The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

The Venezuelan delegation that Chavez brought with him during his visit to China was unprecedentedly large, and they chartered three passenger planes.

The delegation includes Venezuelan official dignitaries, as well as representatives from Venezuelan industry and commerce, economists, education and cultural circles, etc.

Chavez's visit to China will last for a week, and the two sides will hold dialogues in many areas.

The Syrian delegation also arrived in Beijing almost at the same time as the Venezuelan delegation.

Assad personally led the Syrian delegation to visit China.

Although Syria defended the Golan Heights and dealt a heavy blow to Israel in the seventh Middle East war, it did so at a cost.

The war has made Syria's economy even worse.

Syria's economic sources are mainly agriculture, oil, processing industry and tourism. When the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party took power in Syria, it carried out socialist reforms and implemented economic reforms: declaring that natural resources belong to the state, nationalizing large private enterprises and industries, supervising all banks, insurance companies and foreign trade, announcing a decree on workers' participation in the profit distribution of state-owned enterprises, and implementing land reform.

Syria has been producing heavy oil in its northeastern oil fields since the late 1960s, and light oil was discovered in the east in the early 80s.

However, unlike oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Syria's oil reserves are not large, and the oil quality is relatively poor, and the cost of extraction is relatively high.

Since promoting reconciliation, Syria has actively integrated into the Arab League and is one of the top supporters of Arab integration. The support from Arab countries, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and others has always been Syria's most important assistance.

When it comes to Israel, the alliance of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine is the first front.

In the Sixth and Seventh Middle East Wars, Israel suffered heavy losses in front of this front.

According to Assad, Syria has nothing but fighters who are good at fighting.

Of course, Syria is not without anything. After controlling the Golan Heights, Syria earns a large amount of income every year just by selling water.

In this seventh Middle East war, Syria's performance was also remarkable and outstanding.

In order to guard against Israel's attack, Syria has set up five lines of defense in the Golan Heights. Each line of defense is about 10 to 15 kilometers deep and is equipped with bunkers, shelters, barbed wire, and ambushes with tanks and artillery.

When the Israeli ground forces launched the attack, the Syrian artillery and anti-tank guns deployed in hidden positions opened fire on the Israeli army, and the shells poured down on the Israeli tanks like raindrops.

At the same time, the traps filled with mines and anti-tank guns caused heavy losses to Israeli tanks.

The Israeli tanks were either penetrated by anti-tank guns, had their tracks blown up by mines, or fell into anti-tank traps and were unable to move.

In the battle for the Golan Heights, the Israeli army suffered tens of thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of soldiers injured, but ultimately failed to capture the Golan Heights.

If the United States had not intervened in time and forced all parties to cease fire, Israel would probably have faced the situation of national destruction.

However, the war reduced many Israeli buildings to ruins and caused large numbers of civilian casualties.

The war's losses to Israel are even greater than those from the Sixth Middle East War.

Syria has also demonstrated the value of united front work.

Since the fifth Middle East war, Syria's role has become increasingly obvious. In addition, from the very beginning, Syria has had a relatively high degree of independence, and later chose to actively integrate into the Arab League, which makes Syria's united front value increasingly higher.

Of course, Syria is not without troubles. The trouble Syria is facing now is the Kurdish armed forces. There are about 130 million Kurds in northeastern Syria, and now these Kurds are clamoring to leave Syria and join Kurdish Germany.

Because of the Iraq War, the Kurdish armed forces were allocated territory and supported by the United States. Although their territory is not large now, they have already made territorial claims against Syria and Türkiye.

This land is about 5000 square kilometers, and it is Syria's oil-producing area.

Syria would naturally not agree. What a joke! Syria doesn't even have much oil, so how could it agree to such a thing?

The Syrian delegation came this time to seek cooperation to develop oil, natural gas and water resources in the Golan Heights!
Although Saudi Arabia and other countries are rich, they lack the technology to develop the Golan Heights.

There are only a handful of countries in the world that have the Golan Heights.

Once the Golan Heights is developed, Syria will generate considerable additional income every year.

Of course, there is another aspect, which is to seek cooperation in security.

Türkiye, Kurds, and the United States have all caused Syria to be filled with security concerns.

Safety comes first, development comes second!
The huge security dilemma has forced Syria to maintain a relatively large army.

Why did the seventh Middle East war stop? It was because Syria and Jordan could not stop the US military's attack. Once the US military launched an attack, Syria and Jordan could not stop it.

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This also makes the Arab world very annoyed.

The biggest conflict in the Middle East today is not the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, nor the religious conflict between Shiites and Sunnis, but the conflict between Islam and Christianity, and the conflict between Arab civilization and American hegemony.

Over the past two decades, as Arab scholars have conducted research, the people of Arab countries have become increasingly aware of, and increasingly hostile to, the U.S. meddling in the affairs of the Arab world and interfering in regional peace.

As early as the 90s, not long after the Gulf War ended, the voice of "the Middle East is the Middle East for the Middle Eastern people" was very loud.

Liu Tao naturally welcomed this situation.

A multipolar world is what we all pursue, not one superpower and many strong countries!
Americans thought that when George Walton announced on Christmas that the US-led coalition forces had won the Iraq War, the Iraq War was truly over.

It turns out that Americans were too naive.

Americans can decide when a war starts, but they cannot decide when or how it ends.

The large-scale war is over, but the Americans' security war in Iraq has just begun.

The frequent attacks are enough to give Americans a headache.

The Americans left the Kurdish mountainous area to the Kurdish armed forces, but it is not an easy task for the Kurdish armed forces to take over the Kurdish mountainous area, even with fire support provided by the air force of the joint forces.

In addition, the Iraqi guerrillas can obtain weapons and weapons supplies from all around.

In Iraq, it is much easier to obtain weapons and supplies than in Afghanistan.

Since the United States announced the end of the Iraq War, weapons and supplies have never been cut off from Persia to the Kurdish mountains on the border between Iran and Iraq. (End of this chapter)