The events that forced the United States to open a new battlefield came from the inexplicable announcement of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's entry into the SCO camp. At the beginning of the war, several countries in North Africa, especially several oil-producing countries, took this opportunity to make a fortune. However, Egypt then joined the SCO side and helped the SCO control the Suez Canal, thus greatly weakening the strategic influence of the US military.

Gaddafi's "surrender" is quite a strange thing for Qi Yiming. Libyan oil sells well, but at this juncture, it does not sell to Western oil, but uses its own not very rich belongings to pull up the banner of the SCO and ask to join the SCO.

What makes the SCO Council even more laughable is that Gaddafi's defection did not greet them before, and the so-called joining of the SCO was only his own words, and did not get the approval of the SCO Council. Not only that, Qaddafi also said in his speech that the North African countries of Algeria, ****** and Morocco should no longer continue to remain neutral for the sake of economic interests, and that the evil international order established by the West has reached the time of collapse, and everyone should enthusiastically join the side of justice and create a more fair and just international order. Countries such as Algeria should start by stopping oil sales to Western countries.

Although several North African countries have not expressed their position, but this time it is a sore foot to the United States and other NATO allies, their energy sources are already quite limited, if Libya is allowed to make such a fuss, maybe the European allied tanks will really not have diesel burning, and the US planes may not be able to fly to China at all.

At present, the international oil price has become two parts: one is the oil price that still bears the name of international oil price, which is actually the oil price of Western countries and other neutral countries, and the other is the internal price of the SCO member states. The former has already soared above $120 a barrel, while the latter is only $180 a barrel, equivalent to only 45 US dollars. Naturally, because of the war, the exchange rate between the new yuan and the US dollar has been temporarily stopped, and China has continued to sell its own US bonds in a meat-cutting manner since the start of the war, and the US dollar has plummeted in its peg to oil, so the depreciation of the US dollar is very strict. However, this depreciation is not very reflective, because the official exchange rate between the new renminbi and the US dollar no longer exists.

On the one hand, NATO has almost run out of its own hair because of oil, and on the other hand, the SCO has several major oil and gas fields in Siberia, the South China Sea, and the Middle East, and China has shale gas extraction technology and the world's largest shale gas field in Sichuan. Not to mention, China is already promoting a fusion electrification society across the board, and its dependence on oil is far less than that of the United States and Europe. Even, China is already developing electrically powered main battle tanks, and even intends to equip drones with batteries.

Libya's defection to the SCO, whether the SCO is joined or not, has already exacerbated the embarrassing energy security environment for the United States and NATO, so much so that George W. Bush did not hesitate to propose a punitive war against Gaddafi to ensure that North African oil can still be delivered to Europe and the United States.

France is very supportive of the United States on this issue, and even the French Foreign Legion is ready to enter Libya with the Italian and Spanish armies, plus the expeditionary force of the United States Marine Corps, to beat Gaddafi into a sieve and obtain Libyan oil.

Rumsfeld also believed: "The occupation of Libya will not only discourage those countries that are ready to join us in the opposite direction, but also protect our important source of oil, and it will also be a kind of surveillance and control for Algeria and other countries." More importantly, we will gain a window of threat to Egypt, and if the timing and forces are right, we can march into Egypt, and at the same time get Egyptian oil, but also control the Suez Canal, an important shipping lane. The window of the Middle East has opened for us again, and the window of the Indian Ocean has opened for us again. ”

It is in this situation that NATO has insisted on opening up the North African theater despite the fact that the situation in the European theater has become more and more serious, and the two sides have invested more and more troops. In the absence of external interference, NATO carried out a simple bombing of Libya, and the French Foreign Legion and the US Marine Corps successfully landed in Tripoli and captured the famous Libyan city.

On the one hand, Gaddafi called on his troops to resist the invaders, and on the other hand, he brazenly asked for support from the SCO Council as an "SCO ally". In line with the concept that if NATO is unhappy, the SCO will be happy, the SCO Council still pinched its nose and recognized Gaddafi's surrender, and organized troops from Egypt and Sudan to cooperate with a Chinese Red Alert fast reaction force that arrived urgently to enter Libya and assist Gaddafi in counterattacking NATO's allies.

Compared with the big scene in the European and Pacific theaters, the intensity of the North African battlefield is relatively low, and China only sends one fighter division to cooperate with the air force of Saudi Arabia and Egypt to counter the air force of the allies of the United States, France, Italy and Spain. In the contest of ground forces, the total strength of the four NATO countries does not exceed 100,000, while the army forces of Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and China are only about 120,000.

The wars fought in North Africa also had the highest mechanization range, with both NATO and the SCO sending the heaviest troops, and the flat terrain of the desert also facilitated the operation of these fighters. In order to effectively counter China's powerful Type 99, the U.S. military specially provided the latest model of the M1A3 main battle tank for the NATO allies. In fact, there is still a certain gap between this type of main battle tank and the 99A6 and 99A7 models in various performances, but this gap is not so big, and there are beginning to be mutual victories and defeats in the war. In particular, the VT-1 tank equipped by the SCO coalition is still worse than the M1A3, and the VT-4 can effectively contend with it, so in armored combat, there was no one-sided situation expected by the Chinese PLA, but a more anxious battle situation.

On the Libyan battlefield, the SCO and NATO repeatedly fought over a number of cities and strongholds, and both sides dispatched relatively large armored troops at the same time, and also had a large number of land aviation to cover them; after NATO took control of some cities along the northwest coast of Libya, the operation of going deep into Libya to seize oil-producing areas was blocked by the SCO coalition forces. The two sides fought many battles around several large oil fields, and each side won and lost, and both suffered certain losses.

Faced with this situation, NATO intends to continue to increase its troops, because they have not seen the collapse of their own side in the Indian or South African battlefields, and the Allies are fighting fairly well, but at this time another event hinders their efforts to increase troops in Libya.