In September '52, the vanguard of the US army landed north of Oman, while the US aircraft carrier battle group also arrived in the Gulf of Oman and assembled outside the Strait of Hormuz.

As Lin Youde expected, the US military did not rashly intrude into the air control circle of the Republic of China Air Force in the Strait of Hormuz before acquiring an air base and deploying air force units.

But their blockade of the strait cut off the Republic's access to oil exports. Subsequently, the United States issued an ultimatum to the Republic that as long as the Republic's troops withdrew from the surrounding area of Abu Dhabi and retreated all the way to the Qatar Peninsula, the US military would not intervene.

The ambassador of the republic immediately consulted Lin Youde if he could consider accepting the Americans' conditions, after all, this condition would still allow the republic to occupy all the large oil fields that had been explored so far and keep its current vested interests. Lin Youde replied: If this battle is not large, the republic will not be able to gain a foothold in the Gulf, and if this battle is won, it will be possible to turn the Persian Gulf into an inland lake of the republic -- of course, this is an exaggeration, and it is a bit too much to openly move Iran, a sovereign state.

But now these terra nullius on the southern shores of the Persian Gulf are no problem to snatch them up before the United Nations resolves them.

Compared to the secularized Iran, Lin Youde does not want the future fundamentalists to get oil, and in Lin Youde's plan, the secularized Turkey and Iran still have a good future, and the stubborn fundamentalism will only breed terrorism.

Therefore, in Lin Youde's view, this battle must be fought, and the reason why there is so much trouble in the future is because the oil is in the hands of the wrong people, which are retro elements who still maintain the "real feudal system" in the 21st century and play aristocratic republic. Even in Saudi Arabia, poverty persists in the twenty-first century, and in fact, 20 percent of the country's population lives below the poverty line - a figure estimated by the World Bank's standards, which are skewed from country to country because of the different levels of prices.

For example, in China, according to the World Bank, there are 200 million poor people in China, but in fact, because the price level of these poor people is very low, a considerable number of them do not live in poverty. In 2005, according to World Bank standards, per capita daily income was less than 1. 25 US dollars is the poor, according to the exchange rate between the US dollar and the renminbi at that time, about 300 per month is the poor, but in fact, in the rural areas of northwest China, 300 yuan can make a family eat for a month, because the price is low.

In fact, before Lin Youde crossed over, in order to pick up girls in college, he once went to poverty alleviation in the summer vacation, and went to the countryside of Qingyuan, Guangdong Province - in fact, it is on the edge of Guangzhou. In that rural area, Lin Youde was surprised to find that a meal was only a few yuan, and many farmers grew vegetables and chickens by themselves. Even if you go to a restaurant in the village, it will cost sixty or seventy yuan for four or five people to eat a meal, and the most expensive consumption is beer.

Therefore, the poverty line set by the Chinese government in 2009 is 1,196 yuan per year, which is very different from the World Bank's standard.

Of course, the World Bank's standard is the so-called standard after purchasing power parity, but the purchasing power that the World Bank relies on is based on China's average jù, in other words, the prices in the developed eastern regions are also taken into account, so this is obviously inaccurate.

However, the Chinese government is also happy to use the World Bank standards to cry poverty, Li Zhongtang said in a grand manner that China still has more than 200 million people in the poverty line, we are a developing country, you can't say that we are a developed country, this is not good, we are a developing country, so we are not a threat at all, really, we are harmless to humans and animals.

And in Saudi Arabia, because Saudi Arabia has a large number of petrodollars, the overall price level is very high, especially because Saudi Arabia's own food production is very small, so the price of food in Saudi Arabia is quite high, so although according to the standards of the World Bank, 20 percent of the people in Saudi Arabia live in poverty, but in fact, the number of people living in difficulty should be more than this number. But the Saudi government has been covering up poverty, arresting three Saudis in 2011 who made videos exposing poverty in Saudi Arabia and ordering them to delete their videos. Although the three men were released after only two weeks of detention, many believe that this was because Saudi Arabia feared that the harsh sentences of the three men would reinforce the world's confidence that the poverty depicted in the video was widespread.

Of course, some Chinese media have described Saudi Arabia as a paradise country with free medical care, free education, and tax exemption, but in reality this is not the case at all. While it is true that the Saudi government has invested in providing residents with free health care, free education, and even free funerals, Saudi elites continue to exploit the country's roughly 16 million ordinary producers.

