Soviet Union 1991

Update 6

When the scene at the UN General Assembly reached Yanaev's ears, the Kremlin master was not only angry, but also wanted to retaliate against Gaddafi's actions. Of course, the first thing he thought of was to tamper with the recent arms deal.

When conducting arms deals with Gaddafi before, the Soviet side always required 80% of the amount to be paid before being willing to deliver arms to Gaddafi. After this UN incident, Yanaev thought about how to harm the other party in the arms deal.

So a few days later, Chemezov, who was in charge of the Soviet Union's arms export department, received a special order from Yanaev to replace some of the genuine tanks with those obsolete defective T72 tanks, and then replace the brand new Kalashnikov rifles with second-hand firearms in the rifles and firearms. In this way, the arms originally worth hundreds of millions of yuan shrank a lot in an instant. If the Libyan military did not find any problems when inspecting the goods, then Yanayev successfully cheated them once. If they found problems, then the remaining 20% ​​of the balance would be regarded as Yanayev sending away beggars. Anyway, he has already made money back.

Of course, some people will wonder why they did not directly seize this batch of arms, so that Gaddafi, who has already paid, will lose more. However, Yanayev considered from another perspective that weapons with many faults would affect some key battles. The Soviet Union was paving the way for the government army to stab a knife in the future civil war in Libya, which was the real behind-the-scenes trick.

As for Yanayev, he would not worry about whether the Soviet Union’s interests in Libya would be damaged. After all, the Soviet Union now had no right to exploit Libya’s oil fields, and Gaddafi was also ready to turn to Western countries. It can be said that the cooperation between the Soviet Union and Libya has come to an end.

There is no longer any conflict of interest, so he does not care about letting Libya fall into chaos. In fact, a complex situation is more conducive to the political game of major powers. For the Soviet Union, it is far better for Libya to have trouble now than to be caught in war decades later.

Of course, this is still the first step for Yanaev to retaliate against Gaddafi. The second step is to contact the United States through the head of state hotline. Didn't President Mario always hope that the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council could unify their steps to jointly target Libya? In addition to the French who are trying hard to win over the Mediterranean countries and have always been uninterested in the Washington Consensus of the United States, the Soviet Union, whose attitude has always been erratic, has become the object of the United States's pursuit.

So when Yanaev took the initiative to talk to President Mario on the phone. The other party felt proud. The United States and the Soviet Union finally reached a consensus on certain issues.

"I am glad that we can reach the same consensus on an issue, President Yanaev." Mario, who was originally in a depressed mood, also became comfortable at this moment. Libya is very important to the United States in terms of strategic location. The political adviser of the US President has made an analysis of the Libyan incident.

Unless a country that threatens the United States can be dealt with, the unrest created in the Mediterranean region can further prevent the French from trying to break the balance of the situation on the European continent. The so-called European Union is not so set in stone. The old European powers France and Germany have been in constant conflict within the framework of the alliance.

Once a bomb is detonated in the Mediterranean, coupled with the unrest in Yugoslavia, the revival that European countries are trying to achieve will become a bubble. Mario just wants to let everyone know that the decline of the Soviet Union does not mean that you, France and Germany, have the opportunity to rise again.

But soon Mario couldn't laugh again. Because Yanayev's abandonment of aid is conditional, he doesn't want the Americans to get concessions from the Soviet Union for no reason. The Soviet Union proposed to exchange interests for interests, and the concession that the United States had to make was that the United Nations must weaken the no-fly zone established by the Southern Watch Operation of UN Resolution 668.

This was a private discussion between Yanayev and Saddam. Iraq could be a dog at the front and back of the horse, but he must have enough power to control his own territory and the army.

In April 1991, the UN Security Council passed a resolution 688, requiring Iraqi leader Saddam to end the oppression of the Iraqi people. However, Iraq ignored the warnings of the United Nations and continued to carry out military oppression against the Shiite jihadists in southern Iraq. Saddam Hussein did not choose to comply with the UN resolution.

So on August 26 last year, US President Bush announced that the UN military would begin to implement a no-fly mission south of the 32nd parallel north. The purpose of this action is to ensure that Iraq implements UN Resolution 668. In order to assist in the supervision of the operation, the coalition forces prohibited any Iraqi fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft from flying over the no-fly zone. After the president's statement, the US Central Command immediately established the Southwest Asia Joint Strike Force Command, whose mission was to command the coalition forces to monitor the no-fly zone. The operation was code-named Southern Watch. On August 27, 1992, less than 24 hours after the president's statement, the military operation was officially launched.

"It seems that the rumors are true." American agents have already grasped the clues of the chemical weapons transaction between the Soviet Union and Iraq, but they have been unable to find out due to the lack of actual evidence. Now Yanayev said this. It is equivalent to telling the US president in disguise that we have a special relationship with the Iraqis.

"It seems that there is indeed some unknown secret between the Soviet Union and Iraq. Is this to threaten Washington to give up the protection of its Arab allies?" President Mario asked tentatively.

"Give up allies? President Mario is really too serious. I just think Iraq is also an old customer of the Soviet Union. We don't want our customers to be harassed for a long time and unfairly, right? I didn't see any of the interests of the United States' allies being damaged, but I saw that my allies were treated unfairly. And it was on their own land."

"But everything has a price, doesn't it?" President Mario said sarcastically, "When Saddam made a military oppression against the Shiite *** in southern Iraq, he had to be prepared to accept our military strikes. After all, human rights have always been above sovereignty."

Yanaev heard President Mario's answer. He mocked, "Tsk tsk tsk, only you White House conspirators can speak so openly about violating the international order. Of course, our conditions are like this: if you reduce the scope of the no-fly zone, we will change from a neutral attitude to supporting your military suppression. This is just a deal." (To be continued.)