1. There are ugly and dark things happening in this world every day.
986 Swedish Prime Minister Orov Palme was innocently shot, South Korea's "Tianan Ship" was inexplicably sunk in 2010, and in 2012, several ministers who insisted on establishing the " China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Zone " died suddenly one by one. There are ugly and dark things happening in this world every day. Until now, there is no definite statement about the strange and absurd things mentioned above; but new events are happening constantly. For example:
On the evening of July 5 this year, Mohamed Balkindo, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, suddenly passed away in his hometown of Nigeria, and the cause of his death has remained unknown.
OPEC is the "Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries". Since each oil-producing Countries has its own interests, coupled with the "dollar oil", this organization has always been used by the United States. On the one hand, it has become a means for the United States to control oil prices, and on the other hand, it has become a group serving the interests of the United States.
By 2016, there were many internal contradictions in this organization and it was almost impossible to unify internal opinions. The United States has also taken advantage of the opportunity of high international oil prices to launch " shale oil " to open another money-making industry.
If shale oil occupy the market, the long-term interests of oil exporting countries will inevitably be lost; but the cost of shale oil extraction is very high. If the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries jointly reduces prices, the US shale oil will be driven out of the market.
At this time, Barkindo served as OPEC Secretary-General. He led OPEC to successfully resist the offensive of American shale oil manufacturers and survived the two crises in 2016 and 2020.
In addition, Baldokin and Russian President Putin have a good relationship. It is difficult to get Russia and ten non-OPEC countries directly joining OPEC, so he established the "OPEC+" alliance, which is equivalent to expanding the OPEC organization.
After the "Russia-Ukraine War", energy prices soared. In order to curb oil prices, the United States strongly demanded that OPEC coordinate with countries to increase crude oil production and suppress prices. In order to increase production by OPEC's major countries, Saudi Arabia, , US President Biden, , also plans to visit Saudi Arabia from July 13 to 16.
is obvious, increasing production is not in the interests of OPEC countries, so Barkindo firmly disagrees with doing this, because the rise in oil prices is a matter of the United States, and OPEC countries should not be allowed to pay; at the same time, they also plan to "reduce production."
So, before Biden began to access Middle East , Baldokin died, and the reason for his death was unknown.
2. The history of the Middle East is the most complex.
. The Middle East is located in the middle of Eurasian and named it "Middle East". From the perspective of Europe, they call the eastern Asia "Far East"; Afghanistan . To the west of Iran, Mediterranean east of the east coast of is called the "Middle East"; and eastern coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean and southwestern Asia are called " Near East ".
Around about 3500 BC, a civilization using "cuneiform" appeared in the Tigris River and Euphrates River (now Iraq). This is the "Two River civilization" of the Yellow-sex Sumerian nation.
There are many different nomadic peoples living around this civilization. These nomadic peoples are almost all Indo-European races, including " Semitic , Hittite , Aryan ", etc. They continue to invade the Sumerians, causing turmoil in the Middle East for thousands of years.
has fought for more than a thousand years, and the Middle East has basically formed a three-legged situation of Hittite Empire, Egyptian Empire, , and Assyrian Empire. The Hittite Empire is in the north, now in Syria and Asia Minor; the Assyrian Empire is in the original Mesopotamian region and the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.
The three empires continue to fight, especially the Hittite Empire and the Egyptian Empire fight more frequently and cruelly; and the Semites are also constantly split: those who look for better lands everywhere become Jews, those who stay in the Middle East desert become the current Arabs .
, as well as Hebrews, Phoenicians, etc., are all branches of the Semites. At that time, the Middle East was lively and relatively developed. The Hebrews wandered around, the Phoenicians were good at sailing, and the Aramis invented alphabetical characters...
The Jews made the greatest contribution in religion. They themselves insisted on " Judaism ", while "Christianity" and " Islam " actually originated from Judaism. So, no matter how many religions fight, they have deep feelings for the holy city of Jerusalem.
Asyrian Empire is the best at doing business and the most prosperous culture. Until now, the palaces, temples and other buildings of the Assyrian period discovered in various parts of the Middle East are amazing; and their religious myths, artistic works, astronomy, medicine, etc. are also valuable materials for human civilization.