The income of Saudis seems to be very high, but in fact, according to the research of Saudi scholars, if the income in Saudi Arabia is less than 530 US dollars per month, even if it is poor, life will be problematic. And at least five million Saudis live below the poverty line.

Moreover, pervasive corruption has also exacerbated the problem of poverty.

The hereditary system, coupled with the fact that the royal family has real power, is bound to produce corruption, which cannot be avoided. So in fact, before Lin Youde crossed, even the Saudi government realized that the "Arab Spring" would definitely happen if it continued like this, so it began to implement various policies to appease the middle class in the country. But some Chinese media outlets are still boasting about Saudi Arabia, a paradise on earth, and there are eye-catching news on social media that a poor man in Saudi Arabia has caused onlookers, as if Saudi Arabia is just such a poor person - in fact, there are five million such poor people in Saudi Arabia.

The reason why there has not been a revolution in Saudi Arabia is purely because they have oil. Oil masks too many problems, and oil gives life to too many things that should be eliminated.

Lin Youde is now going to get rid of this and the life-sustaining pill from those backward guys, without oil, Saudi Arabia will end up like Haiti, Yemen and other countries.

Then those hereditary regimes will fall apart.

Of course, Lin Youde does not intend to excuse his actions, and he does steal the oil from the Arabs, and rob a significant number of them of their future prosperity - even if such behavior can eradicate a backward system.

The international community is a place where the law of the jungle is implemented, and the birth of the nuclear bomb has forced the major powers to change their straightforward approach in the past, and the international competition for resources has become more hidden. But now that a new international order has not yet been formed, Lin Youde intends to seize the time to cut the last piece of meat.

Obviously, the United States is still continuing the old thinking of the past, and has not hesitated to decide to respond to Lin Youde's military action with military action.

By November 1952, the number of American troops in the Persian Gulf had increased to 200,000, mostly in Oman, where the Americans encountered the greatest enemy of the campaign.

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"Mr. President," said Matthew Eisenhower, who was appointed commander-in-chief of military operations in the Middle East by Eisenhower, in the White House conference room. Bunker? "We underestimated Oman's infrastructure, where the port is very rudimentary, there is almost no electricity, and there are no decent roads. Our supplies are piled up in the port and simply cannot be transported inland. If we were to launch a military operation from Oman against the Republic of China, we would have to build a war-ready road in three to four months, but that alone would not be enough, and the facilities there would be hardly capable of sustaining a modern army. ”

"Is the situation really bad enough to do this?" Eisenhower frowned, seemingly dissatisfied with Ridgway's statement.

But Ridgway was not in the slightest attempt to back down: "It's that bad. You fought in North Africa, where there was at least the infrastructure built during the French colonial era, there were ports, roads, there was electricity supply, there were ready-made telephone lines and telegraph lines, but in Oman there was none of that. They don't even have a place to call a town other than the capital, and even the capital is the equivalent of a small and medium-sized town in the United States. ”

Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "According to your field investigation, how long will it take to establish a logistics support system in Oman that is modern enough for the army to fight?" ”

"Eight months." Li Qiwei replied without hesitation.

"It's been too long, we can't wait that long." Eisenhower shook his head, "We have to take action early next year." ”

"I don't understand," Secretary of Defense Wilson said, "shouldn't our army be able to fight under any circumstances?" Could it be that the war zone is a wild place, and our army will not be able to fight? ”

"Yes, but we need to find a way to secure logistics in that kind of wilderness. In other words, when fighting in the wilderness, we need to establish the center of logistics first, and then build roads or other things to connect the center with the war zone. Mr. Secretary of Defense, the current US military is extremely dependent on logistics. ”

"But aren't our opponents also fighting in this wild land?" The Secretary of Defense still can't accept Ridgway's statement, "If they can do it, we can't do it?" ”

"The Republic has long built roads of a very high standard along the Persian Gulf coast, and their roads lead to the Qatar peninsula. On the way of their army to Abu Dhabi, there were only about 200 roads without roads, but their sappers must have been repairing the roads, and they were probably about to be repaired, and according to the information provided by the Arabs, they had also built an airport near Abu Dhabi. If war officially breaks out now or in the first half of next year, I am afraid that we will have to fight under a situation where the logistical pressure is far greater than that of the enemy. ”

Everyone at the conference table looked at each other.

At this time, MacArthur, who attended the meeting as the supreme commander of the army, said: "Why don't we land directly in the Persian Gulf, so that we can directly use the roads and other infrastructure that the Republic has built." ”R1148