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After Iraq cut off all economic resources from state-owned enterprises in the occupied territories, ISIS initially tried to generate electricity and water supplies.

But it's just a drop in the bucket, the water supply time is less than an hour a day, and the amount of water is pitifully small.

The power generation was similar, and in the first few days, there were still five or six hours of power every day.

In less than ten days, the electricity supply was reduced to less than an hour a day.

After holding out for less than three days, he simply asked the people in the occupied areas to buy generators out of their own pockets.

A diesel engine costs about $60, and the fuel is pretty cheap.

However, for most families in the occupied areas who only have an income of $100 a month, a family of four can only eat three meals a day, and at the most time, it will cost $60 a month.

This was followed by the Iraqi government's full-blown commercial cumbersomeness against the Islamic State, which was almost to the point of allowing only the Silk Road trading tribes who could afford to offend anyone to move freely.

The increasing shortage of daily necessities has brought about an inevitable effect of inflated prices, and merchants take the opportunity to hoard for sale.

It is inevitable that there is no place or era where businessmen do not do this.

The same is true in the ISIS-occupied areas, where people are not only cut off from water and electricity, but also cannot afford to eat three meals a day thanks to the wages they earn through hard work.

In just a few months, the Islamic State's occupation in Iraq has turned upside down.

And the Islamic State has also taken decisive steps to increase the number of troops. Anyone who is a soldier in the Islamic State militant group. Not only can you receive an absolutely high salary of $600 every month.

Military dependents also receive a $50 monthly stipend. School is free and there is plenty of running water and electricity every day.

This has led to a large number of young people flocking to recruitment points, which has led to a rapid expansion of the forces of the Islamic State.

But this has been followed by a sharp increase in the cost of recruiting and raising soldiers, with at least $4 to 500 million more than $4 to 500 million a year in rigid expenditures.

It's still the same topic as before, that is, the economic source of the Islamic State, which has completely entered into a situation where it cannot make ends meet.

The first is the loss of the large annual tax revenue from the Iraqi government on the salaries of workers in State enterprises.

There is also the fact that the economy of the occupied territories is weak, which has led to a rapid decline in tax revenues.

In the beginning. ISIS has almost implemented a low-tax policy in the occupied areas to gain popular support.

Now, taxes have returned to their normal state, and everything has to be taxed.

Although it has not yet reached the point of drying up the river and fishing, it has also made the local people very complaining.

But for ISIS, the real disaster is a serious inability to make ends meet, and every year it needs to spend a lot of money on basic social services in the occupied areas, which is also a rigid expenditure.

People who do not have basic livelihood guarantees do not need to wait for Iraqi government forces. Armed resistance will be brewed immediately.

And for those tribes on the Silk Road, ISIS did not dare to offend in the slightest.

To know in the Middle East. The most ferocious is not the government armies, nor the armies of the countries, but these tribes on the ancient Silk Road.

Even Saddam, the toughest of those years, was polite to these tribes and treated them with the lowest taxes.

After the US military occupied Iraq, it never set foot in these tribal areas, nor did it feel sorry for the convoys doing business in the tribal areas, and the air force also avoided the skies over these tribal areas as much as possible.

No power in the Middle East will be hostile to the people of these Silk Road tribal areas.

Because this is a group of crazy people who can't be provoked, everyone carries guns, and they are absolutely a real fighting nation.

Whoever affects the normal business operations of the tribes will be attacked by the armed forces of all the tribes.

Therefore, the Islamic State also uses the model of minimum taxation to get along with these tribes on the Silk Road.

In terms of tax revenue, the Islamic State has begun to enter a serious imbalance between its income and expenditure, and the basic social livelihood guarantee invested cannot be stopped.

This makes it necessary to spend at least $3 billion a day, plus military spending.

In terms of income, the tax revenue is about one billion, and the crude oil income is almost five or six billion a year, which is less than half.

In the first year of ISIS's existence, between income and expenditure, it made a profit of more than a billion.

Among them, there is also a large amount of overseas financial support, even now there is almost 100 million foreign forces financial support every year.

Add to that the frenzied expansion of the Islamic State at that time, smuggling Iraqi antiquities, and occupying and looting government property, banks, and large arsenals of weapons.

With all kinds of kidnapping and extortion, the income at that time was indeed very rich.

But now, due to the various Russian air strikes that have not been interrupted every day, there are even bombers joining the bombing ranks every day.

As a result, the armed forces of the Islamic State have lost a large number of heavy weapons.

At that time, the Islamic State also quickly adjusted its strategy, but adjusted a strategic shift that made the situation worse.

That is, to carry out terrorist attacks abroad, and the attack in Paris, France, is the best representative.

But it also attracted a counterattack from the NATO bloc, and the United States, which had previously turned a blind eye to the Islamic State oil smuggling route, directly took the lead in bombing the convoys of those international oil traffickers.

As a result, Russia happily followed, and in just a few days, the Islamic State's largest economic source was hit hard.

Even the oil smuggling route in Turkey has been warned by the United States to make the Turks rein in a little.

On the one hand, the Islamic State has not stopped continuing to create terrorist incidents around the world in order to obtain more international economic aid, and on the other hand, it has to start to find ways to really alleviate the economic pressure.

Because Syria has also begun to follow the example of the Iraqi government, it has stopped all wage payments to the occupied territories and blocked normal business transactions.

It is an eternal truth that war is fought against the economy.

What ISIS has to do now is to use war and plunder again to ease economic pressure.

They did not dare to really increase the tax revenue of the occupied areas and dry up and fish, for fear of causing armed resistance of the people, and did not dare to offend the Silk Road tribes, for fear of attracting armed attacks from the silk tribes.

Rigid spending must not be less, otherwise the huge Islamic State will directly disappear.

So the road of war is in front of us, the wealth of a city, the foreign exchange reserves and gold in the banks, the smuggling of cultural relics, the extortion of those who have money, these are all means that can come to money in a short time.

The Islamic State, which has been doing it for several years, is also very familiar with this. (To be continued......)