Chapter 1119 Dark Clouds
The United States is determined to attack Iraq, and no one is happiest than Israel.
There is only one country in the world that has claimed the land there because it lived there two thousand years ago, and has successfully established its own country, that is Israel in the Middle East. They moved Jews from all over the world and established Israel.
Cause, I used to live there!
If the whole world acted like this, the world would have been in chaos a long time ago. There have been so many countries that have been established in the past, and every nation wants to restore its former glory, and there will definitely be constant wars.
However, the Jews succeeded!
But Israel is very insecure. After all, it is surrounded by enemies. Israel must continue to win and cannot fail. If it fails once, it will be an abyss!
If it weren't for his son's full help many times, Israel would have been gone, and the Jews would have started their wandering journey again.
For Israel, the best thing is for the United States to focus on the Middle East and have a large number of military bases in the Middle East, so that Israel will be safe.
If the United States can win Iraq, then Israel can walk sideways in the Middle East and bully the Arabs no matter what. It can even take this opportunity to destroy Palestine and monopolize the entire Palestinian land.
Even Israel expressed its willingness to send a large army to join the coalition forces.
However, Israel's request was rejected by the United States without hesitation.
Because the United States does not want this to trigger an all-out war between the United States and the Arab world!
If the Israeli army joins the coalition, there is no doubt that the Arab coalition and Arab countries will send troops to help Iraq.
Until now, the United States has not been able to confirm whether the Arab coalition forces will help Iraq if it launches a war in Iraq, or even trigger a war against the United States in the entire Arab world.
To be honest, if the United States wants to launch a war in Iraq, the risks are very high.
Although the United States is powerful, it is not strong enough to do whatever it wants.
But it is obvious that the United States itself does not think so. They are betting that the Arab world will not choose to completely break away from the United States for the sake of Iraq.
Strong military strength and a powerful nuclear arsenal have given the United States ample confidence.
At this time, Americans were very willing to believe in force and believed that force could solve everything.
From a military perspective, the United States has no springboard in the Middle East. Unlike during the Gulf War, the United States had Saudi Arabia as a springboard. The only choice the United States has is to attack the northeastern part of Iraq from Turkey, but there is the Kurdish mountainous area, which even Iraqis usually have a headache.
It can be said that because of the inconvenient transportation and the fact that it is a mountainous area, it is difficult for Americans to move.
In the Kurdish mountains, there are also Iraqi defense fortifications.
American reconnaissance satellites and reconnaissance aircraft have long detected the Iraqi army's construction of defense fortifications in the northeast.
But Americans still believe that they can break through the defense line there. According to the saying, if the Chinese can do it, so can the Americans.
The worst case scenario is to learn the long-term bloodletting method and fight for ten to eight years until the Iraqis can't stand it and then choose to surrender completely.
If we say that during the Gulf War, the Americans wanted to fight Iraq by helping Kuwait regain its independence, and in the process demonstrated the powerful force of the United States, and wanted to station troops in various countries in the Middle East, but Iraq was defeated, but because of the Arab coalition's Strong and powerful opposition voices in the Arab world, the Americans had to withdraw from the Middle East.
But this time, no matter what, we must attack Iraq, occupy Iraq, and then use Iraq as a springboard to control the countries in the Middle East, thereby achieving control of the Middle East, the world's energy center.
The world's energy is not decided by Americans. This kind of thing makes the United States really uncomfortable!
Without controlling the world's energy center, the United States will not be able to speak effectively in the world.
Entering February, the world's eyes can't help but focus on the Middle East, specifically on Iraq.
The United States constantly mobilizes troops and deploys troops to Türkiye, the Mediterranean, and the Arabian Sea.
The dark cloud of war hangs over the Middle East. In this case, the international crude oil price exceeded US$40 per barrel before the war started.
Of course, for the United States, everyone is not only focusing on the U.S.’s upcoming war against Iraq, but also on the crash of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia.
The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated when it returned to the atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts and becoming one of the major space shuttle crashes.
The Space Shuttle Columbia was launched for the first time on April 12, 1981. It was the first space shuttle officially put into service in the United States. The cabin of Columbia is 18 meters long, can carry 36 tons of cargo, and looks like a large delta wing. The entire assembly of the aircraft weighs about 2,000 tons. During taxiing, it can also maneuver for 2,000 kilometers in both directions to select a suitable landing site.
This time, it was the Columbia space shuttle carrying out its 28th space mission, which was far less than its design reusability of 100 times.
The cost of 'Columbia' that year was US$1.2 billion!
On average, including maintenance costs and usage costs, the average single use cost of the Space Shuttle Columbia is as high as $600 million.
Such a high usage fee far exceeds the planned single cost of 60 million U.S. dollars, making the United States miserable.
The crash of the space shuttle Columbia has cast a shadow over the world's aerospace development.
At this time, Liu Tao came to the Space Center.
Since the decision to implement the manned space program and the determination of the "three-step" development strategy of my country's manned space program. The eyes of the Chinese people have once again focused on the space that they dream of, and the manned space program that the center's scientific researchers have longed for has also ushered in a new dawn.
Panshan Group invested 5 billion yuan to rebuild the Huaxia Space Center, making the entire Huaxia Space Center look brand new.
Although Huaxia has not yet achieved manned space flight over the years, it does not mean that nothing has been done.
In the Huaxia Space Center, a complete astronaut selection and training system has been formed, and more than a dozen large-scale ground training and test facilities such as space flight simulators, simulated weightlessness tanks, and extravehicular space suit test cabins have been built. 21 outstanding astronauts have been selected and trained, and a space station assembly simulator has been established.
A health protection mechanism for astronauts with Chinese characteristics has been established, and a path of astronaut health protection that combines Western medicine has been taken.
Breakthroughs and mastery of key technologies in spacecraft environmental control and life support have achieved life safety protection for astronauts from short-term flights to medium- and long-term flights.
In recent years, China has independently developed seven in-cabin space suits and six extravehicular space suits, and now has reached the world's advanced level in terms of space suits.
In addition, it has also developed six categories of hundreds of space foods to enrich the astronauts' "space meals".
It can be said that China is now ready for manned space flight, and it only needs the east wind!