Highest Assyrian Empire
In 612 BC, the Assyrian Empire fell, and the Kingdom of Babylon and the Kingdom of Medes replaced it; in 550 BC, Cyrus II led Persians launched an uprising on the Persian plateau, destroyed the Kingdom of Medes, and established Persian Empire .
The Persian Empire has been fighting wars from its establishment to its demise, especially the " Persian War " between Greece and , which is a battle between two cultures and two religions.
The larger the Persian Empire, the larger the scope, almost unifying the Middle East; they fought eastward to the Indus River basin and southwest to the Egypt ; if it weren't for Greece blocking, Europe would have been defeated by them.
The Macedonian Empire split and collapsed, The Roman Empire rose, and Europe and the Middle East began a confrontation between the thousand-year-old Roman Empire and various regimes in the Middle East dominated by Persians. The reason why it is said to be "Persians as the main one" is that the Persian Empire has long been destroyed.
In fact, in the Middle East, Persians mainly lived on the Persian plateau, and the unique geographical environment created the Persians' fighting and good at fighting;
Persians
and the Arabs living in desert areas were no less. They wielded the full moon scimitar and cut them everywhere, which was also very strong. The territory of the Eastern Roman Empire was getting smaller and smaller, and in the end there was only a little place like Byzantine Empire ; and the powerful Persians were also pressed tightly on the Persian plateau by the Arabs and could not move.
The Arabs established their own "Arab Empire" in the Middle East, laying the cultural foundation of the Arab nation, and spreading Islam to many places; The Arab Empire in 626 years, experienced the four major caliphs, the Umayyad Dynasty, and the Abbasid Dynasty. In 1258 AD, the Arab Empire perished.
During its peak period, the Arab Empire started from the Indus River and the Palaciole in the east, reached the Atlantic coast in the west, reached the Caucasus Mountains, Caspian Sea and southern France in the north, and ended at the Arabian Sea and the Sahara Desert in the south, with a land area of 13.4 million square kilometers. It is the empire with the longest span of the East and the West in history, and its territory covers the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa.
Arab Empire
So, although the Arab Empire was destroyed, the pride of the Arabs, the culture and traditions of the Arabs, the Islamic civilization of the Arabs, etc. have been integrated into the blood of the Arabs, and no one can destroy them.
After the demise of the Arab Empire, the Ottomans established by the Turkic nomadic tribes of Central Asia, Ottoman Empire was the last great empire in history to unify the Middle East; in 1453, they destroyed the Byzantine Empire, established the capital of Constantinople (Istanbul), and regarded themselves as "the heir to the Roman Empire", which made Europe and Russia roll their eyes at them.
The Ottoman Empire was once very strong, and they almost regarded the Mediterranean as their own Nehu; did the powerful army rob Europe and captured the white Europeans back as slaves, forming a huge slave trade at one time.
white slave market
Because the Ottoman Empire cut off the channels for trade between the East and the West, monopolized the trade of luxury goods such as Oriental porcelain and silk; they ordered prices to the point where even the European royal family could not afford it, forcing Europeans to find ways to find a way to trade with the East from the sea, setting off a wave of sailing.
The territory of the Ottoman Empire during its heyday also spanned the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa. Most of the Middle East, North Africa and The current European powder barrel Balkan Peninsula are both imperial territories;
The Ottoman Empire is at the intersection of East and West civilizations, and it also guards the throat of East and West exchanges. As the empire continues to expand outward, Islam is also brought to all parts of the world. If Spain hadn't been obsessed with , the Strait of Gibraltar, , and Europe would have long been full of dome churches, just like the Middle East.
Spain blocked Muslims from entering Europe
3. The Ottoman Empire split, forming the current Middle East
The Ottoman Empire was forcibly divided at the Paris Peace Conference. After the division, the current Middle East and Balkans formed. Many countries became independent. In Eastern Europe, there were Turkey , Hungary, Bulgaria ; the Balkans had Albania ; there were Albania in Albania in the Balkans. l4, Serbia , Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Greece;
Middle East is Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait , Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar , Bahrain , Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia , Algeria , Morocco and other countries.
