During the United Nations meeting in 1980, a surprising and hilarious scene happened.
At that time, it was the Cold War period when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony. The United States did not dare to openly confront the Soviet Union, but Gambia President Jammeh actually pointed at the nose of Soviet leader Brezhnev and shouted: Gambia The army swept across the Soviet Union in three days.
The Gambia, a small country in Africa with a land area of just over 11,000 square kilometers, not only challenged the Soviet Union many times, but also claimed to occupy China within one day.
said this, but he really dared to do it in action, but instead of sending troops to the Soviet Union and China, he directly swept the US Embassy in Gambia and made the United States miserable.
The Gambia is a strange country. Not only is it strange externally, but its internal regime change is also extremely strange. The rebels took 220,000 US dollars to gather six people and dared to attack the presidential palace, but the leader was shot dead as soon as the exchange of fire broke out.
A small country with a land shaped like a small earthworm, it is an eye-opener for the world...
"Invincible in the world"
Gambia, a small land, was historically a colony of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the second world The trend of national movements brought about by the World War also gave Gambians a little sense of independence. So after a struggle with the British, Gambia finally declared independence in 1965.
After independence, The Gambia ushered in a period of spring in terms of national unity and social stability.
The first president Jawara was a veterinarian by training. He had personally experienced the suffering of grassroots people and was determined to vigorously develop the economy.
However, after independence, Gambia no longer had financial assistance from the United Kingdom, and it seemed so at a loss in terms of economic development. It wanted money but not money, and it wanted talents but not talents.
Jawara has been working hard for many years but with no obvious results. This continuous backwardness has increasingly aroused public dissatisfaction, social conflicts have been intensified, and finally evolved into a large-scale conflict.
Jawara
In 1981, Jawara was invited by the United Kingdom to attend the wedding of the British royal family members. Just as Jawara was happily leaving the country and thinking about how to show his face in the United Kingdom and solicit some aid, domestic opposition The protesters suddenly launched a coup.
Thousands of rebels across Gambia instigated demonstrations and attacked the government. The country has no regular troops. There are only nearly 1,300 police officers, but nearly 500 people took off their police uniforms and joined the coup team.
When Jawara was enjoying the banquet, he suddenly heard that there was a fire in the backyard. He knew that even if he returned directly to the country, it would be in danger, so he diverted to the neighboring country Senegal that surrounded them on three sides, and asked the Senegalese leaders to send troops for assistance. .
With Senegal’s absolute geographical advantage over Gambia, it was not difficult to deal with the rebels in Gambia, but at first the Senegalese leaders were unwilling to help.
With his sharp tongue, Jawara talked to the other party about the truth that was so cold and bitter, and finally persuaded the other party to send troops. So with the help of Senegal, Jawara tried his best to finally win the battle. The rebellion was quelled.
This incident made Jawara realize the importance of the army, so he began to form a national army. After several years of hard work, the army began to take shape, with an armed force of several thousand people.
At this time, after rectifying the military, police and government departments, Jawara felt that he was more secure in his position, and he became more arrogant.
Small countries like The Gambia have always been the target of big countries competing to win over each other in the process of mutual competition. Therefore, The Gambia has been receiving aid from big countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union one after another.
But there is no free lunch in the world. While providing assistance, the Soviet Union also made various demands on the Gambian government, but Jawara was not willing to obey the Soviet Union's various demands.
The poorer and weaker a country is, the more it tends to be arrogant. Firstly, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. Secondly, there is no image worth maintaining at all, so it slowly becomes a habit to utter arrogance.
In 1985, the Soviet Union stopped aid to Gambia. On behalf of his nearly 1,000 troops, Jawara loudly declared that the Soviet Union would be defeated within seven days.
It was not surprising that Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, laughed it off, because as early as 1980 when the Soviet Union entered Afghanistan , it had already received death threats from The Gambia, and the Gambia, who was filled with righteous indignation at that time, The claimed time to defeat the Soviet Union was 3 days.
