Chapter 270 Good Things Happen Again and Again

"The governments of Iraq and Kuwait suddenly announced a ceasefire in Moscow, and Iraq will unconditionally withdraw all Iraqi troops from Kuwait..."

"The Soviet Union announced that it would allow Iraq to use oil to repay its foreign debt of approximately $30 billion, which would be converted into Soviet investment in Iraq's oil industry..."

"Under the mediation of the Soviet Union, Syria agreed to build an oil pipeline connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf with Iraq and Kuwait. The Soviet Union will be responsible for the construction contract of the entire project. This oil pipeline project will adopt the Soviet oil pipeline standard. At the same time, Iraq transferred part of the rights and interests of the pipeline to Kuwait to compensate Kuwait for foreign debts..."

"Iraq executed several high-ranking military officers who launched the invasion of Kuwait without authorization, and agreed to compensate Kuwait for the war..."

"Kuwait announced the expulsion of 3 Saudi diplomats and 4 US diplomats..."

"The Bush Administration's diplomatic failure, the Republican Party may lose the majority of seats in the mid-term elections!"

Just after the United Nations General Assembly, the US-led multinational group submitted to the Security Council a proposal to attack Iraq with a single vote, which was rejected by the Soviet Union. Then the above-mentioned astonishing combination occurred. Under the leadership of the Soviet Union, Iraq and Kuwait announced a ceasefire in Moscow. , Iraq unconditionally withdraws troops from Kuwait to restore territorial sovereignty, and the two countries reconcile. At the same time, the Soviet Union obtained the exclusive right to build an oil pipeline from Kuwait to the Syrian port of Latakia. The Soviet Union became the biggest winner in this Kuwait crisis.

The diplomatic failure of the Bush administration has caused his approval rating to plummet. At this moment, the Bush administration is about to usher in the mid-term elections in the United States. Because the Bush administration insists on going its own way on the issue of sending troops, this has disappointed many Americans.

Gorbachev was very excited about Seryozha's overwhelming victory in the Middle East. This was a major diplomatic victory for the Soviet Union after the collapse of the socialist camp in Eastern Europe. China used economic means as an opportunity to solve the problem, which not only turned the war between Iraq and Kuwait into friendship, but also restored relations between Syria and Iraq, the two major allies of the Soviet Union in the Middle East. The Soviet Union even turned Iraq's debt into the Soviet Union's high-quality oil assets in the Middle East.

However, Seryozha still has some regrets, that is, Saudi Arabia did not accept the conditions of the Soviet Union, but this brought about a better situation. Kuwait, which had loyally followed Saudi Arabia, began to have a gap with Saudi Arabia, leading to the embrace of the Soviet Union. This also caused Saudi Arabia's position in the Arab countries to begin to shake. This is definitely a good sign for the Soviet Union.

Frustrated, President Bush canceled the meeting with Sergey. Sergey naturally didn't want to stay longer in the United States, so he flew back to Moscow by plane. Reports to the Politburo for work at the United Nations. Everyone can see the achievements of Sergey Sha, and even those who are not convinced think that they can't do better than Sergey Sha. Sergey's talent in diplomacy was too prominent on the Kuwait issue this time. Shevardnadze suggested that Sergey would take full charge of the next 4+2 negotiations on the merger of Germany and Germany. Because of Seryozha's performance at the United Nations General Assembly, people saw a different Soviet Union, no longer the chauvinist face of a big country in the past, but a more flexible, mutually beneficial and win-win mentality to deal with international issues. This caused many countries to begin to change their views on the Soviet Union.

Not long after Seryozha returned to Moscow, good news came one after another. Yeltsin was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic with an undisputed high vote, and Gorbachev was also successfully elected the first Soviet president after the reform.

In addition, Bulgaria and Romania announced to join the Eastern European single market to accept the custody of the Central Bank of Eastern Europe. Albania and Yugoslavia have become the exact observer countries of the Central Bank of Eastern Europe. For Albania, Sergesha is happy to accept, but for Yugoslavia, Sergesha has reservations, because Yugoslavia's political situation is unstable, and it is facing the crisis of fragmentation just like the Soviet Union. Under such circumstances, if Yugoslavia is accepted into the unified market plan of the Central Bank of Eastern Europe, it will be tantamount to setting itself on fire.

But not all the news is good, in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ended in disastrous defeat in the local highest elections and lost its ruling power. The victors were all local democratic platform parties that advocated independence. Because the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had changed its party program before the election and no longer imposed the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the entire country, the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania was already inevitable. In addition, the Communist Party of Georgia narrowly won the election, and the Communist Party did not have an advantage in the seats of the local Supreme Soviet in the elections in Moldavia and other regions.

Seryozha did not invest any funds in these republics to improve the local economy, so it was expected by Seryozha in which areas the Soviet Communist Party lost power. But now Seryozha was in no hurry about it. Because after these countries break away from the Soviet Union, they will face the same dilemma as Eastern European countries. They will not only lose support from the Soviet Union, but also cannot be accepted by the United States and Western countries. The only way in front of them in the future is the unified market in Eastern Europe. Instead, these countries lost by the Soviet Union will be controlled by the Gorky Group with economic means. The Soviet Union has legally created a legal withdrawal mechanism for the member countries. Seryozha's only request now is that the CPSU should not split in Russia and Ukraine and not lose its ruling power.

Sergey is now Yeltsin's biggest political ally. As long as Sergey does not oppose Gorbachev, Yeltsin will naturally not oppose it. As for the democratic program faction cultivated by Yakovlev, Seriosha decided to find an opportunity to completely clean them out of the CPSU.

After the Central Bank of Eastern Europe took Romania and Bulgaria, Seriosha had a new plan, which was to combine the rich resources of the Soviet Union with the economies of Eastern Europe. Build an energy and economic community. This idea is very beneficial to both Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union can obtain a stable energy consumption market, while Eastern Europe can obtain cheap energy, thereby reducing their business competition costs. Eastern Europe now enjoys preferential trade conditions between the United States and Europe. This condition It is not available in the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union can obtain these benefits indirectly through the industries in Eastern Europe.