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Who wants that mere 100 million Swiss kroner bonus!Hearing that Qusay was fooling him like this, Weber finally couldn't hold back: "President Qusay, let me reiterate that you need to end the current increase in production and return to normal production! This is very important for the development of the world economy, especially It is the most beneficial to safeguard the interests of all oil-producing countries. Now, the oil price in the world is too low. For us in the UK, it will seriously damage our British oil industry. This is malicious competition!"

"Really?" Qu Sai looked at the irritated guy, but what he said was so ridiculous. Do you think that you are still the empire that never falls from day to day?

"I just inspected our shipyard next to Saddam Port yesterday afternoon. Our shipyard has just started, and the cost of producing ships is very high. We have not received an order because your country's shipbuilding industry is very It is developed and produces a lot of ships with a large tonnage. This has seriously damaged our own shipbuilding industry in Iraq. In order to maintain all countries with shipbuilding industries, please reduce shipbuilding in your country and increase the selling price. You belong to the Malicious competition." Qu Sai said, these words are simply a replica of Weber's words.

"How is that possible? Our shipbuilding industry was developed by ourselves. The cost and selling price of ships are entirely our own domestic affairs. What does it have to do with Iraq? Why do you want us to reduce ship construction and increase the price ? This is meddling in our country's economy!" Weber almost shouted.

"Yes, for the same reason, our oil industry is our own, and the production and export of oil are controlled by ourselves, or in other words, it is coordinated by OPEC. What does this have to do with your country? Interfering in our country's economy!" Qusay said.

In an instant, Wei Bo's face became quite ugly. From the bottom of his heart, he really wanted to wave his sleeves at this moment. There was no way to negotiate with this person in front of him. However, thinking of the purpose of coming here, he still held back. Living.

"President Qusay, then, what exactly do you want to do to end this operation?" Weber asked.From the bottom of his heart, he felt that if the spy was used in exchange for an increase in oil prices, the British would grit their teeth and admit it.

Who knew that Qusay never mentioned the spy at all, because even if Qusay didn't mention that spy, the British would have to release him!That's just an additional offer.

"Recently, because of your country's diplomatic positioning, there has been a lot of friction with us in Iraq. I am very sorry about this." Qusay said: "Both of us need to be more sincere."

If someone else said that, Weber would still believe it, but if Qusay said it, he wouldn't believe it anymore, be more sincere?To hell!

Chapter 757 It's Disturbing to the Pond Fish

"What? President Qusay, it is impossible for us to agree to the conditions you raised. In this case, there is no need for negotiation between us!" Weber said.

Kusaiti's conditions were something Weber never thought of. The conditions he expected to be proposed by Kusaiti, as well as their response, were all useless.

Last time, the United Kingdom and the United States imposed an arms embargo on Iraq. Among them, the parts of the Hunting Precautions Project have been fully in place. However, the technical assistance and modification promised by the United Kingdom have not been implemented. They are paid for the work of these British personnel. The remuneration of 50 U.S. dollars and the 500 million U.S. dollars invested by Iraq in the sky flash project all need to be returned to Iraq by the British side, and Iraq will withdraw from the British sky flash project.

If you want to treat yourself as a winner, there is absolutely no way!Anyway, the United Kingdom has been kicked out, and the active sky flash research has been carried out with Sweden, and the project in the United Kingdom has been put aside in one step.

Secondly, the UK needs to stop its military cooperation with Israel, because Israel is a rogue country. It developed nuclear weapons in spite of the opposition of the whole world, and almost triggered another Middle East war. The military cooperation between the UK and Israel is in A real threat to Arab countries.

Third, in order to realize the friendship between the UK and Iraq, the UK should allow Iraqi funds to flow freely into the UK market. For example, they can hold stocks in various British companies, buy British companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy, and save their assets. Fate... No matter which one of these conditions it is, the UK will never agree to it. The British took the money for the sky flash project, but the money has already been spent in the development process. Where can they find 500 million? Will the dollar come back to plug this hole?The remuneration of the personnel who hunted the early warning machine was paid, but after those people returned to British Aerospace Corporation, there were no new projects and no profits, and the money was also paid to these technicians as wages.

In particular, the sky flash project was Iraqi who went to Sweden to intervene, and the British had already found out.