At that time, during a meeting at the United Nations , Jawara openly raised his middle finger to Soviet leader Brezhnev in front of representatives of many countries, expressing his deep disgrace for the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
He believed that the Soviet Union's military operations in Afghanistan were pure aggression, and threatened that if the Soviet troops did not stop advancing into Afghanistan, The Gambia would defeat the Soviet Union within three days.
Brezhnev scoffed at Javala's arrogant remarks and did not take them seriously at all.
Because it doesn’t take much thinking to figure out that The Gambia doesn’t even have decent ships or planes. It’s a big problem to transfer the only few hundred national troops out of the country to the Soviet Union, let alone to defeat the Soviet Union.
Brezhnev
In the eyes of Brezhnev, Jawara's arrogant remarks were like a joke. Although many representatives of the United Nations heard it, people automatically ignored it.
But this did not affect Jawara's arrogance at all. Five years later, in 1985, he once again issued harsh words to the Soviet Union, threatening to sweep across the entire Soviet Union within seven days.
The reason why there were four extra days compared to last time, some people said it was because they had learned a little humility, and some people said it was because they wanted to give the Soviet Union a few more days to consider surrender.
Jawara’s harsh words outside made many people in The Gambia become arrogant. However, the days of not having enough to eat lingered. Over time, no one believed Jawara’s claim that “our country is the best in the world”. Nonsense.
The people did not have enough to eat, but in order to brag, Jawara maintained an army of thousands of people and did not fight all year round.
Later, the army was no longer willing to accompany Jawara to dream of arrogance, because the army began to have enough to eat.
So in 1994, a sudden coup swept the capital Banjul. Jawara was sadly ousted, and the young military officer Jammeh succeeded him as president.
The president changed, and the country felt refreshed in a short period of time, but then it was a disaster again.
Jiamei
The new president, Jammeh, is young and vigorous. Externally, he still looks like he refuses to accept anyone. Domestically, he has overdeveloped the military, and all fiscal expenditures that could have been used for people's livelihood have been allocated to the military.
On the one hand, it is arrogant without any boundaries and dares to say harsh words to anyone. On the other hand, it has become accustomed to receiving assistance from other countries.
In this way, if anyone suddenly cuts off aid to Gambia, it will also arouse the hatred of Gambians. The United States, known as the world's powerful country, will suffer a dumb loss in this small country.
The Gambia also spoke harshly to the United States. The U.S. government did not tolerate it and directly stopped aiding it. This angered the Gambian army, and a group of people rushed into the U.S. Embassy , beating people, smashing things, and setting fires.
Jiamei
It stands to reason that the United States should send troops when encountering such a situation, but that would make the international community laugh at the United States as an elephant bullying a small ant .
Besides, The Gambia is so poor that it doesn’t even have important industrial or military facilities. The US military’s use of artillery is simply a waste of shells. Even if they send troops in, they can only fight guerrillas, so the Americans think about it and forget it.
In fact, after offending the United States, The Gambia also knew that it was in trouble, and accidentally put its rhetoric into action, which caused its own panic.
So in panic, Gambia formed a relationship with Taiwan, China, and colluded with Taiwan's independence forces in the process of seeking an alliance. It also claimed that if there was a war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, it would send troops to occupy China in one day.
Such a small country not only makes many people in the world wonder where the courage comes from to make them so confident.
A "little earthworm" on the land of Africa
As a small country in Africa, The Gambia not only has a small land area of just over 11,000 square kilometers, but it also seems so oppressed geographically. Except for the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the rest of the country It borders neighboring Senegal in three directions.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is Senegal that firmly surrounds Gambia on a small piece of land on the west coast of Africa.
It was the Dutch who first conquered the Gambia and Senegal. The locals were already living at a nearly primitive social level, with only sticks and spears in their hands. They could not defeat the Dutch who used firearms, and they had to surrender in the end. .
