Chapter 1065 The Afghan War breaks out

The Americans asked Afghanistan to hand over Bin Laden, but Afghanistan claimed that the incident had nothing to do with Bin Laden and was unwilling to hand him over.

Bin Laden was not an ordinary person. He was born in a family of a wealthy businessman in the construction industry in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. His father died very early. He inherited a large inheritance from his family and served as the chief engineer of the family business. At that time, his property reached 300 million US dollars.

Bin Laden, who was born into a wealthy family, lived a life of luxury most of the time, but lived a hard and pious life like a priest. Based on his belief in supporting brother countries in the Islamic world, after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Bin Laden, who was rich, began to accept military training from the US military and the US Central Intelligence Agency, exhausted his family wealth, and contributed money and effort to support the Afghan guerrillas to resist the Soviet invaders.

During the Gulf War, Bin Laden was very dissatisfied with the US military's actions, believing that it was an insult to the holy places of Islam and a massacre of Arab brothers. It was also from that time that he hated the United States.

For more than 30 years, Bin Laden has a high prestige in Muslim countries.

Among them, the prestige in Afghanistan is the highest.

On October 7, George Walker announced that the United States had begun to launch a military offensive against Afghanistan. This time, the United States joined forces with Britain to declare war on Afghanistan.

What made the United States very angry this time was that funds from Europe were shorting the U.S. stock market, causing heavy losses to the United States.

Although European countries hypocritically expressed sympathy to the United States and the American people, it is unknown how many European countries are gloating.

This incident led to a large amount of capital outflow from the United States, and the scale of outflow exceeded the capital that flowed into the United States during the Kosovo War in 1999.

This war against Afghanistan, involving Britain, is not only to increase momentum, but also to force European countries to contribute manpower.

On October 7, the coalition led by the United States began air strikes on Taliban military bases. The British army assisted the U.S. military in the battle, and other countries such as France, Germany, Australia and Canada provided logistical support.

Because the relationship between the United States and the Persians is not good, the relationship between the two sides has not been normalized, and even diplomatic relations have not been established. Pakistan was dissatisfied with the strong support of the Americans for India at the beginning of the year, and did not loosen its offer of military bases.

So this time, the Americans took off directly from the aircraft carrier docked in the Arabian Sea, and then carried out air strikes on Afghanistan through aerial refueling aircraft.

In order to pass through Pakistan's airspace, the Americans had to pay a fee.

Even the Americans took off bombers from the British islands in the Indian Ocean.

The angry US military did not hesitate to use any explosives, missiles, and fuel, pouring them on the land of Afghanistan.

The first round of US air strikes used various weapons to end the war in a flash.

Finally, through the mediation of a third country, Pakistan agreed to the transit of US ground forces and provided the US military with three temporary military bases.

The reason why Pakistan agreed was that although Pakistan and Afghanistan are both Muslim countries, the domestic situations of the two sides are very different. Pakistan is an Islamic country dominated by Sunnis, while Afghanistan is a country where Shiites and Sunnis coexist. Secondly, the two sides were actually very dirty during the Afghan war. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, they could not control the domestic situation very well. Many places, especially the border areas, were completely autonomous, and even in a tribal state. There were frequent conflicts on the border between the two sides. The US military wanted to attack Afghanistan, and Pakistan would naturally enjoy it. In addition, they could take this opportunity to make a lot of money. The Americans were bleeding heavily this time.

Speaking of the contradictions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, we have to talk about the British, the shit-stirring stick. Pakistan was once part of British India. In the process of westward expansion, Britain also launched the Afghan War, and then encountered stubborn resistance from Afghanistan. From 1839 to 1919, the British launched three consecutive wars of aggression against Afghanistan for 80 years, and then suffered a bloody head in Afghanistan, and could not bite off the hard bone of Afghanistan. In the end, they could only nibble away at part of Afghanistan's territory and draw a dividing line between it and British India, called the Durand Line.

After the partition of India and Pakistan, the Durand Line became the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. This line forcibly divided the original Pashtun people in Afghanistan into two parts, living in two neighboring countries, laying the seeds for the subsequent conflicts.

The two sides have been in constant conflict and often clashed.

Apart from anything else, since the Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan in 1979, Afghanistan, known as the "graveyard of empires", has been in war, either responding to foreign invasions or domestic warlord melees. Afghan refugees displaced in the turmoil have often run to Pakistan, which makes the situation in the border area between the two countries very complicated.

After dealing with Pakistan, the first wave of US ground forces finally arrived at the Afghan battlefield on the 25th day after the declaration of war.

After these 25 days of bombing, many military bases in Afghanistan suffered devastating blows and cities were inhumanely bombed.

Taliban officials and their troops evacuated, and did not confront the Americans head-on, but fought guerrilla warfare.

The Taliban originally relied on guerrilla warfare to get started, and now they are just back to their old business.

The guerrillas blew up railways and roads, slowing down the advance of U.S. ground forces.

Then they continued to attack the US military's transportation lines, and even the guerrillas entered Pakistan and attacked the US military, forcing the US military to send a large number of troops to protect the transportation lines.

The United States mobilized a large number of troops from all over the world to Afghanistan, and then pulled in its allies to form a coalition.

The coalition had a total of 130,000 troops on the ground, including 100,000 US troops, and its allies sent a total of 30,000 troops, including 22,000 British ground troops, and other allies sent a total of 8,000 ground troops.

The coalition was powerful and landed at the Pakistani port in a mighty manner, and then went north to Afghanistan.

The Americans broadcast the entire process live, especially the entire United States. Americans need a place to vent their anger, and Afghanistan is it!

George Walker signed and promulgated the Congressional Act-the Patriot Act on October 26, which expanded the authority of the US police. In addition, the Afghan war was broadcast live throughout the entire process to let Americans vent their anger.

At this moment, no one shouted about human rights or sovereignty, and the whole United States cheered.

This war is probably the war with the highest support rate among the US foreign wars.

This incident really hurt the United States to its core!

In the eyes of Americans, this war is a war of justice and revenge!

As for human rights and sovereignty, go to hell, they use them to constrain other countries, not to constrain themselves!