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Therefore, Kerim, who has just been unanimously elected as the "emir" of the Supreme Leader of the United Arab Emirates, attaches great importance to the military industry and its necessary various basic industries, but the problem is that large-scale equipment cannot be produced by itself, and the Soviet Union and China, which are blockaded by the West, cannot provide it

In fact, Krim really doesn't want to rush to determine the camp in his heart, and now the Axis powers have gained a great advantage by using surprise attacks, but the Allies have greater war potential, and the two more heavyweight giants of the United States and the Soviet Union have not yet intervened, and it is difficult to determine who will win and who will lose in the two camps.

In particular, there is a conflict of interest between the two camps and the Arab League, not to mention that France has been "liberated" so many colonies, and Italy on the Axis side also has deep contradictions with the Arab League

So Kerim initially hoped to get industrialization support from the United States, which is still neutral, but there were already two lessons from the Soviet Union and China, and now the United States has completely come out of the economic crisis and does not need to rush to the hospital. How is it possible to make another mistake and prop up a country that may become a fierce rival of the future?

Moreover, the United States is still a resource exporter, and it is not very interested in the resources of North Africa, and there is even competition in the international market, and the only value of North Africa is only to become a market for American capitalists to dump goods, so not to mention heavy industry that may enhance military strength, even light industry and mining, the United States is not very willing to support, if it were not for Kerim throwing out the "market for jishu" plan, and the Arab League would not be able to afford American goods if it was too poor. The Americans are simply not going to provide any assistance to the Arab coalition with jishu and equipment. But even so. In the eyes of Kerim, the "aid" provided by the Americans is only a drop in the bucket, and neither the quantity, quality, nor the type of aid meets his expectations.

As for purchases, the U.S. economy is now back to prosperity, and the government's trade ban has been more enforced. Anyway, it can sell well in China. Even if you can't export, you won't lose much. Therefore, it is much more difficult for the Arab League to pay for the equipment it needs than it was for the Soviet Union and China in those years, and the cost is ten times higher than that of the Soviet Union and China, which took advantage of the economic crisis in the United States. Hiring Jishu talent from the U.S. faces similar difficulties. Even North Africa, which became rich because of oil in later generations, may not be able to afford it, not to mention that oil has only begun to be explored, and the only export commodities are apatite and olive oil.

In this way, Kerim can only join one of the two camps to obtain the various kinds of support that the Arab League urgently needs now, and for both sides of the war, just the Arab League's million-strong standing army is already a big bargaining chip, not to mention the geographical location of North Africa is also very important.

In fact, at first, Kerim was more inclined to join the Allied Powers, because the Arab League was long and narrow, and the elite area was concentrated in the coastal areas, so he was naturally afraid of the threat from the sea, as long as he did not have no choice, Kerim really did not want to be an enemy of the British navy, so he never launched an attack on Egypt and other British colonies, of course, because although the Egyptians were also Arabs, their ancestry was very different from the Berber line in the west (Note 1). But the main reason is that Kerim has a deep fear of the British Royal Navy

With the French surrender, Kerim was almost always required to negotiate with the British government, which gave him confidence in the success of his accession, but he underestimated the arrogance that the British had cultivated over the years, and he was dissatisfied with the British people's excessive desire for control and defensiveness.

Before any substantial benefits were given to the UAE, the British government asked Kerim to hand over the hundreds of thousands of French prisoners of war he had captured to De Gaulle's "Free France" government as a sign of sincerity, which was unacceptable to Kerim in any case, and if he really sent those hundreds of thousands of French over and strengthened the ground forces of the allies, the value of the Arab League to the allies would not be as great as it is now, and he Kerim would not be so stupid

In addition, the British, who were worried that the wave of national liberation would spread to their own territory, also demanded that Kerim stop supporting the anti-colonial struggle in sub-Saharan Africa, but Kerim only agreed that he would not send people into the British colonies, but still insisted on helping the people of the French colonies in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence and liberation

Kerim's hope that the British would assist the Arab League in building high-end military industries such as aircraft, tanks, and ships was even more ridiculed by the British representatives, who ridiculed the Arab League for not being able to do its own thing. Churchill, who feared that the Arab League would not be able to build even a large steel mill after the war, agreed to help the Arab League build mines and oil fields, and regarded it as a colony-like resource supplier

If you can't get along with the Allies, you can only move closer to the Axis powers, but the Arab League wants to throw itself into the Axis camp, but there are obvious obstacles, unlike the "Free France" that has no right to speak, that is, the French government-in-exile, Italy, which has annihilated more than 500,000 troops by the Krim and has also occupied a large colony of Libya, is the second in the Axis camp (Japan has not yet entered the axis at this time)!

Note 1: The Arabs are a cultural people like the Han Chinese, but the blood differences within them are much greater than those of the Han Chinese, and there are three main lineages, the Berber people of central and western North Africa, the Egyptian people of Egyptian and North Sudan, and the "orthodox" Arab people of the Middle East.

PS: The so-called "orthodoxy" is nothing more than a relative one, after thousands of years of Turkicization (Turkicization of Arab blood, Islamization of Turkic culture, who conquered whom?). They are no longer the Arabs of the Arab Empire (to be continued......