Later, a war broke out between capitalist countries, and this land was assigned to the victorious Britain as a colony.
The purpose of the British occupation of this land was nothing more than to use local resources and labor, but they were really not too interested in improving local living standards.
In addition, the locals have never seen anything good, and the British can satisfy them with a little benefit, so the demand of the locals has not been that strong.
Based on the above reasons, despite being ruled by capitalist countries like the United Kingdom for many years, the small country of The Gambia is still impoverished, and the people often have too much to eat.
For hundreds of years in history, The Gambia and a large area of surrounding land have been the "hunting grounds" where European colonists fought with each other and grabbed territory.
It was not until 1889 that Britain and France finally determined the national border between Gambia and neighboring Senegal after many negotiations.
The British colonized The Gambia, and the French colonized Senegal. Unfortunately, the British had a slight gap in strength compared with France at that time. Therefore, the Gambia was not only much smaller than Senegal, but was also semi-surrounded by Senegal.
has no place to vent his useless anger, so he can only lament sadly to the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
Even though there is some respite on the west coast, what is quite desolate is that the entire Gambia is a narrow land from east to west, with a total coastline of only 48 kilometers on the west coast.
Looking at the map, The Gambia's land looks like an earthworm burrowing into the land of Senegal, which is very embarrassing.
If a war breaks out between the two countries and Senegal attacks from three sides, Gambia will have no power to fight back.
But this is a country that deserves the sympathy of all countries in terms of strength, but it has never spared anyone in its fights with other countries.
The cramped land conditions and backward living environment prevent most Gambians from having any ambitious interests.
Looking at the land surrounded on three sides and the insecure compatriots, Gambian officials don’t know how to make this land rich. Coupled with the continued oppression of the British, Gambia’s development is even slower. Very pitiful.
But fortunately, the rule of the British gave these citizens some specious and general concepts about wealth.
After independence, the Gambia was first governed by its first leader Jawara from 1965 to 1994. Then the military figure Jammeh came to power in a coup and implemented a more militaristic ruling strategy.
.22 million US dollars plan to become president
Jammeh's high-pressure control policy on the military made a subordinate named Sanna increasingly dissatisfied. Once, Jammeh forced Sanna to shoot innocent people, which exceeded Sanna's bottom line as a human being, so Sanna After disobeying orders, Na fled overnight to the United States.
met Njie, an accomplished Gambian businessman in a sauna in the United States. Njie claimed that he was willing to pay to help Sanna overthrow Jammeh's regime, but the condition was that he would become the president if he succeeded.
Sauna readily agreed, so he took the US$220,000 sponsored by Enjie and mobilized hundreds of people to prepare to attack Jammeh's presidential palace to launch a coup. However, most of the people left before the action started.
Some said there was something going on at home, and some said they were sick. In the end, only six people followed the sauna.
They successfully approached the presidential palace. With Sanna's order, the operation began. However, sadly, Sanna was shot dead at the beginning of the exchange of fire. The others fled. The wealthy businessman Enjie's dream of becoming the president with 220,000 US dollars was shattered.
Although Enjie's presidential dream was shattered, it also gave other wealthy businessmen hope. Using money to defeat Jammeh seems to be a feasible way.
Barrow
Another wealthy businessman, Barrow, learned from Njie’s experience and did not go head-to-head with Jammeh’s army. Instead, he used money to win the support of various opposition parties and people in The Gambia, competed with Jammeh through legal elections, and finally succeeded in winning the election. In 2016, he defeated Jammeh and was elected as the new president of The Gambia.
Compared with the past two presidents who were not good at developing the economy but resorted to militarism and quarrels everywhere, Barrow, a wealthy businessman, paid more attention to developing the economy. Now The Gambia has finally found its own position and corrected its mentality, no longer asking for trouble everywhere. , but focus on improving yourself.
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