Chapter 76 Japan and Germany were forced to "bleed"

In a short period of time, thoughtful people in Europe and around the world immediately understood that George Bush's war in Iraq had other purposes besides protecting American and Western oil interests in Saudi Arabia.Bush's unbelievably vulgar public mocking of Saddam Hussein and his comparison of the Iraqi president to a "modern-day Adolf Hitler" was no mystification. During the war and six-month build-up, Washington and London launched an unprecedented propaganda campaign and pressure on Iraqi supporters in the West, and while the Soviet Union or France were once the main suppliers of Iraqi weapons, they were not this time The main target of the propaganda offensive.The main target this time is Germany—more precisely, Germany's high-tech industry, which is very important for the reconstruction of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.France and the Soviet Union, along with China, the United States and the United Kingdom, are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, but France and the Soviet Union have agreed to vote for Washington.After the January 17 deadline, Washington and Britain were to go to war, backed by France and the Soviet Union.What they did in Iraq has been deliberately ignored in Washington's propaganda offensive.

Instead, through direct links with British and American intelligence agencies, the Hamburg-based Der Spiegel, as well as influential Republican senators such as Jesse Holmes, began attacking Germany with all its might, claiming that Germany exported so-called "two "Using" technology gave Saddam's forces the ability to fire Soviet Scud missiles at Israeli targets. The panic-stricken Bonn government, dealing with the complexities of a reunified former GDR, was forced to divert precious time, energy and financial resources to the New World Order of George Bush and Thatcher. In late January, US Secretary of State James Baker went ahead with one of the most urgent financial fundraising missions in history, securing guarantees from Germany, Japan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to raise a total of $54.5 billion to pay for Operation Desert Storm.

According to a report in The Times of London on February 6, 1991, about three weeks after Operation Desert Storm bombed Iraq, one of the most tragic events of the war occurred, "the once prosperous Berlin-Baghdad railway devastated. The relentless bombing of Iraqi bridges, transportation hubs, and railway marshalling yards has left the Middle East’s already scant railway network in ruins,” they added lightly, “This old Berlin-Baghdad railway It is the focus of strategic competition between Britain and Germany." After the war, former Reagan Administration Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Cobb revealed at a press conference in Washington in early April that the US government deliberately concealed the actual cost of the Gulf War in order to make up for domestic budget cuts with donations from the Allies.According to well-informed sources, if the contributions of all allied countries to the war are included, the net profit of the United States from the Gulf War may reach 19 billion US dollars. In the first few months of 1991, a large influx of foreign currency, cash payments from Germany alone amounted to $6.6 billion, putting enormous pressure on the appreciation of the dollar, which had fallen to a postwar low of 1.46 Deutschmark just a few weeks earlier.In addition, before the war was over, the United States had already begun to sign offensive weapons contracts with Middle Eastern countries, which seriously angered European arms manufacturers.

The Bush administration declared triumphantly that the United States has proven itself to be the most powerful country in the world.But unemployment is mounting at home, and Eastern European countries deny access to billions in Western funding to rebuild infrastructure and modernize their economies.In the face of these facts, Bush is obviously boasting. The combination of Operation Desert Storm and the rise in world oil prices of more than $30 a barrel in the late 1990s had a devastating effect on Eastern European economies.The increase in oil prices is due to the disruption of the transportation lines that export oil from Iraq.Before January 1991, Eastern European countries exchanged industrial and agricultural products for oil in Moscow through trade links with the Soviet Union in the form of barter trade. After January 1, the system changed, and they had to buy Russian oil in dollars.Iraq had promised Bulgaria, Hungary, and other countries in Eastern Europe to export oil worth more than one billion U.S. dollars. Because of the Gulf War, these promises could not be fulfilled.

In March 1990, the Italian magazine "30 Days" interviewed Miglio, an Italian professor with ties to Washington.Miglio told the magazine: The United States realized that in order to avoid a Soviet-style recession, it had to keep pace with potential competitors, including Japan and the continental European countries united around the economic power of Germany ... United States It is unacceptable that Europe is today, a continent that not only could run very happily without US participation, but would be far more economically and technologically stronger. For this reason, Miglio claimed, "the United States turned its attention to the Middle East, wanting to control the Arabian oil that both Japan and Germany could not do without."

In France, Edgar Pisani, Charles de Gaulle's former minister of agriculture, is director of the Center for Arab Culture (ZMA) in Paris.In an interview with a reporter from the German "Daily News" on February 18, he said: The bombing of Iraq was jointly carried out by aircraft from the United States, Britain and France. I don't expect this to be true.I am so shocked by the fact that a country is strong only because it has weapons.The United States is extremely difficult economically, but it tries every means to suppress Japan and Europe, just because the latter's military strength is weak.In order to maintain their own world order, all countries have to pay salaries to hire a world military police. Japan, Germany and oil exporting countries must also provide funds for this military police. How long will this situation last...

Clearly, the greatest irony of British-dominated balance-of-power politics came when German President Richard von Weizke told Berlin's Die Zeitung shortly after the Gulf War: The balance of power policy, but due to the misinterpretation of national socialism, and two world wars, our balance of power policy ended. Then came the era of the rule of the two superpowers.” von Weizke called on Europe to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity to finally put an end to this foolish notion of a balance of power, to realize "General de Gaulle's unfinished ideal of a complete Europe from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains."

Operation Desert Storm and the Bush-Thatcher Gulf War took an immeasurable toll on Iraq and its people, Kuwait, and the world economy, but there are signs that it has yet to achieve its main goal of reintegrating continental Europe into George • Bush and Margaret Thatcher's New World Order.