It is even more impossible to stop cooperation with Israel. Britain has always maintained a friendly relationship with Israel. For example, the establishment of Israel as a country has an inseparable relationship with Britain's support. (In the materials of later generations, some believe that Britain played a certain role in the development of nuclear weapons in Israel. For example, it once exported 10 mg of plutonium to Israel, although there is a big gap from the amount required by nuclear weapons , but, like an introduction, it can be used to accelerate important experiments in nuclear weapons projects.) Moreover, to stop military cooperation with Israel is simply interfering in the internal affairs of the UK, and the UK will never agree.

The last point, although seemingly nothing on the surface, is even more lethal, because it means that Iraqi funds can freely flow into the UK, buy the stocks of those companies, and even acquire those companies. Gold-colored countries are rich, and they have a lot of funds to buy British companies, which is simply fatal to Britain.

Therefore, when Weber heard what Qusay said, he immediately expressed that Britain would never agree to those conditions.

"President Qusay, if this is the case, our negotiations can only be terminated. I am very sorry that this negotiation broke down. The relationship between our two countries will fall to the lowest point. We will terminate all the negotiations with you. For all civil and military cooperation, we will sentence the spy, and we will make our own right choices on issues related to Iran and Israel." Weber felt that he did not have an advantage, but he You still have to show your cards. Don’t think that you can do such a despicable thing because of the low cost of oil. Britain also has means. For example, Iraq has not completely conquered Iran!

Want to intimidate yourself?He probably didn't know, but he was never afraid of being scared.

"I wish you the best of luck," Qusay said, "Also, we are about to start mining the newly discovered Missan oil field in southern my country with reserves of 25 billion barrels. After it goes into production, it will have a daily production capacity of 30 barrels."

Looking at the backs of the British going out, Qusay couldn't help but despise these people. The halo of the empire has already faded away. They will definitely not be able to bear it. They will come back to find their own in less than half a month. , when the time comes, these terms will be more than that.

This time Qusay seized the opportunity very well, because, in this event, the United States will not side with the United Kingdom!

The price cut will completely bankrupt the British oil industry and let the British know how powerful they are!

What Qu Sai didn't expect was that his actions made another country very depressed. This country is the Red Empire in the north!

As one of the only two superpowers in the world, the Soviet Union is so powerful that it will break through the Berlin Wall of Germany at any time and occupy the whole of Europe.However, such a military super powerful country has fallen into a huge vortex economically.

During the Brerìnev era, the Soviet Union made great progress, but in the later period of Brerìnev, the Soviet Union began to show a decline.

Facing this decline, the newly appointed Andropov started reforms, and his reforms have achieved certain results. However, Andropov's health failed and he unfortunately passed away last year.

After Andropov's death, Chernenko took over. The older Chernenko was just an excessive figure. Now, Chernenko's physical condition is also rapidly deteriorating. Eager to try, ready to step onto the new stage of history.

None of them saw that the economy of the Soviet Union, like those leaders, was deteriorating rapidly.

Economic Development and Trade Minister Nikolai Davidovich looked at his old partner, Oil Minister Fedor Viktorovich, and said: "Is it true that our current oil exports can no longer earn enough foreign exchange? ?

"Now, the international oil price has dropped to [-] dollars a barrel, we are only able to maintain the normal operation of our oil industry, if it was [-] dollars a barrel half a year ago, we would have enough income to fill the Europe borrowed debt," Fedor said.

Both were very worried.

The Soviet Union, this huge empire, can produce advanced aircraft and tanks, but it cannot satisfy the self-sufficiency of food!Every year, the country needs to spend a large amount of foreign exchange to import food from Western Europe.Domestically, the military expenditure is very large, so the economy of the Soviet Union has long been unable to make ends meet.

A huge empire actually had to rely on borrowing to survive, which made the two feel sad.Recall that ten years ago, the Soviet Union still had sufficient funds and gold reserves.At that time, the Soviet Union's important Tyumen oil field in western Siberia was the world's first-class oil field.In the fourth Middle East war, the Arab countries imposed an oil embargo on the United States and other Western countries, and the world oil price quadrupled.As a major energy exporter of European countries, the Soviet Union sold oil to the West and made a fortune.

At that time, the Soviet Union could use this part of the funds to improve the domestic economic situation, but almost all of the funds were invested in the military industry, especially when the Soviet Union launched the war in Afghanistan, which completely dragged the Soviet Union into an economic hole. bottomless pit.

Originally, last year, because of Israel's problems, the Arab countries imposed a new round of oil embargo on the West, which supported Israel. The Soviet oil industry took the opportunity to step up oil exports, which allowed its domestic economy to improve slightly. Originally, if the high price had been maintained, the Soviet Union could improve its seriously deteriorating economy and return part of the Paris Club's money.

