The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

After seeing Al off, Liu Tao looked thoughtful.

The international situation is unpredictable and no one can fully control it.

The strategic importance of Iraq is beyond doubt!

Iraq is rich in oil resources and is one of the major oil-producing countries in the Middle East. Its oil resources have an important impact on the economic development of itself and its neighboring countries. Whoever controls Iraq can obtain a large amount of oil, and their pricing power and voice in oil will be greatly increased.

Furthermore, from a geopolitical perspective, Iraq is located in the heart of the Middle East, a region where the Eurasian continent and hegemonic interests converge. Whoever controls this area is equivalent to controlling the lifeline of the Eurasian continent and has the strategic initiative.

If we ask which is more important, Afghanistan or Iraq, then Iraq is undoubtedly more important!

At that time, it was thought that George Wharton was full of martial virtues, and he needed to give the Americans, who had been suppressed for many years, a way to vent their endless energy, while also making them bleed and continuously pouring money into two bottomless pits.

Judging from the current situation, this strategic goal has been achieved.

The Americans have invested huge amounts of money and resources in the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq, and all their energy has been tied up in those battlefields.

Compared to its initial brutality, after a few years, the bald eagle has become much calmer and is no longer so aggressive in many areas.

In other places, limited energy and strength give these places rare opportunities for development.

The economies of almost all Latin American countries have developed quite well in recent years.

Especially countries with abundant oil and natural gas are developing at a rapid pace.

But for Americans, from a certain perspective, the United States has also achieved its strategies in Afghanistan and Iraq, taking a greater initiative in geopolitics and enhancing its voice in the world.

Moreover, the US military has accumulated a lot of practical experience through these two wars.

It's just that the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was a little higher.

From a certain perspective, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were win-win, or even multi-win situations.

Europe is not a loser either!

Germany took advantage of this rare opportunity to achieve military autonomy. Without troops stationed in other countries, Germany truly became a sovereign and independent country.

The Franco-German alliance has grown in strength, driving the whole of Europe towards faster integration.

In Europe, there are more voices of independent thinking based on Europe’s own interests.

Relations between Europe and Russia have improved greatly.

For Russia, it is not necessarily a loser, but also one of the winners. It has the best of both worlds and controls two of the world's three largest energy consumption markets. Relying on the huge income from energy, it is rapidly regaining vitality and restoring its national strength.

Russia has even become a truly developed country, meeting the standards of a developed country in all respects.

But the world has not become safer or more stable.

On the contrary, the world is in fact becoming less safe.

There is a view in the world today that is becoming increasingly louder and louder, that is, the more Americans fight terrorism, the more terrorism there is. Countries around the world have already seen clearly that the Americans are using the fight against terrorism to promote world hegemony.

The result is that there are more and more extremist organizations and extremists around the world.

Nationalism is on the rise all over the world!

To be honest, Liu Tao was not surprised at all when war broke out in some countries or regions.

Three feet of ice does not last in a day!
Wars are not started suddenly and inexplicably. There are always traces. Contradictions accumulate and eventually lead to war. War is the result of accumulated contradictions and a development process, not a sudden outbreak in an instant.

The Zhuhai Air Show has just ended.

The major forces in Sri Lanka were finally exhausted from fighting and chose to stop fighting and make peace.

Sri Lanka is a founding member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and a member of the Commonwealth, the G77, the Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations. Its capital, Colombo, is known as the 'Crossroads of the East'.

However, since the civil war broke out in 1983, it lasted for 23 years and turned the entire Sri Lanka into ruins.

Sri Lanka has become the least developed country in the world, with countless people dying from hunger and war every year.

Before the outbreak of the Sri Lankan civil war in 1983, the population was 1572 million. According to United Nations estimates, Sri Lanka's population is now unlikely to exceed 1000 million, roughly equivalent to the level in 1960.

Now all parties in Sri Lanka have shaken hands and made peace, ending the war and restoring peace in Sri Lanka, but a big problem remains.

Sri Lanka post-war reconstruction!

Sri Lanka, which had become a ruin, had no money to buy food or carry out post-war reconstruction.

Even the United Nations' humanitarian aid is far from meeting Sri Lanka's needs.

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Sure enough, less than a month after the war ended, on Christmas Eve, the eve of Christmas in the West, civil war broke out again in Sri Lanka.

It’s just that the civil war broke out again in Sri Lanka, but it didn’t attract any news attention internationally.

Perhaps it is because the Sri Lankan Civil War has lasted for so many years that people have lost interest in it.

Perhaps it is because Sri Lanka is on the far edge of geopolitics and attracts little attention.

To be honest, the United States has thought about intervening in Sri Lanka, because once it controls Sri Lanka, it will have the most important strategic fulcrum in the Indian Ocean and can maintain a huge influence in the Indian Ocean.

But after ten years of trying, the CIA gave up.

Sri Lanka is really too complicated, with religions, cultures, ethnicities, etc. mixed together. It is so difficult to truly achieve peace and unification in Sri Lanka!

Unless the United States invests tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars here, spends countless energy and efforts, and takes several years or even decades, it will be difficult to complete the transformation of Sri Lanka.

But is the United States willing to pay such a high price?

It is simply impossible for the United States to pay such a price to support such a country.

The United States is not a philanthropist!

The national strength of the United States is not infinite, but limited.

Liu Tao was speechless when he saw that civil war broke out again in Sri Lanka just one month after the ceasefire.

This armistice agreement is more like a rest agreement. All parties will rest for about a month to recuperate and regain strength so that they will have the energy to fight again.

To be honest, Liu Tao didn't know how Sri Lanka could restore peace, because the situation was too complicated, both internally and externally.

This is also an important reason why Sri Lanka was not included in the subsequent South Asian Association.

Even South India, which is the closest country, has had to increase patrols in the waters to prevent Sri Lankan refugees from entering.

Anyone who goes headfirst into Sri Lanka will probably find it difficult to achieve anything. (End of this chapter)