Bush's failure to mention Iran is not because he has warm feelings for Iran, but because Iran's assets in the United States have long been confiscated, and at the time of the Iranian Revolution, there are no assets for Bush to freeze. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The statement of the United States immediately provoked a huge reaction around the world, and at the same time US Secretary of State James? Addison? Baker also opened a visit to Moscow.

It is a matter of procedure that the visit must be carried out whether it is effective or not. It would be best if we could get the understanding of the Soviet Union, and even if it couldn't, the United States made relevant efforts, and when the time came, it would be able to show that no one was to blame me.

At this time, the whole world was holding its breath, observing the communication between the Soviet Union and the United States, of course, this person did not include Serov, who also sent the head of the Central Liaison Department, Tsvigon, to visit Baghdad and Tehran, to pacify the two countries on behalf of Moscow, to once again show the determination of the Soviet Union to protect the allies, and Gromyko to greet Addison? Baker's itinerary took place at the same time.

Serov himself did not come forward, Gromyko is more experienced in this area than he is, and this negotiation is unlikely to succeed, what can the United States offer in exchange for thirty-four percent of the world's oil reserves? Iraq, Iran, plus the USSR itself, are already half of the world's reserves, what can be exchanged for it? At least with the ordinary brain of a big spy can't think of it.

"Preemptive? Attack Saudi Arabia? Serov took the battle plan handed over by Defense Minister Marshal Akhromeyev, was silent for a moment, shook his head, and said, "There is no problem militarily, but politically there is a big problem. Historically, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have had nothing to do with each other, and it is not possible to use the excuse of reunification. That's aggression? The implications are too great to consider. ”

The situation is still under control, but once Iraq is allowed to attack Saudi Arabia, this matter will be irreversible. This is the question of the scale of the war, what Serov wants is a separate confrontation between the USSR and the United States, not involving the European side, at least the Warsaw Pact and NATO are better not to move.

To put it bluntly, whether it is a war in the Middle East or a world war, if the allies of the Soviet Union take the initiative to attack Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union will face a joint confrontation with the whole world except itself, and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan are expected to all go into battle. Because once Saudi Arabia is not guaranteed, no country will believe in the credibility of the Soviet Union, but will think that the Soviet Union has accumulated enough strength to jump out and dominate the world.

"If we take the initiative to attack, the United States will lose its foothold, which is the most certain military certainty." Defense Minister Akhromeyev said seriously, "So that the entire Persian Gulf is in our hands." ”

"If the opponent is Malta, I agree with your plan, but the opponent is the United States. With the naval and air forces of the United States, even if Saudi Arabia is destroyed, it is not a problem to seize a foothold and land. Don't forget the countries of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Serov said with a cold face, "The most direct result of taking the initiative to attack Saudi Arabia is that it can show us the unity of the bourgeoisie." It is estimated that the United States can pull out a group of troops from industrial countries to kill the Persian Gulf, and can we fight the whole world with one country? ”

Seeing that Marshal Akhromeyev was silent, Serov said in a low voice, "There are too many countries that have been swallowed up by greed, the situation has to change little by little, in fact, the United States can't even accept the annexation of Kuwait, once Saudi Arabia is annexed, NATO will fight with us, we want to win, not to die with the United States, we have to understand this." ”

In order to preserve the results of Kuwait, Serov believes that the world's leading power will change hands, and it is recognized that it will change hands. At that time, the influence and national prestige of the Soviet Union were not the same as they are now.

The problem now is that the United States did not want the Soviet Union to take Kuwait into its pockets. While this matter is still hot, it will personally take action to take it back, and the Soviet Union cannot let the United States do this. The United States may think that the Soviet Union will not directly confront the United States, but will copy the model of the Vietnam War, but for the sake of oil, the United States will jump down even if it knows about it.

If the Vietnam War could be replicated, things would be simpler. Serov's illness would make the Soviet Union bleed its own against the United States, and perhaps now the United States itself does not know that their technological progress has reached the point where it will not allow the Vietnam War to repeat itself. It was also after the Gulf War that the Americans themselves guessed and realized this.

But Serov realized that it was impossible for Iran and Iraq to block the US military, and only the Soviet Union could block the US military in a head-to-head confrontation.

"Well, we still try to replenish the armies of the two countries as much as possible, the military hoarded in Afghanistan is arriving in the two countries, and Baghdad and Tehran are also issuing conscription orders to expand their troops." Marshal Akhromeyev changed the subject and said, "If all these armaments cannot be used, the armies of the two countries can reach about 1.5 million." It has always been a huge military force. ”

The 1.5 million troops of the Iran-Iraq alliance can be regarded as a powerful military force anywhere, but it is not an army equipped with Soviet tanks that is called a torrent of steel, and the Soviet Union also has a huge helicopter gunship and a fighter group in the sky to advance together.

