The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1118 The test tube contains laundry detergent

2003 2 Month 5 Day.

The UN Security Council is in session.

The United Nations Security Council, or UNSC, is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. It is organized so that it can work continuously, and each member of the Security Council must always have a representative stationed at the United Nations Headquarters.

At the same time, the UN Security Council is the only UN agency with the power to take military action!

On April 1945, 4, representatives from 25 countries convened the United Nations International Organization Conference in San Francisco, the United States. On June 50 of the same year, representatives from 6 countries signed the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, the United States. On October 26 of the same year, the Charter came into effect, and since then, the United Nations was officially established as an entity organization.

The UN Charter provides for the establishment of six main UN organs, namely the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the Secretariat and the International Court of Justice.

The UN Charter assigns primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security to the Security Council, which can meet when peace is threatened.

In accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, the Security Council is responsible for maintaining international peace and security and is the only UN body with the power to take coercive action. The five permanent members have a veto.

The purpose of this meeting was to allow the United States to obtain authorization from the United Nations to launch the Iraq War with a joint force led by the US military.

The United States' reason is that Iraq violated the agreement signed during the Gulf War, developed weapons of mass destruction, and possessed weapons of mass destruction.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell took out a test tube filled with white powder and showed it to the representatives of various countries present at the conference. This was the chemical weapon of mass destruction developed by Iraq, and the bottle contained the "evidence" that the U.S. military had obtained at the risk of their lives.

The United States requested the United Nations to approve the dispatch of U.S. troops to Iraq to search and deal with the matter.

They said they were going to Iraq to investigate and deal with the matter, but in fact they were going to start a war in Iraq.

Unfortunately, this time, during the voting process, only the United States and the United Kingdom voted in favor, while the other three permanent members all voted against.

The five permanent members have veto power. If only one permanent member casts a veto, the resolution will not be passed, let alone if three permanent members cast a veto.

France holds a grudge against the United States for interfering in Africa, causing France to lose its interests in the entire continent, not to mention the Kosovo War, in which France and other European countries were badly cheated.

France, Germany and other European countries strongly opposed the US attack on Iraq, and the two sides have now fallen out.

Just two days ago, France and Germany, regardless of opposition from their American and British allies, withdrew their troops participating in the Afghan War from Afghanistan and entered Pakistan, and officially announced that they would no longer send troops to Afghanistan.

At this time, there were 4500 French troops in Afghanistan and 4000 German troops. In the past year and a half of the Afghan war, 882 French soldiers were killed and 2774 were injured; 579 German soldiers were killed and 1736 were injured.

This time, France and Germany withdrew their troops from Afghanistan without handing over to the coalition forces. They directly withdrew from the barracks, and even left behind all their weapons, equipment, ammunition, and supplies. The French and German troops quickly withdrew from Afghanistan, but as soon as they left, the barracks and cities were immediately captured by guerrillas, and all their weapons, equipment, and supplies were seized by the guerrillas.

At the Security Council, France voted against it without hesitation.

Russia has had a lot of dirty tricks with the United States recently. Originally, Russia tried to make goodwill gestures, but did not get the expected benefits, which made Russia very dissatisfied, and it also voted against it this time.

Although the US launching the Iraq War will raise international crude oil and natural gas prices, which will help Russia obtain more revenue from oil and natural gas exports, once the US controls Iraq, its voice in the entire Middle East will increase greatly. With Iraqi oil, the US's voice in world energy will increase greatly, and even expand step by step in the future. The US will control the entire Middle East and master the world's energy center. At that time, everyone will have to look at the face of the United States. Therefore, Russia also cast a vote against it.

The US attempt was shattered.

Iraqi representatives clearly promised the world that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, and that Iraq welcomed the United Nations to send personnel to Iraq for inspections.

Moreover, Iraqi representatives exposed the ambitions of the United States, which wanted to achieve geopolitical interests through anti-terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, control Iraq's oil and natural gas, and aim for hegemony.

"That's not a chemical weapon at all. Maybe it contains laundry detergent," the Iraqi representative said. "If it was a chemical weapon, who would dare to handle it without wearing gloves?"

Soon, the news of the Security Council spread throughout the world.

Everyone questioned the contents of the test tube that Powell took out at the United Nations.

Everyone agreed that it was laundry detergent, because chemical weapons could not be so casually stored in a glass test tube.

Powell could not have been unaware that there was a great risk of infection if he took out the test tube with his bare hands without wearing gloves. And if the test tube fell to the ground and the chemical weapons evaporated, everyone in the conference room might die.

When reporters stopped Powell and questioned whether the contents of the test tube he took out were laundry detergent, they believed that it should be taken out and handed over to a third-party agency for inspection.

Powell became furious and scolded the reporter, then walked away.

All of a sudden, everyone believed that Powell was simply cheating.

This not only made Powell a laughing stock of the whole world, but also further damaged the image of the United States.

Who is Powell?
This man is a well-known figure. He has participated in many major US military decisions, such as the invasion of Grenada, the air strikes on Libya, the formulation of the "Star Wars Plan", the invasion of Panama, the Gulf War, and so on.

Everyone believed that Powell did this to find a reason for the United States to launch the invasion of Iraq.

Saddam even held a press conference in Iraq, denying that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and mocked Powell and the United States for their despicable means. He also said that Iraq would never succumb to hegemony, and that as long as anyone dared to invade Iraq, the Iraqi people would oppose it to the end.

By now, Saddam no longer had any hope for peace. He was well aware that all kinds of intelligence showed that the Americans were determined to attack Iraq.

Saddam has ordered the Iraqi army to further build bunkers and underground bunkers in the Kurdish mountainous areas and to speed up the reinforcement of trenches and other defensive fortifications.

More weapons, ammunition and supplies were transported to the Kurdish mountainous areas.

Then we will further train the reserve soldiers so that more people will have the ability to fight.

(End of this chapter)