Although theoretically speaking, the price of commodities is determined by the relationship between supply and demand, when the supply exceeds demand, the price will fall, and vice versa, the price will rise, this basic law of value, any person in modern society knows. However, knowing is knowing, and when it comes to action, it is another matter.

If only one country is an oil-producing country, it can reduce production, to raise prices, and get more benefits, but there are so many oil-producing countries in the world, and it is normal to dismantle each other, in order to coordinate oil production, oil-producing countries in the Middle East established the OPEC organization, and then, there are African and Latin American countries to join, the main task of this organization is to allocate oil quotas for each oil-producing country, and measure how much oil the world needs, then how much oil is produced, but, in practice, There are always OPEC members who secretly produce more oil to increase their own profits.

Such selfish behavior seriously damages the interests of the entire oil-producing countries! Now Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is angry, and the consequences are serious!

The UAE thought that Iraq was accusing them, and they were terrified for a while, only to learn later that it was not coming for them! Iraq refers to something else!

Iraq, at this time the country's economy is quite difficult, the Iran-Iraq war has caused the entire country's economy to suffer a great blow, many oil fields have been destroyed, oil revenues have plummeted, burdened with heavy foreign debts, at the same time, the war has made Iraq's war machine unprecedentedly strong, the army has exceeded one million, military spending has also made Iraq unable to make ends meet.

For Iraq, this is a rather difficult problem to solve. Iraq, which has always been short of labor, is now even beginning to lose its job, and Egyptian laborers are often killed. At the same time, the country's inflation rate has reached 40 percent a year, and the black market dinar is worth only one-twelfth of the official price.

Saddam Hussein had his own solution. He has the most powerful military power in the Gulf countries! They have just experienced a decade of Iran-Iraq war, and now they are a sharp sword!

There is a solution, and to solve the current problem once and for all, we have to start with Kuwait in the south!

Kuwait and Iraq have a long history of feuds, starting with the former Arab Empire. In the history books of China, the Arab Empire is called the Great Food. In Western Europe, it was customary to refer to it as the Saracen Empire. At that time, both Kuwait and Iraq were part of the Arab Empire.

Until 1710, the Sabah family, a member of the Anaiza tribe living in the Arabian Peninsula, settled in Kuwait after a long nomadic migration, and established the Emirate of Kuwait in 1756. Two of the Sabah family, Jaber and Salim, alternately hold power.

After that, the powerful Ottoman Empire emerged, and in 1871, Kuwait became an independent county in the Ottoman Empire's Iraqi Basra Province. After the Empire began its global colonization in 1923. Britain signed the Treaty of Lausanne with the Ottoman Empire, establishing the Kingdom of Iraq and the Emir of Kuwait respectively. Unfortunately, colonial rule was unjust, and the people in the colonies were revolting. By the fifties, Kuwait had achieved de facto independence by establishing a Supreme Council headed by Abdullah Bach and taking over the administration of justice and currency from the British.

And almost at the same time, the Iraqi revolution succeeded. The Faisal dynasty was overthrown and Iraq became a republic.

And for the Iraqi authorities. Kuwait has always been considered part of their territory, for example, in the 1913 agreement between Britain and the Ottoman Empire, which stipulated that Kuwait was an independent county within the Ottoman Empire. And now, although the Ottoman Empire no longer exists, Iraq is its successor state and should also inherit Kuwait, which is a county of Iraq!

From the map. It can be seen that Kuwait's neighbors are only Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and the ambitious rulers of Iraq have always wanted to bring Kuwait under their territory!

Historically, there have been many instances of the two countries fighting each other, and later. It was not until Iraq's Baath Socialist Party came to power and was in power that Kuwait was recognized and diplomatic relations were established.

During the long Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait, like other Arab countries, supported Iraq's just war and provided a large number of loans, which Iraq owed to Kuwait tens of billions of dollars.

Under various factors, a bold idea was quickly formed in Saddam's mind, to send troops to Kuwait and turn Kuwait back into a province of Iraq! In this way, the tens of billions of dollars of debt can be written off, and at the same time, Kuwait's wealth can be owned, and Iraq will become the most powerful country in the Middle East!

So, at Saddam's decision, Iraqi diplomats first went on the offensive.

