Chapter 911 Carrot and Stick

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As long as these three points are not involved, it is almost impossible for the current United States to send troops.

What's more, the US's current military strategy for the Middle East is to withdraw from the quagmire of war in the Middle East as much as possible, and to focus on the Asia-Pacific region in the face of a global all-out war. This policy, no matter who the next government is as president , will not change, and the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan is the most obvious signal of the transformation of the entire military strategy.

Russia is naturally on the side of Iran. Iran does not like to see Saudi Arabia send troops to Yemen to attack the Houthi armed forces that share the same beliefs as itself.

At the same time, Iran does not want to see Saudi Arabia showing its muscles in front of itself and robbing itself of its status as the number one power in the Arab world.

After all, one of the purposes of Saudi Arabia's use of force against Yemen is to declare its military presence and influence on Iran.

Another reason why Saudi Arabia wants to do this is because of the Iranian nuclear issue, the concessions made by the United States made Saudi Arabia very angry.

Saudi Arabia has been very dissatisfied with Iran's nuclear issue since it entered the stage of peace negotiations.

Especially after the negotiations have entered a stage where results are beginning to emerge, the Saudi side can't sit still.

Now on the issue of nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran, the two sides have negotiated on the details of Iran's peaceful use of nuclear energy.

As long as the negotiation results emerge, Iran can have the right to peacefully use nuclear energy. Freedom to build civilian nuclear facilities.

At that time, the United States will also lift sanctions on Iran, once the sanctions are gone. Then Iran's economy will be fully recovered.

In fact, this is also the result that the EU has always needed, because the EU can no longer bear the control of the EU by Russia on the issue of natural gas.

In fact, the European Union has always wanted to conduct natural gas transactions with Iran. Iran, which has the world's second largest natural gas reserves, can free the European Union from Russia's control over natural gas.

This is even more so in my hometown, because as early as several years ago, a natural gas pipeline running through Pakistan was built from my hometown. It has already extended to the border of Iran, and Iran has also built a pipeline to extend to the border of Pakistan.

Two pipelines are on the border,

The distance is tens of centimeters. Only one connecting pipe is needed, and the Iranian natural gas can be transported to the hometown immediately.

And because of the sanctions imposed by the United Nations on the Iranian nuclear issue, Iran's oil exports are not even one-third of normal times. Natural gas exports are strictly restricted.

Once this restriction is opened. Iran will soon be flooded with money, and even the United States cannot stop the needs of Europe and the Asia-Pacific.

Iran's oil exports will soon triple, and a large amount of natural gas will immediately be supplied to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

From the perspective of Saudi Arabia, the current Iran is already very difficult to deal with. If an Iran with stable economic sources and support emerges, then Saudi Arabia's status as an Arab power will immediately be surpassed by Iran.

Iran just needs to calm down for a year or two. It will become a very rich country, and even if it really produces nuclear weapons at that time. There is no need to worry about external sanctions at all.

This is what Saudi Arabia can't bear the most. Based on this, Saudi Arabia's characteristics against Iran are very obvious.

What makes Saudi Arabia most dissatisfied is that the United States is obviously loosening its shackles on Iran. Otherwise, the United States can completely resist the pressure from the EU and NATO and continue to impose sanctions on Iran.

But the United States is obviously trying to maintain a balance of political power in the Middle East. In this regard, the Americans really have no intention of making Saudi Arabia really bigger in the Middle East.

The emergence of a Middle East power structure in which Saudi Arabia and Iran compete is what the United States hopes to see.

As for the European Union, it naturally does not want Yemen to be destroyed, because the Gulf of Aden is the lifeline of European countries, and 60% of Europe's economy comes from the Gulf of Aden, the main artery of life.

The Yemeni regime, for Europe, is simply harmful and has no benefit. What Europe hopes to see most is that Yemen can negotiate peacefully.

The same goes for my hometown. The key place of the Maritime Silk Road is the Gulf of Aden. There is no doubt about this. Like the European Union, my hometown also hopes that Yemen will be peaceful and calm, and don’t mess with so many moths.

Before my hometown went to Yemen to evacuate the diaspora, the direct use of warships was not only to evacuate the diaspora quickly, but also to tell the people on the Arabian Peninsula that I also held weapons in this place.

President Roosevelt of the United States gives people the biggest impression of a carrot with a stick. His famous saying is: speak kindly, but have a big stick in your hand.

It’s the same in my hometown now, it’s like two people fighting, and you persuade them from the sidelines, but the two people who are fighting look at you and find that you have no threat at all, and you have nothing on you, so naturally it is impossible to listen to your persuasion.

But if you hold a gun in your hand, tell both of them not to fight, and see who dares to do it.

This is also an obvious change in the foreign policy of my hometown. It has begun to hold a pistol and speak well. This is worth learning for Cai Ruichen.

And in this situation where the whole world does not support it, Saudi Arabia still gathered a group of brothers, the ten-nation coalition, which sounds very good, but except for Saudi Arabia's own troops, all of them came to make soy sauce.

After all, countries like Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are all wealthy owners, but it would be a super joke to ask them to use force.

Most of them just came to sit on the bench for a while, which is a little support for the big brother of Saudi Arabia. After all, they have nothing to do. The monarchy countries in the Middle East are the only ones left, and they can only hold together to keep warm.

If you leave Big Brother Saudi, your complete status will be difficult to guarantee.

As a result, Saudi Arabia also miscalculated a little. Originally, Saudi Arabia thought that in addition to the Houthi armed forces, half of the citizens in Yemen would join the road to meet the Saudi Royal Army, but the result was just the opposite.

At the beginning, these Yemenis welcomed the Saudi attack on the Houthis, but as the Saudi air strikes began, the Saudi Air Force, which had no war experience, caused more civilian casualties, and all of them were Yemenis.

At this time, if someone stood up and shouted in support of Saudi Arabia's sending troops to Yemen, it is estimated that this person would be beaten to death by other Yemenis immediately.

This is beyond Saudi Arabia's expectations. All wars have been very difficult. Gagen Salman's son Mohammad is still a super layman who has never been a soldier for a day. Commanding hundreds of thousands of troops to fight is simply a joke. . (To be continued.)