Chapter 386: Oil War (Eight More Requests for Subscription and Reward)

But in the game between big countries, it has always been those small countries that have perished.

This sounds sad, but it is an indisputable fact.

Russia has developed its own strategy of being a great power, intending to separate its oil and gas exports from the dollar, and not allowing the dollar to settle its own country's oil and gas exports.

This makes Europe actually very excited, because there is no need to be in the process of dollar settlement, the dollar earns the difference and benefits.

The direct use of the euro for settlement is also very beneficial to the value of the euro and the stability of the eurozone.

However, the Americans are naturally not happy, and although this strategy has not yet begun to be implemented, if it is not contained now, the United States' own economy will begin to collapse.

But against Russia, naturally, it is impossible to talk about a fight as it did with Iraq or Syria.

Compared to Russia, Iraq and Syria are both weak countries, and the United States can fight if it wants, and there is no need to think too much about it at all.

But the Russian army is not vegetarian either, and those tens of thousands of nuclear warheads alone are enough to destroy the planet.

Even if it is a conventional war, the Russian army and air force are not easy to provoke, and even if it does not turn into a nuclear war in the end, the casualties caused by the conventional war alone are enough for the United States to weigh it well.

Since the war cannot be fought, then the United States has to think about how to contain Russia.

The oil war is once again in front of us.

However, this oil war is not the oil war of 1985 against the precise containment of the Soviet economy.

This time the Americans are also taking extremely high risks, because once the dollar price gets out of control. For a long time, it fell below forty dollars a barrel. It is very likely that the U.S. economy will repeat the subprime mortgage crisis of '08.

The main reasons are shale oil and shale gas.

The early days of Obama's presidency. The soaring growth of oil prices has made shale oil and shale gas, which have always been at huge development costs, so that many speculative businessmen and consortia see huge opportunities.

In just a few years, shale gas and shale oil extraction across the United States has grown on a huge scale.

And it has brought tens of millions of jobs to the United States, all of whom are dependent on these two new energy sectors.

But the cost of extracting these two energy sources is high, and it is not to say that it is similar to oil. Drill a vertical wellhead and you can get oil.

In addition, shale oil and shale gas in the United States are all far from the refining industry in the coastal areas of the United States, and there are no oil pipelines.

This would require the use of trains to transport the crude oil to the coastal refining cities, raising the average cost of a barrel of shale oil by at least $15.

Coupled with the huge cost of extraction, shale oil and shale gas are only profitable when the price of crude oil remains at $79.

At present, the international oil price has fallen below $35, and there is a trend of continuing to fall.

As a result, companies and businessmen in the United States who have invested heavily in shale oil and gas have all gone bankrupt.

A large number of employed individuals are once again unemployed, and then these shale oil and shale gas companies are putting out a lot of junk bonds on the stock market. Immediately, there was a leverage effect.

Therefore, the United States has also taken a huge risk, but this risk can still be controlled in a short period of time.

That's why the United States needs future technology groups. A large number of products of Future Technology Group can get economic benefits in a short time.

In addition, factories invested in the United States and cooperative enterprises can also generate a large number of jobs.

Future Technology Group's after-sales service in the United States is also a physical store, and there are various other branches, which are all needed to recruit local workers in the United States.

Then the robot stewards and software companies will also be able to increase consumption in the United States and stimulate the weak consumer market in the United States, which can help the United States increase fiscal revenue this year.

In addition, another reason why the United States wants to win over the Future Technology Group is that the United States does not want to see the Future Technology Group successfully won over by the Russian side.

Because of the global business of Future Technology Group, the United States does not have a good way to intervene, but for the development of Future Technology Group in the Middle East, it is very important for the United States.

Americans can see the value of future technology groups, and so can those in Russia.

Once the future technology group is co-opted by Russia, it will not be good news for the United States.

Now Russia's military influence has gradually gained a foothold in the Middle East, quite like the style of the Soviet Union.

With the help of Future Technology Group, the combination of the two would be tricky even in the United States.

Therefore, what the United States wants to think of is to win over Future Technology, and at the worst, it is impossible for Russia to successfully win over Future Technology Group.

This is also why the United States reacted immediately after learning that Putin was going to Marin in eight months.

Even Hillary (deliberately not writing Kerry), a strong woman, decided to come to Marin Town as soon as possible.

But the Americans are still one step faster, Anders came first, and Cai Ruichen also intended to walk with the United States first, and the two slaps were loud.

Cooperation requires sincerity and foundation, and Cai Ruichen knows very well that he can understand the global strategy of the United States, and try his best to make the future technology group behave in line with the needs of the United States.

After Anders's simple temptation, he also believed that the United States was quite comfortable with wooing him.

It's just that the Iraqi government forces need to go through the United States if they want to buy weapons and equipment.

Because the United States is now Iraq's largest creditor, and Iraq is already doomed to be unable to repay these foreign debts this year.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the Iraqi government forces can survive the war with the Islamic State, the US government has also provided some economic assistance to the Iraqi government.

It's just that now in Iraq, the United States has no surplus weapons to sell to the Iraqi government.

And to sell weapons to the Iraqi government, it is impossible to deliver them in a short period of time.

Otherwise, without the consent of the big creditors, how could the Iraqi government have the money to buy weapons from Future Technologies?

Therefore, behind the seemingly simple things, they are often very complicated, after all, the issues considered by the state are all carefully considered to the point of being beyond measure.

The reason why the United States wants to help the Iraqi government has a little bit to do with Saudi Arabia, but this reason is more on the Syrian side. (This one involves religion, so I won't write about it.) )

Saudi Arabia wants to break the same form of government system in the three countries around it: Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

It was also this time that Saudi Arabia helped the United States to make trouble in the oil market.

Therefore, the United States has also stepped up its attack on the Islamic State, which can be regarded as returning the favor of Saudi Arabia. (To be continued.) )