However, at the end of 84, they began to be disappointed. As the major oil-producing countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and other countries continued to increase production, the price of world crude oil plummeted.

The Soviet Union's current source of foreign exchange is almost all dependent on exporting energy to survive. Now, oil is worthless, so the Soviet Union will not be able to earn foreign exchange. Now, I am afraid that it is not how to repay old debts, but how to borrow new debts problem.

The cost of oil extraction in the Soviet Union is also very high. Most of their oil is under the permafrost. It is not like the Middle East, where oil can be sprayed out from a hole in the ground, but no matter what, it is better than Is it easy for the UK to extract oil from the seabed?

However, the bureaucracy and waste in the Soviet Union were too serious, so their cost per barrel of mining was not much lower than that of the British, only about thirteen dollars per barrel. (In later generations, under the instigation of the United States, Saudi Arabia, a major oil-producing country, relied on a large amount of oil exports to lower the oil price to five or six dollars per barrel, making the Soviet Union lose its only source of foreign exchange. Conservatively estimated that the Soviet Union’s annual income will decrease by 2000 billion U.S. dollars .) "Those guys in the Middle East, what exactly do they want to do? Don't they know that if they do this, they will not benefit themselves?" Nicholas said dissatisfied.

"We should report our current situation to our superiors. Iraq has a lot of responsibility for the drop in world oil prices. Our Secretary Gorbachev is said to have a very friendly relationship with Iraq. In my opinion, it is better for us to report this situation to Gorbachev. Let Secretary Erbachev respond," Fedor said.

"Him?" Nicholas shook his head: "He is actively active now and is preparing to become the general secretary of the central government. He will never leave Moscow at this time and go to the Middle East to trouble those Arabs."

"Report, the personnel in charge of the military pension department have come up, please immediately allocate funds to pay the pensions for the wounded and dead soldiers from the Afghan battlefield that are one month in arrears."

The two of them immediately became dizzy, and another master who asked for money came!

Chapter 758 Fighting for the Top Position

When Volamir woke up from a coma, it was already a few days later. His armored vehicle was attacked by an anti-tank mine. The shock wave at the bottom tore through the weak chassis armor and took away the life of the five members of the armored vehicle. Life, only he managed to escape the danger, but a shrapnel hit his eyes.

The wound on the leg was healed in the Kabul hospital, but Vlamir's left eye lost its light forever.

Vlamir had to return to the Soviet Union from the front, because at this time he was no longer fit to fight.

According to Vlamir's situation, he should be able to retire from the army. However, he almost dedicated his entire life to the army. Andrei Pavlovich transferred him to the logistics post of the Kharkov military base in Ukraine, which is close to the Russian Republic and far from the western European front. It is an important logistics base of the Soviet Union.

However, Vlamir has been worrying about one thing all the time. His disability payment has never been paid out. Could it be that someone has embezzled it privately?

"Our current Soviet Union is at a standstill in all aspects. We have a large number of farms, but we cannot be self-sufficient in food. Our people even need to line up to buy bread. Our economic income can only rely on energy. All of this requires a firm leader to make our country strong again," Ligachev said.

Foreign Minister Gromyko listened to Ligachev's words and asked: "So, who do you think is the most suitable for this firm leader?"

"We have to feed the people first. Gorbachev, who was born as the Minister of Agriculture, has been actively carrying out reforms in recent years. Everyone has seen the results. Gorbachev is relatively young and can have enough food. I believe that Comrade Gorbachev will be able to undertake this task." Ligachev said.

Now, the old Chernenko was admitted to the hospital again. Chernenko was originally a transitional figure. Who will be the next general secretary is a question that many people care about.

The regime change in the Soviet Union is a comprehensive contest, mainly to see who can win over enough veterans, such as Gromyko and Ustinov in front of us!

Old guard Gromyko, as a front-line diplomat and current foreign minister, he has experienced the Stalin era, Malenkov era, Khrushchev era, Brerì Nev era, Andropov Husband era.As early as the Stalin era, he was favored by Stalin and served as the Soviet ambassador to the United States.If the current Chernenko is counted, Gromyko can be said to be the veteran of the Six Dynasties. Since he has been in the Politburo for many years, he has played an increasingly important role in policy planning. For example, in Andropov In the process of taking office with Chernenko, Gromyko fully supported him.