Chapter 607: The Shrewd U.S. Arms Business
After the two world wars, with the rise of national independence movements around the world, the countries of the Middle East also became independent.
In the early days, when the vast amount of oil resources was not discovered in this region, the Middle East did not have much turmoil and war compared to today, and many countries did not even have a modern army in the true sense of the word.
But since the United States and Britain and other major powers dominated the controversial decision on the land issue for Israel's statehood, the contradictions in the region have suddenly flare.
From the first Middle East war was predictable, but at this time neither of the Arabs and Israelis practically had decent troops.
Before the start of the war, the U.S. government exported a large number of weapons and equipment to the warring Arab countries and Israel, so that the war could be fought.
The first Middle East war ended with the successful establishment of Israel, but the seeds of hatred have been planted deeply, and the entire Middle East has since entered a circular arms race.
At this time, a large number of oil resources were discovered, and some countries in this region a. Get rich at night.
Originally, economic development could provide a good way out for easing and resolving contradictions, but with the support of the United States, Israel's military power is dominant, and the military balance in the Middle East region has been wiped out.
After losing several wars in the Middle East to Israel, many Arab countries have begun to choose the path of relying on the United States to seek security according to American rules, and have purchased American weapons at high prices as "protection money" in exchange for US military asylum.
As for those countries that do not play according to the "law", such as Iraq, Libya, and Syria, the United States has always regarded it as a thorn in the side, and now it is even more likely to overthrow the Iraqi regime with its own hands.
Manufacture of Mo. Friction and imbalance are the best excuse for the United States to sell weapons.
For example, the United States exported a series of state-of-the-art weapons, including the F14, to Iran, which greatly increased its military strength, which made Iran's old enemy Saudi Arabia unable to sit still, and immediately imported a large number of American weapons, and since then has become the largest financier of the US military industry.
The United States first acquiesced in Saddam's initiation of the Iran-Iraq war, and later turned to support Iran to withstand Shaddam's surprise attack, which lasted for 10 years, and both sides bought a large amount of US dollar arms.
The Gulf War was obviously able to oust Saddam Hussein from power at one time, but it raised his own dignity, thus forcing the neighboring countries to cling to the US military. Leg.
All kinds of routines are breathtaking, take a recent US arms deal in the Middle East as an example: the front foot has just joined hands with Saudi Arabia to label Qatar as a terrorist sponsor, and exported 100 billion arms to Saudi Arabia, and the back foot sold Qatar the highest unit price F15, and also called it a reliable friend, this business can be said to eat Party A and eat Party B.
Arms are one of the most profitable commodities in the world, there is no one.
According to experts, the F-15 fighter jets sold by the United States to Qatar cost no more than $30 million, but the price is more than $300 million, and if converted to the current price of oil, it will probably cost more than 6 million barrels of oil to exchange for an aircraft.
As a matter of fact, the US Government has always been the best salesman of US weapons, and wherever there is war, there must be US arms business.
After the intensification of contradictions in the Middle East in the last century, the Middle East has been the largest source of arms dollars for the United States, and US government officials have been running in this region for a long time, selling the F35 to Israel today and the F16 to the United Arab Emirates tomorrow.
Yesterday he signed a large deal for tanks with his ally Turkish government, and the day after tomorrow he sold anti-tank missiles to the Kurds.
And in the Middle East, it is not only arms dealers who are on the surface, but also the weapons of the US military are resold by small arms dealers to armed factions secretly supported by the United States, and then used to massacre civilians.
In fact, the Middle East is a gathering place for American arms dealers, from Boeing Lockheed Martin's arms giants to private small arms dealers, all of whom have set up offices, and their business is thriving and their energy is amazing.
The Middle East has been at war for decades, and the question is, how many more people will continue to be killed before the war stops?
Perhaps the answer will be pessimistic and hopeless. As a result of the growing chaos and extremist ideologies in the Middle East, coupled with the dwindling of oil as a non-renewable resource and the rapid growth of the local population, some oil-producing countries may fall into even more severe economic crises in the future.
And once the economy collapses, then all kinds of other contradictions will be more acutely highlighted, plus the region has hoarded hundreds of billions of dollars in advanced weapons, so what will happen next?
The answer is obvious.
The Middle East is not only the support of the US petrodollar, but also the treasure land of US money for decades.
Now that the future technology group is strongly involved in the arms market in the Middle East, the Americans will not be depressed.
Compared with the Americans' use of war to propagate weapons, the actions of the future technology group are more straightforward, that is, to use tough means to balance the United States and achieve the ticket to enter the Middle East market.
As global oil prices continue to fall, Future Technology Group's various weapons that far exceed those of the United States in terms of cost performance have become more popular in the Middle East.
There is no need to queue up or wait to buy weapons and equipment from the Future Technology Group, and there is no need to be held by the Americans.
To take the simplest example, Qatar's latest F15 fighter jet purchase project with the United States, the unit price is as high as 300 million, if it is used to buy the Black Hawk fighter jet of the Future Technology Group, not only the quality is higher than that of the F15, which has been in service for more than 30 years in the United States, but the price is only a quarter of the price offered by the Americans.
There is no waiting for the purchase of the Black Hawk, and there are enough training places to assist the purchasing country in learning to use the Black Hawk fighter jet.
Place your order today, the money is in place, and tomorrow the Black Hawk fighter will arrive in your country.
This is the future technology group opening its doors to do business.
This is far beyond the reach of the Americans, at least not a single military-industrial complex in the world that can achieve such astonishing delivery efficiency.
And doing business with Future Technology Group does not need to bear any political conditions at all.
The money and goods are cleared, and there are no hidden conditions.
Cheap, practical, simple, and without sequelae, the country, led by the Saudis, is gradually increasing the pace of purchasing weapons for future technology groups.
This has put US arms sales in the Middle East in a continuous decline for several months.
The United States is quite helpless in this regard, and it is more helpless, and it is impossible to let the future technology group stop doing business.
This is obviously impossible, not to mention that the future technology group will not bird you and the United States, and the countries of the Middle East will not agree.
And once the pressure on the Middle East countries is too tight, it is very likely that the future technology group will make more profits.