Chapter 1114: Bush's Response
The war in the Middle East has suddenly burned out without warning, and as soon as the news was revealed, a bombshell was dropped on the whole world, and when the news was first learned, almost all countries thought it was fake news. Pen ~ fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info will learn after repeated confirmation that Iraq and Iran are indeed at war again.
After the landing of elite troops raided by Iran, the war has begun in full swing, with the Iraqi Air Force in the north, the Iranian Air Force in the east directly attacking Bahrain, and the cross-sea bridge connecting Bahrain and Saudi Arabia was directly blown up. In Bahrain, where there is no anti-aircraft firepower, the Soviet fighters crossing the border are the absolute air supremacy in this area, the Soviet fighters have reached the predetermined bombing area, below is the camp of the Bahraini military, armed men can be seen patrolling everywhere on the streets, and the militia is consolidating the fortifications of this area for the last resistance.
Ninety percent of Bahrain's population is Shia, and they have no good opinion of their own king, and it is well known that American GIs cannot control their crotch wherever they want to go, which means anything in a country with a strong religion. One or two can be seen from the anti-American sentiment that preceded the Iranian revolution. An even more vivid example, the military and political officials of a province during the peanut rice period could not do anything about this kind of thing, and this is the case with the loss of power and humiliation of the country.
In the absence of external forces, the dissatisfaction of the Bahrainis can only be dissatisfaction, and the Bahraini army is not worth mentioning in front of the American garrison, let alone these unarmed civilians. But now it is different, the collapse of social order brought about by the war, and the unprecedented chaos have emboldened the Bahrainis who have always kept their dissatisfaction in their hearts.
Why is it that seemingly stable countries are often unable to completely eradicate the hidden danger of military coups? Because the army is also composed of ordinary people, the army's loyalty to the country cannot be squandered without a bottom line. The Bahraini army is not made up of a small number of Sunnis, they are also drawn from the vast majority of Shiites, and they also represent the will of the people. When triggered under such conditions as war, it is logical what choice the army makes.
After learning that the attacker was Iran, the Bahrainis were the first to join in the destruction, and the news spread so quickly throughout Bahrain that it was hard to imagine that this was the result of word of mouth, and in fact it was not. Soon this situation in favor of Iran spread to the military, which had established a secular government and religion was being governed, but the habits of the millennia were not easily reversed, and Iran did not live up to the state that the Soviet Union had hoped for.
Bahrain has Iran's latent forces, and under the guidance of the Shiite groups, Iran is advancing very smoothly under the guidance of most of the army. Of course, the Kingdom of Bahrain still has the troops of the last king, that's for sure.
The Iranian fighter pilots dropped all the bombs on the designated area, as they had done during the training period in the Soviet Union, and according to the intelligence, it was the base camp of the supporters of the Bahraini royal family, and the incendiary bombs were not densely dropped into the area locked on the monitor, and the moment they reached the ground, the orange fireball emitted by the explosion of the incendiary bomb enveloped the entire southern area, and the fireball rose and was followed by billowing smoke, and those armed personnel who did not have time to evacuate were directly burned into charred corpses by the fireball. Heart-rending wails resounded throughout the city.
This was followed by Iranian armored forces that attacked, attacking the palace under the cover of helicopter gunships. The smoke of war spread throughout Bahrain, and the air forces of the two countries continued to bomb any military target intensively.
The Iranian and Iraqi air forces bombed the royal palace in Bahrain, which was almost in ruins, but did not harass the bases of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the process, as if they had never seen it.
"The two countries still have some scruples!" Serov, who had already cultivated immortals to the late stage, drooped his swollen eyelids, wondering if he wanted to use medicine to lift his spirits, "But it's not without precedent, probably in the fifties, didn't our neighbors in the east also come to fight only the Chiang ships and not the American ships?" Bullying the weak and fearing the hard, any country is like this, and our country is willing to do the same, hehe......"
The general secretary fired a map cannon and shot countless countries around the world, but he was still very smug. In fact, the remnants of the US Fifth Fleet, which are currently left in Bahrain, will be beneficial to the Soviet Union regardless of the response.
It is actually very difficult to drive Iran into the sea, and Iran's army aviation division, amphibious forces, and airborne troops add up to nearly 30,000 people, and if there is the support of the Fifth Fleet, Serov believes that there is no problem for US imperialism to exert imperialist punishment, but it is a pity that the Fifth Fleet is not there, and there is no army heavy army group in the area, which is very embarrassing.
