The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1119 Dark Clouds
The United States is determined to attack Iraq, and the one who is most happy is Israel.

The only country in the world that claimed to own the land there and successfully established its own country because people lived there two thousand years ago is Israel in the Middle East. They migrated Jews from all over the world to Israel and established it.

Cause, I used to live there!
If the whole world were to do this, the world would have been in chaos long ago. There have been so many countries established, and every nation wants to restore its former glory, so there would definitely be constant wars.

But the Jews succeeded!
But Israel feels very insecure. After all, it is surrounded by enemies. Israel must continue to win and cannot fail. If it fails even once, it will be into the abyss!
If it weren’t for his son’s full support on many occasions, Israel would have been gone long ago and the Jews would have had to start their wandering journey again.

The best thing for Israel is that the United States focuses on the Middle East and has a large number of military bases in the Middle East, so that Israel will be safe.

If the United States can take over Iraq, then Israel will be able to run rampant in the Middle East and bully the Arabs in any way it wants. It can even take this opportunity to destroy Palestine and monopolize the entire Palestinian land.

Even Israel has expressed its willingness to send a large army to join the joint force.

However, Israel's request was rejected by the United States without hesitation.

Because the United States does not want this to trigger a full-scale war between the United States and the Arab world!

If the Israeli army joins the joint forces, there is no doubt that the Arab coalition forces and Arab countries will send troops to help Iraq.

Up to now, the United States has not been able to confirm whether the Arab coalition would help Iraq if it launched a war against Iraq, or even trigger the entire Arab world to start a war against the United States.

To be honest, the risks for the United States to launch a war in Iraq are very high.

Although the United States is powerful, it is not powerful enough to do whatever it wants.

But it is obvious that the United States itself does not think so. They are gambling that the Arab world will not choose to completely break with the United States for Iraq.

Strong military power and powerful nuclear arsenal give the United States sufficient confidence.

At this time, Americans were very willing to believe in the use of force and believed that force could solve everything.

From a military perspective, the United States has no springboard in the Middle East, unlike during the Gulf War when it had Saudi Arabia. The only option the United States has is to attack northeastern Iraq from Turkey, but that is the Kurdish mountainous area, which is a headache for even the Iraqis in normal times.

It can be said that due to the inconvenient transportation and the mountainous area, it was difficult for Americans to move around.

There are also Iraqi fortifications in the Kurdish mountains.

The American reconnaissance satellites and reconnaissance aircraft had long discovered that the Iraqi army was building fortifications in the northeast.

But the Americans still believe that they can break through the defense line there. In other words, if the Chinese can do it, then the Americans can certainly do it too.

At worst, we can learn the long-term bloodletting method and fight for ten or eight years until the Iraqis can't stand it and choose to surrender completely.

If we say that during the Gulf War, the Americans wanted to fight Iraq by helping Kuwait to restore its country, in the process demonstrate the United States' powerful military force, and wanted to station troops in various Middle Eastern countries, but they did beat Iraq, but because of the strength of the Arab coalition and the strong opposition in the Arab world, the Americans had to withdraw from the Middle East.

But this time, they must attack Iraq no matter what, occupy Iraq, and then use Iraq as a springboard to control the Middle East countries, thereby achieving control over the Middle East, the world's energy center. The world's energy is not decided by the Americans, and this makes the United States very uncomfortable!
Without controlling the world's energy center, the United States will not be able to have an effective voice in the world.

As February begins, the world's attention is inevitably focused on the Middle East, or more precisely, Iraq.

The United States continues to deploy troops to Türkiye, the Mediterranean, and the Arabian Sea.

The shadow of war hangs over the Middle East. Under such circumstances, the international crude oil price has exceeded $40 per barrel before the war even started.

Of course, for the United States, people are not only focused on the upcoming war against Iraq, but also on the crash of the US space shuttle Columbia.

The Columbia space shuttle disintegrated when it returned to the atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board, making it one of the most significant space shuttle accidents.

The Columbia space shuttle was first launched on April 1981, 4. It is the first space shuttle officially put into service by the United States. The Columbia cabin is 12 meters long and can carry 18 tons of cargo. It looks like a large delta-wing aircraft. The entire assembly weighs about 36 tons. During gliding, it can also maneuver 2000 kilometers in both directions to select a suitable landing site.

This time, it was the Columbia space shuttle that was carrying out its 28th space mission, far less than its designed reuse rate of 100 times.

The cost of building 'Columbia' was $12 billion that year!
On average, including maintenance and operating costs, the average cost of using the Columbia space shuttle is as high as $6 million.

Such high usage fees far exceed the planned single fee of US$6000 million, making the United States miserable.

The crash of the Columbia space shuttle cast a shadow on the development of the world's space industry.

At this time, Liu Tao came to the space center.

Since the decision to implement the manned space program and the determination of the "three-step" development strategy for my country's manned space program, the Chinese people have once again focused on the space they have always dreamed of, and the long-awaited manned space program of the center's scientific researchers has also ushered in a new dawn.

Panshan Group invested 50 billion yuan to rebuild the China Space Center, giving the entire China Space Center a brand new look.

Although China has not achieved manned space flight over the years, it does not mean that nothing has been done.

At the China Space Center, a complete astronaut selection and training system has been formed. More than a dozen large-scale ground training and testing facilities have been built, including a space flight simulator, a simulated weightlessness water tank, and an extravehicular space suit test chamber. 21 outstanding astronauts have been selected and trained, and a space station assembly simulator has been established.

A health protection mechanism for astronauts with Chinese characteristics has been established, and a path of astronaut health protection that combines Western medicine and medicine has been taken.

We have broken through and mastered the key technologies of spacecraft environmental control and life support, and achieved life safety protection for astronauts from short-term flights to medium- and long-term flights.

In recent years, China has independently developed seven types of indoor space suits and six types of extravehicular space suits, and its space suits have now reached the world's advanced level.

In addition, hundreds of types of space food in six categories have been developed to enrich the astronauts' "space meals".

It can be said that China is now ready for manned space flight, except for the favorable conditions!
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