For several days in a row, the world's focus was on the Persian Gulf region, and for the Soviet Union, the benefits were already beginning to be felt, with oil prices starting to rise sharply after bottoming out, and Soviet revenues beginning to rise.

The bad thing is that this time the gap between the Soviet Union and the United States has not ended, on the contrary, Moscow and Washington have begun to send missions to visit other countries, the United States hopes to get military support from its allies, and the Soviet Union hopes to solve the problem with diplomatic pressure. In Paris, in Bonn, in London, this diplomatic war is constantly shifting the battlefield.

The purpose of the USSR was simple, it hoped that Europe would stay out of the possible confrontation that would follow and leave the problem to the United States. This purpose was not all successful, and France did not explicitly want to cooperate with the United States, but the attitude of Britain was very obvious.

"A war involving land, for which the United States is not prepared for several months is fruitless; Land warfare requires much more preparation than the ocean, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers eat horses and chew horses, which take time to prepare. Serov pinched his stiff neck and said, "It seems that the US troops in Bahrain have retreated to Saudi Arabia, and it seems that the United States is ready to use Saudi Arabia as a counteroffensive base?" ”

"That's right, General Secretary!" Chebrikov explained the latest situation, "The two US Navy fleets led by the USS Eisenhower and USS Independence have entered the Gulf region, and they are still off the coast of Saudi Arabia, but they have not entered the Strait of Hormuz!" ”

"Hey, that's the advantage of controlling the land, the navy is strong, and it needs a good port. Now the US Navy is actually in an awkward position, in the Arabian Peninsula they lack such ports. "Serov has a bit of a villain's snag of ambition, and it is very correct for American aircraft carriers not to enter the Persian Gulf, and even to abandon the base in Bahrain.

One end of the Strait of Hormuz is in Iranian hands, and once a US aircraft carrier enters the Persian Gulf, it is likely to be sent to the bottom of the sea by land-based missiles, which no commander in his right head would do. But in fact, Saudi Arabia is not very safe, you must know that South Yemen is also an ally of the Soviet Union, and Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries accept the US military, which is also a big risk.

But what does this have to do with the Soviet Union? Do you think Serov will sympathize with the United States? He almost burst out laughing. The countries of Eurasia, starting with Vietnam in Southeast Asia and ending in the Persian Gulf, are pro-Soviet countries. The United States intelligently relies on its own strong transportation capacity to maintain supply lines, and Saudi Arabia itself does not have the ability to supply the US military, except for oil, which is a desert.

"Intensify the combat readiness of our three major military regions, and don't be caught off guard when the time comes. I also hope that Iran and Iraq can hold off the U.S. military without our intervention, but that is unlikely. Serov shook his head and said, "Let Egypt and Syria bite Israel, and the two countries are in war preparations, and I believe that if Israel has brains, it will not be involved." Let the Kurds pay attention to Turkey's movements, and South Yemen will be able to protect itself. ”

Hearing about South Yemen, Xie Luofei remembered that after the matter was over, Iran would guarantee peace between North and South Yemen until the final reunification, and the unification model was naturally the Soviet system and the establishment of a centralized state.

At a time when Moscow is figuring out Washington's intentions, US President George W. Bush is also seizing the time to deal with the current crisis, Iraq occupying Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia in an attempt to further control Gulf oil and occupy a dominant position in OPEC. This is a direct blow and a serious challenge to the world hegemony of the United States and its oil interests.

"Our diplomatic work has been fruitful, but it has not been smooth, and this time the United States is facing an unprecedented crisis." President Bush said worriedly, "We must respond to this threat head-on and tell the Soviet Union unequivocally that we mean it." ”

The US Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of State all nodded their heads when they heard this, and the Soviet Union has been ambiguous in its public statements since the incident, and if the United States does not show its determination to fight a war, it is very likely that the Soviet Union will think that the United States is weak and tough.

After all, in the decades of the Cold War, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had ever confronted each other head-on on the battlefield, and everyone subconsciously ignored this possibility.

"Then our operation passed, and the operation was called Desert Shield." President Bush finally made a decision.

Defense Secretary Cheney officially ordered the operation to begin, and 2,300 troops of the US 82nd Airborne Division boarded the plane as the vanguard of Operation Desert Shield, and five minutes later, the plane carrying the paratroopers was ordered to take off from the Fort Bragg base in North Carolina for Saudi Arabia. Operation Desert Shield began.

Almost at the same time, two squadrons of F-15 fighter jets took off from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for designated Saudi airfields as the first air force units to be sent to Saudi Arabia.

Baghdad immediately responded by transferring troops from the north to Kuwait in the south, and Tehran also used transport planes to increase the defense of the Beilin Forest.

The USSR, which was supposed to be concerned, was forgotten at this time. The Bush administration seems to have determined that the Soviet Union would not intervene.