If there is no reaction, it means that imperialism is a paper tiger, and the Soviet Union is just as happy to see it, and will preach it, so that the allies of the Soviet Union can see that the Americans do not dare to move in the face of the Middle Easterners, so they are completely vulnerable.
"The Soviet Union was shocked by the actions of Iraq and Iran, and once again it must be stated that the Soviet Union had no knowledge of the actions of both countries and was closely following the developments of the situation, like all countries." Gromyko, who was still in Cairo, faced reporters from all over the world to clear up the connection between the current war and the Soviet Union, but he had not forgotten the previous fire, and said in a speculative tone, "Perhaps, this is also the first step in the unification of the Arab world." ”
As soon as this remark caused an uproar in the whole world, the reunification of the Arab world was the most terrible thing for politicians. Almost equal to the emergence of the second USSR, and it will be even more terrible. Goodwill towards the Arab world is based entirely on the division of the Arab world as a whole, and the tendency of the Arab world to unify is when the countries join hands to strangle and demonstrate imperialist unity.
Arab nationalism has been spreading for a long time, and Egypt is still clinging to Nasser's ideas, with Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Assad in Syria interested. The threat to Arab unity in this world is far greater than Serov's well-known history.
Serov also knew this, but still got Gromyko to support it. As a general secretary who loves to step on the line, he is very willing to test where the bottom line of world harmony is. In the same way, this does not mean that the Soviet Union will support Arab reunification, because Serov knows what the Soviet Union supports, and the United States will oppose it, and when it comes to Arab reunification, it is not only the United States that opposes it.
In less than a day, Bahrain's organized resistance had disappeared, and the Kuwaiti royal family quickly retreated to begin its journey into exile in Saudi Arabia, announcing the establishment of a government-in-exile in Riyadh. Of course, the war is not over, but it has shown that some of the big picture has been decided, but the United States does not think so.
In the White House, Bush, who had just been on the presidency for a few months, was in a sinking position, and his journey to the presidency was not easy, because of the mistakes made by Reagan in the last two years, the United States had a great sense of distrust of the Republican Party. But the blessings and misfortunes depend on them, and there are two sides to everything. Because of some difficulties in the United States, the Republican Party has basically expanded.
In many cases, this is the case, when the economy is booming, and the party that is overflowing with the heart of the Virgin is apt to gain power. When a country's economy stagnates, right-wing ideas tend to be more easily accepted, and populism rises. In the current general election, in which Bush participated, the basic bases of both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party have been greatly improved.
It is also because of this that the Republican Party won the election very hard, and the views of the two parties in the United States are unprecedentedly opposed, and there are basically no middle voters in this election. The Republican Party was able to win solely because the fundamentals were bigger and the Soviet threat was getting stronger.
"Three Iraqi divisions suddenly crossed the border to attack Kuwait, and at the same time Iran sent elite troops to form an assault group to attack Bahrain, we can be sure that the two countries must have greeted each other before they started, because the Iraqi and Iranian air forces are working together, but at the moment we don't know the role of the Soviet Union in this, so far Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko has cleared up the Soviet Union's relationship with this matter." The new Secretary of Defense Dick? Cheney spoke, giving a glimpse of the latest situation, and judged, "I personally believe that the Soviet Union is absolutely informed. ”
"Is it possible that the Soviet Union deliberately sent the Red Navy fleet to lure us away and create conditions for an offensive by Iraq and Iran!" Secretary of State Addison? Baker asked the question, and he had to be so skeptical, it was actually a little too coincidental.
"It's not impossible, but!" Secretary of Defense Dick? Cheney said with difficulty, "If the Soviet Union really did this on purpose, wouldn't it be too internationalistic?" ”
With the bait of the two main fleets of the Soviet Red Navy, in order to help two of the dozens of allies, the United States could not do this anyway, and the Soviet Union had to bear any losses it suffered, which was equivalent to gambling with the property of the Soviet people, and all the benefits were given to Iraq and Iran, who had done this?
"Don't dwell on the question of whether the Soviet Union had motives or not!" Although Bush and Reagan have similar ideas, he is not the actor, and he will not do anything to let the Soviet Union take the blame to solve the problem, but to find a way to solve the problem first and then to deduct the blame, "order the Fifth Fleet to turn around and go back, and inform Australia to negotiate with Indonesia in a negotiated manner." ”
"Immediately convene a United Nations General Assembly to criticize Iraq and Iran for pursuing regional hegemony and aggression against sovereign states." While thinking about it, Bush said, "Let Congress convene a meeting to discuss it, and pay special attention to international public opinion during this period, if public opinion allows!" Bush did not finish his words, and if public opinion allows, it is to fight.