training camps and confirm that they are all closed.

Obviously, this ultimatum shows that the United States has no sincerity to solve the problem at all, because a regime like the Taliban, whose spiritual beliefs are Islamic fundamentalism, are unlikely to agree to these conditions.

In this case, even if the Taliban top brass agrees to avoid a US attack, it is useless, they do not dare, because once they do, the Taliban will immediately fall apart.

Sure enough, the Taliban refused to talk to the United States, saying that talking to non-Muslim leaders was an insult to them, but they also asked the United States through their embassy in Pakistan to provide evidence for them to sue bin Laden in the Islamic courts.

Later, they offered to transfer bin Laden to neutral countries, but Bush Jr. rejected these Taliban proposals.

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Seeing the ultimatum of the United States and the reaction of the Taliban, the Big Nine were all relieved, and based on the information from all sides, it can now be concluded that the United States just wants to fight, and it is by no means a bluff.

On 7 October, the US-British coalition invaded Afghanistan, and the Afghan War broke out.

After the US-British coalition invaded Afghanistan, as most people expected, it really swept through thousands of troops.

On the evening of November 12, as Taliban forces fled the city of Kabul under the cover of night, the Big Nine were completely relieved.

The Big Nine's assessment of the American political axe on this war is one word: stupid.

This shows that the United States has not thought about the ongoing war in Afghanistan at all, and it is very likely that it will fight just as it wants.

Most of the Big Nine have no military background, but even so, they all know that this battle should not be fought like this.

In a place like Afghanistan, it is useless to occupy as many places as possible, and the annihilation of the enemy's vital forces is fundamental, so the United States and Britain should not directly intervene, but should support the Northern Alliance to fight against the Taliban, and let the two sides always fight evenly matched.

If the Northern Alliance has the upper hand, it is necessary to drag the Northern Alliance back and pull down their advantage.

Only in this way will the Taliban's vital forces be depleted little by little.

As it is now, the Taliban were defeated all at once, in fact, the Taliban were not defeated at all, at most, the Taliban themselves collapsed, and they were not fought at all.

In this way, no matter what the Taliban fall into, in essence, the Taliban's power has been preserved, and when the time comes, the Taliban can make a comeback at any time.

Jiang Wancheng and Wu Chengming were completely convinced of Han Yuan, and on that day, Liu Yuting's evaluation of this American political axe was one of the stupidest political axes in history.

This "ever-timed" does not refer only to the United States, but to the whole world, so you can imagine how low this evaluation is.

A glimpse of the whole leopard, a person can do something wrong and reflect at any time, but a team, especially if the members of this team are at least fifty or sixty years old, it is too difficult, almost impossible.

I wonder if the Americans can take some inspiration from their actions in the DRC, and then, no matter what difficulties there are, they must do their best to improve the livelihood of the people in Afghanistan.

If the United States fails to do a good job in the livelihood of the people in Afghanistan in the future, there is no doubt that Afghanistan will become a 100 percent graveyard of empires without their intervention at all.

Can Americans do a good job?

In the eyes of Jiang Wancheng and Wu Chengming, the probability is zero.

This is not only because of the environment in Afghanistan and the existence of the Taliban, but also because the US political axe does not have such determination, and even because they have not thought about this problem at all.

Well, you can sleep peacefully.

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One sigh, two sighs, three sighs......

Lin Manshan sighed.

As one of the Big Nine, there are very few things in this world that can make Lin Manshan envious to this point.

Lin Manshan is envious of the United States, that is too envious.

Look at the people!

There's no comparison!

U.S.-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a consultant hired by Unocal for oil and gas pipeline projects in Afghanistan.

There is also an adviser, Karizadeh, who is a leading figure in the American neocons, an Afghan-American, the main thinker of Bush Jr.'s Central Asian and Middle East affairs, and now the US ambassador to Afghanistan, that is, the US emperor in Afghanistan.

Officials are businessmen, businessmen are officials, officials and businessmen are one, regardless of each other, this is the most ideal social system!

However, unlike those conscientious public intellectuals or something, Lin Manshan is also dissatisfied with the United States, the most ideal social system for mankind, that is, sometimes he seems too stupid.

Lin Manshan likes money, but at least there is a sense of proportion, he thinks that those people in the United States are a little earlier and more ruthless.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the unscrupulous corruption of the Afghan political axe is the business of the Afghan political axe itself, and has nothing to do with the honest and honest American political axe, but in Lin Manshan's view, this is pure nonsense.

It is precisely because of the unscrupulous corruption of the Afghan political axe that those people in the United States can get money and get more money.

Therefore, the unscrupulous corruption of the Afghan political axe, although the Afghan political axe has great responsibility, but without the deliberate connivance of some people in the United States, or even the covert indulgence, it is unlikely that the corruption of the Afghan political axe will be so unscrupulous.

In Lin Manshan's view, the Americans are too negligent and think that everything is fine, but in reality, the opportunity for the United States to control Afghanistan is rapidly eroding, and once it reaches a certain tipping point, no matter how determined the United States is, it will be powerless.

There is no perfect thing in the world, and the lesser of two evils is chosen, and if Lin Manshan is given the choice, he will still choose the United States without hesitation and choose to push China in the direction of the United States.

Only the United States is a paradise for people like him.

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China officially joined the international World Trade Organization (WTO) on 27 December 2001 and is currently operating well.

This is an internal affair, a solid foundation laid for more than 60 years, and the next big development is not unexpected, but it is these idiots in the United States who really surprised the Big Nine and greatly surprised them.

These idiots, sitting on the active volcano of Afghanistan and not knowing it, are again extending their claws to Iraq.

Just yesterday, with regard to Iraq, the United States Congress unanimously adopted an agreement that unequivocally approved the president's right to use the military when he deems it necessary and appropriate.

The United States has been doing Iraqi work for a long time, and during this period, Jiang Wancheng and Wu Chengming were very worried in their hearts, and the more they looked forward to the United States taking action against Iraq, the more worried they were that their dreams would come to naught.

Well, now that the US Congress has approved President George W. Bush's discretion, the US invasion of Iraq is almost a foregone conclusion, and there is no suspense.

Jiang Wancheng and Wu Chengming both felt incredible, isn't there a person in the US Congress who understands?

Money, it's all money, and the big bosses and parliamentarians are making too much money in Afghanistan.

It's so good to make money in Afghanistan, so what's the big tank in Iraq...... Aha, isn't that really what it is?

Regarding the political IQ of Americans, Jiang Wancheng and Wu Chengming sometimes have to shake their heads and sigh: Young, still too young.

The pony is too narrow to walk on the road, and the roc spreads its wings and hates the sky.

As a country, the United States is the pony that thinks the road is narrow.

The American abacus is too beautiful and too frivolous.

Take control of Iraq, and then deal with Iran, and that means that the United States controls the world's accelerator.

controlled the accelerator of the world, not to mention others, at least Europe has to be honestly a little brother, and whatever the big brother says, that's what it is.

Once Europe is completely obedient, Russia will be completely deflated, and many other countries will have to bow down to the United States.

It's just that the United States doesn't want to think about it, the more beautiful it is to itself, the more evil it is to others.

The United States treats everyone else as a dead person, and this means that if others are not dead, then the United States itself is a dead man.

Sometimes, Jiang Wancheng and Wu Chengming really think it's incredible, it's understandable that one person is stupid, but everyone is so stupid, there is only one explanation.

That's fate!

(To be continued)