Chapter 385: Dollar Core (Seven More Requests for Subscription Tips)
This is a test of the Rhino tank, and it is not a comprehensive display to the outside world.
This kind of display doesn't need to be witnessed by too many people, and at the moment Anders and Obeidi have seen it.
For this reason, Cai Ruichen can be regarded as deliberate, after all, he can let the two of them come over to participate in the test of the Rhino tank, and he hopes to achieve some of the next tactical goals.
One of them is to see if the Iraqi government army will buy this tank, the technical performance and actual combat effectiveness of the Rhino tank will not be worse than any third-generation main battle tank.
If the Iraqi government forces are interested in buying it, then he will be more than happy to sell it.
Because the Iraqi government forces are currently fighting against the Islamic State, the number of armored troops is very short, and it is easy to open the gap.
At present, the Iraqi government army is very interested in many weapons and equipment of the Future Technology Group.
At present, the global price of oil has fallen again and again, and now it is almost 35 dollars per barrel.
For more than a year, oil prices were first cut off, and now they have dropped to one-third of what they used to be, and the decline in oil prices continues.
Among them, Saudi Arabia is a local tyrant, definitely the richest country in the world, and the country that is most likely to withstand the oil war.
Because Saudi Arabia's national foreign exchange reserves contain more than $800 billion in reserves, which is enough for Saudi Arabia to meet the balance of the country's annual fiscal deficit after the price of oil prices drops.
When Saudi Arabia started to drop oil prices last year, the fiscal deficit was $19 billion, compared to $800 billion. It's drizzle.
This year's fiscal deficit has risen to $50 billion. But the Saudi side is also firmly seated in the Diaoyutai. Because there are $800 billion in foreign exchange reserves, which can support at least 10 years.
Saudi Arabia is a local tyrant, there is no doubt about this, in this oil price war, he is the most stable country, and he can reduce production at any time, immediately raise oil prices, and grasp the greatest autonomy in the oil war.
But this is not the case at all in other countries. Iraq is also largely dependent on oil exports.
In this oil war between the United States and Saudi Arabia and Russia, the countries that have been hurt by the war are other oil-producing countries in the Middle East.
Iraq, in particular, has shrunk its finances by one-third compared with last year, and the Iraqi government's fiscal revenue has been able to reach $30 billion in a few years, which is already quite good.
This is nearly $3 million less than expected, and Iraq needs at least $130 billion a year of government spending, and the saddest thing is that. The Iraqi government's foreign exchange reserves are only a few tens of billions of dollars.
This leads to: The Iraqi government forces in the next year, will not be able to repay the foreign debt, and then the country's economy is about to collapse completely.
This is already a situation that everyone can see, but for the Iraqi government, it is a broken jar anyway, the country is torn apart, and they are not afraid of a worse situation.
The United States still regards itself as a friend, but in order to contain Russia, it is my ally who suffers.
So Iraq has found the United States very singlely, big brother, what do you say about this matter?
The boss of the United States told the little brother of the Iraqi government to fight, fight the Islamic State, and don't worry about the rest.
That's why the Iraqi government forces will begin to buy weapons and equipment from the Future Technology Group.
The Iraqi government owes the most foreign debts to the United States, so the United States says that it is not afraid, and the Iraqi government is not worried.
And the U.S. government is actually gritting its teeth, because this all-out oil war against Russia is originally a war that kills 1,000 enemies and loses 800.
But the United States also has to unite with Saudi Arabia to deal with Russia, which is the strategy of the United States to contain Putin's new rise as a great power.
What is this strategy? To put it simply, there is only one sentence, the future of Russian oil and gas exports will only be settled in euros, yuan and rubles.
The purpose of Putin's great power strategy is to shake the position of the United States in the global dollar, which is the core strategy of the United States.
At the beginning of the 20th century, 2,000 years ago, Saddam Hussein put forward an oil strategy, which coincided with the establishment of the euro zone, and Saddam Hussein proposed that all Iraq's oil exports would be settled by euros in order to earn the exchange rate between the euro and the US dollar, and also to resist the US dollar.
As a result, three years later, the United States killed Saddam, which is one of the reasons why the United States fought Iraq.
This is also why when the United States attacked Iraq, the whole of Europe was opposed, including those NATO allies, especially France and Germany, because the oil exported by Iraq was of great benefit to the establishment of the eurozone.
However, the United States is the only one, and in order to maintain the hegemony of the dollar, it has launched a war against Iraq.
And why did Gaddafi die, and still made a big death, at that time Saddam Hussein also knew how to bind the euro, but Gaddafi proposed that Libyan oil exports neither want dollars nor euros.
Instead, it calls for the establishment of a joint bank in Africa and the Middle East, and the unification of the currencies of Africa and the Middle East, once again pegging the currency to gold, and launching a gold dinar currency that belongs to the integration of Africa and the Middle East, and all oil and gas in the Middle East and Africa will be settled by the gold dinar.
Gaddafi really just won't die if he doesn't die, and at this time, don't say that the United States wants to beat you, and the whole of Europe will not let it go.
So France fired the first shot at the air strikes on Libya, and then Gaddafi followed in Saddam's footsteps.
The U.S. oil strategy is a plan put forward by Nixon after the 70s of the last century, which is still known as the most correct strategy of the United States today.
At that time, the United States went around the Middle East, and then chose Saudi Arabia, which was everywhere in the Middle East at that time, when the dynasty was overthrown.
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia was also terrified to death when it saw that the dynasties of the surrounding countries had been overthrown.
The United States has proposed that the United States will protect the eternal security of the Saudi royal family, and no one can overthrow the Saudi royal family.
There is only one condition, that all oil exported by Saudi Arabia in the future must be settled in US dollars, and that the US Treasury bonds must also be purchased for the US dollars exported from oil.
Saudi Arabia heard it, it was very good, after all, the dollar is still very secure, and you can always eat interest when you buy government bonds, and the most important thing is to ensure the safety of your royal family for 10,000 years.
So Saudi Arabia has been with the United States since that time, and has launched a total of three oil wars against the Soviet Union and now Russia.
Now this is the third time, and it could be the longest. (To be continued.) )