Britain intervened in the Middle East before World War I. They built forces within the Arabs and provided them with funds mainly to fight the Ottoman Empire.
The British plan also paid off. In fact, the first , the first just ended, and the relationship between the Arab countries and the United Kingdom was very good, which was a foundation laid during the first tide.
Arab Lawrence
Originally, the Arabs hoped that Britain could help them establish a unified Arab country, but the British did not do so. What they were best at was dividing and conquering it; in the end, many Arab countries formed in the Middle East, and each country had a good relationship with the United Kingdom.
In fact, before oil was discovered, the Arabs had to suffer as much as they were in the Middle East. Riding camels around looking for water is a kind of tribal life. In 1908, the British discovered oil in the Iran region, and the Middle East entered the sight of various powerful countries.
The UK has a strong influence in Saudi Arabia. They felt that Saudi Arabia should also use it, so they kept looking for oil in the desert. After searching for decades, the war was over but still failed to find it, and the British gave up.
After the British left, the Americans entered Saudi Arabia and continued to search. It was not until 1938 that they found oil. Everything in Saudi Arabia changed; on January 18, 1943, the United States and Saudi Arabia officially established diplomatic relations;
945, as soon as World War II ended, US President Roosevelt met with Saudi Arabia's founding monarch Abdul Aziz on the US warship in the Suez Canal . The United States regards the Middle East as its strategic focus, and Saudi Arabia is an important stronghold in the Middle East. In fact, until the end of Cold War , the United States' control over the Middle East was relatively successful: Saudi oil exports were settled in US dollars, and the United States gave Saudi Arabia security protection.
In order to control the Middle East, the United States provides security protection in the Middle East while creating unsafe situations, making the Middle East countries inseparable from the United States; and the most important country among them is Israel.
Israel has two biggest roles in the Middle East in the United States: one is to separate the Middle East from the Suez Canal and keep the Middle East oil transportation channels firmly in its own hands; the other is to look at the countries in the Middle East, don’t forget that Israel is the only country in the Middle East with nuclear bombs.
4. The Cold War ended, everything changed
After the Cold War ended, everything changed. In order to promote its unipolar hegemony in the world, the United States almost defeated the Middle East; when artillery fire in the Middle East was flying, the United States' weapons had a market.
The Arab Spring, Kurdish and Houthi armed forces, Israel’s continuous compression of Palestinian regions, the chaos in Syria, etc., all make Arab countries feel insecure;
, especially Saudi Arabia, are deeply hurt, and they are also worried about when the United States will overturn its regime. The United States is very good at doing such things, and the "Reporter incident" has been a real subversion.
In 2014, the US shale oil revolution was a watershed in the "US-Saudi relations". Saudi Arabia is a resource-rich country, and oil is the lifeblood. The breakthrough technology of shale oil extraction carried out by the United States has brought shale oil output to an average of 8.7 million barrels per day, accounting for about 80% of Saudi Arabia.
In order to escort its own shale oil, the United States has greatly compressed OPEC's national output and significantly increased US shale oil exports. The United States' practice of disregarding the economic lifeline of Middle Eastern countries has made countries that have always followed the United States very heartbroken.
In order to grasp the oil market, Saudi Arabia and OPEC countries increased their oil production on a large scale in 2020, triggering a collapse in global oil prices and severely hit US shale oil companies with high mining costs.
The most important thing is that Saudi Arabia is a resource-based country, and oil is a non-renewable resource; while the United States itself has a large amount of oil, and in fact the two countries are in a competitive relationship.
From the perspective of future development, Saudi Arabia can no longer obey the United States as it used to. The security issue is not something that the United States can only provide, nor is it only the United States can provide; the United States cannot give Saudi Arabia development issues. Looking at the world, there is only one big country that can help Saudi Arabia transform.
So, the current situation is actually very simple. After all, the Arabs have the foundation of a thousand-year-old civilization and the glory of the Arab Empire. They can see it clearly.