The next day, Iraq's deputy prime minister, Sadum Hamadi, began to lobby, he first went to Saudi Arabia, hoping that Saudi Arabia can preside over the overall situation of the Gulf, let countries reduce production, in order to raise oil prices, however, the Saudi king only agreed to discuss it at the next OPEC meeting, and did not commit to it immediately, Hamadi who left Saudi Arabia was very depressed, and when he arrived in Kuwait, he was even more embarrassed.

"Our economy in Iraq is very difficult." "In the Iran-Iraq war, we in Iraq paid a heavy price to help our entire Arab world resist Khomeini's export revolution, and now we hope that Kuwait will donate us $10 billion to solve our current difficulties," Hamadi said. ”

Hamadi said it very bluntly, it wants 10 billion dollars! This is President Saddam's confession, but in fact it is a test for Kuwait; if Kuwait can donate the $10 billion, then it will not draw up a battle plan, and if Kuwait does not agree, then it can take the next step.

However, this temptation was obviously useless, and when Hamadi said this, the emir of Kuwait Jaber immediately shouted: "This is crazy, we don't have so much money at all!" We can provide your country with $500 million in three years. But first, we need to draw our borders. ”

So far, the border between Kuwait and Iraq has not been clearly demarcated, and Jaber hopes to resolve these matters.

"Then you can't agree to our request?" Hamadi asked.

"Yes." Jaber replied crisply.

"May Allah Almighty prove that we have given warnings." Leaving these words, Hamadi walked away.

What does that mean? Is it a threat? Jaber gritted his teeth and looked at the back of the other party leaving, his face was red and white.

Iraq fought with Iran for 10 years and resisted Iran's export revolution, but more often than not, Iraq itself wanted to occupy the western part of Iran. Moreover, in the Iran-Iraq war, the Chinese side stood firmly behind Iraq, and now, Iraq's approach is simply like an insatiable hungry wolf!

It is absolutely impossible to agree to such an act of Iraq, this time it gave the other party 10 billion, then next time it will ask for 20 billion, 30 billion! Jaber made up his mind.

Just after Hamadi returned to Iraq, Iraqi Foreign Minister Aziz issued a sternly worded statement.

"For nearly a decade, Kuwait has been dumping large quantities of oil on the world market, secretly increasing production in disregard of OPEC production quotas, and moreover, Kuwait has secretly exploited the Rumaia oil fields in our country, and even in the first year of our just Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait has openly repaired military installations to our territory, which is a military aggression against us! Because of Kuwait's malicious exploitation, which has caused overproduction of oil and the fall of oil prices, our entire Arab countries have lost a total of 500 billion US dollars, and we, Iraq, have also lost 89 billion US dollars! ”

The Rumaia oil field is in Kuwait, but unexplored data suggests that part of this oil layer is in Iraq, after all, oil in the ground is as mobile as water.

As for the previous overcapacity, it was not only Kuwait's responsibility, but mainly because the United States decided to attack the Soviet Union economically in order to deal with the Soviet Union, so that the Soviet Union would completely lose money in exporting oil, so the price of oil fell sharply in the 80s, until the Soviets' selling costs were not comparable to the cost of exploitation, which hit the Soviet Union hard.

And now, Iraq has put these responsibilities on Kuwait.

"This is ironclad proof of imperialism and Zionism against Iraq, against the Arab nation! The collapse of oil prices has seriously damaged the interests of our oil-producing countries! This is a serious threat to us! At a time when the Arab nation is in crisis, what kind of policies and goals is the Kuwaiti Government working towards? What is the purpose of Kuwait? Every sentence is so powerful: "Kuwait has usurped our territory and oil fields, plundered our national wealth, Kuwait is the spokesman of imperialism and Zionism, deliberately suffocating our economy, which is an invasion that is the same as military aggression!" We, Iraq, want to protect our country, defend our nation, and protect the security of the Gulf and the entire Arab world! ”

Iraq was angry, and the consequences were severe, and just after the harshly worded statement of Iraqi Foreign Minister Haziz, Iraq's huge armoured forces, dispatched from the Basra Military Region in the south, billowed towards the Kuwaiti border.

They did not hide their whereabouts, those T-62 tanks, 59 tanks, the powerful Iraqi army forged during the Iran-Iraq war, are moving again! (To be continued.) )