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Text 690 Libya

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    The incident that prompted the United States to open a new battlefield came from Libyan leader Gaddafi's inexplicable announcement to join the SCO camp.  At the beginning of the war, several North African countries were neutral, especially several oil-producing countries, and they took advantage of this opportunity to make great profits.  However, Egypt later joined the SCO and helped the SCO control the Suez Canal, thus greatly weakening the strategic influence of the US military.

    Gaddafi¡¯s ¡°surrender¡± is quite strange to Qi Yiming.  Libyan oil is selling well, but at this juncture, it does not sell to Western oil. Instead, it uses its own modest wealth to raise the banner of the SCO and demands to join the SCO.

    What makes the SCO Council even more dumbfounded is that Gaddafi did not say hello to them before surrendering. The so-called joining of the SCO was just something he said to himself and was not approved by the SCO Council.  Not only that, Gaddafi also said in his speech that the North African countries Algeria and Morocco should no longer remain neutral for the sake of economic interests. The evil international order established by the West has reached the point of collapse, and everyone should actively join the side of justice.  , and create a more fair and just international order.  Algeria and other countries should start by stopping selling oil to Western countries.

    Although several North African countries have not expressed their stance, this has hit the United States and other NATO allies in the foot. Their energy sources are already quite limited. If Libya causes such a trouble again, Europe may  Allied tanks really won't have any diesel to burn, and US military planes may not be able to fly to China at all.

    The current international oil price has become two parts, one is the oil price that still bears the name of international oil price, which is actually the oil price of Western countries and other neutral countries, and the other is the internal price of the SCO member states.  The former has already exceeded 20 US dollars per barrel, while the latter is only 18 yuan per barrel, equivalent to only 46 yuan in US dollars.  Naturally, because of the war, the exchange rate between the new RMB and the U.S. dollar was temporarily suspended. After the war began, China has continued multiple rounds of selling off its U.S. debt holdings. In addition, the strength of the U.S. dollar's link to oil has plummeted, so the U.S. dollar has depreciated very seriously.  .  However, this depreciation is unlikely to be reflected, because the official exchange rate between the new renminbi and the US dollar no longer exists.

    On the one hand, NATO has almost lost its hair because of oil. On the other hand, the SCO owns several major oil and gas fields in Siberia, the South China Sea, and the Middle East. Moreover, China also masters shale gas extraction technology and the world's largest Sichuan shale.  Gas and oil fields.  Not to mention, China is already promoting a fusion electrified society as a whole, and its dependence on oil is far less than that of the United States and Europe.  In fact, China is already developing electric-driven main battle tanks and even plans to equip drones with batteries.

    Libya's surrender to the SCO, regardless of whether it is SCO or not, has already worsened the energy security environment that has embarrassed the United States and NATO, so much so that George W. Bush did not hesitate to propose a punitive war against Gaddafi to ensure that North African oil can still be  Shipping to Europe and the United States.

    On this issue, France is very supportive of the United States, and even the French Foreign Legion is ready to go, preparing to enter Libya with the Italian and Spanish troops, plus the US Marine Corps expeditionary force, to beat Gaddafi into a sieve.  and access to Libyan oil.

    Rumsfeld also believed: "Occupying Libya will not only attack the crooked minds of those countries that are ready to join us in the opposite direction, but also protect our important oil sources. It is also a form of surveillance and control for countries such as Algeria. More  What is meaningful is that we will gain a window of threat to Egypt. If the timing and power are right, we can march into Egypt. While obtaining Egyptian oil, we will also control the important waterway of the Suez Canal. The window of the Middle East is once again open to us.  has opened, and the window of the Indian Ocean has opened for us again.¡±

    It was under this circumstance that NATO insisted on opening up the North African battlefield, regardless of the fact that the situation on the European battlefield had become increasingly severe, and both sides invested more and more troops.  Without interference from outside forces, NATO carried out a simple bombing of Libya. The French Foreign Legion and the US Marine Corps successfully landed in Tripoli and occupied this famous Libyan city.

    On the one hand, Gaddafi called on his troops to resist the invaders, and on the other hand, he shamelessly requested support from the SCO Council as an "SCO ally".  Based on the concept that if NATO is unhappy, the SCO will be happy, the SCO Council still pinched its nose and recognized Gaddafi's surrender, and organized the Egyptian and Sudanese troops to coordinate with an urgently arrived Chinese Red Alert Express  Counter-forces entered Libya to assist Gaddafi in counterattacking NATO allies.

    Compared with the grand scenes in the European and Pacific theaters, the intensity of the North African battlefield is relatively low. China only sent one fighter division to cooperate with the air force of Saudi Arabia and Egypt to fight against the air force of the four allies of the United States, France, Italy and Spain.  In the competition of ground troops, the total strength of the four NATO countries does not exceed 100,000, while the army strength of Libya, Egypt, Sudan and China is only about 20,000.

    The war in North Africa, among other thingsThe degree of mechanization is also the highest. Both NATO and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization have dispatched the most heavily equipped troops. The flat terrain of the desert is also conducive to the operation of these war machines.  In order to effectively counter China's powerful Type 99, the U.S. military specially provided the latest model of the U.S. general-purpose Nl main battle tank to the NATO allies.  In fact, there is still a certain gap between this type of main battle tank and the 99AU and 99A7 models in terms of various performances, but this gap is no longer that big, and situations of mutual victory and defeat began to appear in the war.  In particular, the VT-l tank equipped by the Shanghai Cooperation Alliance is still inferior to the Nl, and only the VT4 can effectively compete. Therefore, in armored combat, there was not the one-sidedness expected by the Chinese pLAf, but a relatively anxious battle situation.

    On the Libyan battlefield, the SCO and NATO engaged in repeated battles for some cities and strongholds. Both sides simultaneously dispatched relatively large-scale armored forces and a large number of army aviation for cover. NATO controlled some cities on the northwest coast of Libya.  After that, the operation to go deep into Libya to seize oil production areas was blocked by the SCO coalition forces.  The two sides fought many battles around several large oil fields, with each side winning and losing, and both sides suffered certain losses.

    Faced with this situation, NATO intends to continue to increase its troops, because they have finally not seen the kind of collapse of their own side in the battlefields of India or South Africa. The Allies fought fairly vigorously, but at this time another thing hindered them  Operation to increase troops in Libya.
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