While the United Nations meeting was discussing the Middle East issue, Kissinger secretly visited Saudi Arabia and met with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to talk about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to balance unfair trade with the imperialist powers. In fact, it was about oil.
Make a price increase.
"You can directly initiate an embargo and then provide a pardon list." Kissinger urged the start of the oil embargo to absorb all the excessive currency issued by the United States. This was also what Rockefeller meant.
Standard Oil and Saudi Arabia are old friends and are no strangers to each other. The discovery of Saudi oil is closely related to the exploration of Standard Oil Company.
In fact, the Middle East at that time was the British sphere of influence. The British discovered oil in Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran.
Of course, Britain would not miss Saudi Arabia, but at that time, oil was far less widely used than it is today. After controlling the above-mentioned oil production areas, Britain did not want to explore Saudi Arabia because too much cheap oil might cause oil prices to drop.
harming BP's interests.
After Saudi Arabia found the UK, the UK rejected the proposal to explore oil in Saudi Arabia in order to protect oil prices. However, it did not expect that the Saudi Arabia that the UK missed happened to be the lowest-cost oil-producing area.
After being rejected by the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia turned to cooperation with the United States. At that time, the main body of American oil exploration was the California Standard Oil Company. Standard Oil was the main industry of the Rockefeller family. However, after it was split by Roosevelt, it became more
dispersion.
After World War II, two American oil companies bought shares in the California Standard Oil Company and changed its name to the Arab American Oil Company, which is Aramco. It can be said that the Saudi royal family was familiar with the Rockefeller family from the beginning, and it has developed step by step until today.
"What other country is there, the UK?" King Faisal certainly hopes that the interests of oil-producing countries will be higher, and he understands the purpose of the United States.
It hopes to increase the influence of the United States in the Middle East. Traditionally, the main player in the Middle East is the United Kingdom. The United States has three fulcrums in the Middle East. Israel and Iran serve as the police in the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia is an ally that stabilizes the U.S. economy.
In fact, Saudi Arabia's oil has been settled in US dollars for a long time, but many years ago, the United Kingdom united some oil-producing countries to form a cartel alliance. King Faisal had no choice but to live in the shadow of the British.
a feeling of.
Of course, it is in the interest of oil-producing countries to impose an oil embargo and then announce an increase in oil prices. King Faisal believes that other oil-producing countries will side with Saudi Arabia. But if the United Kingdom is included? It may cause a backlash. Otherwise,
Not to mention, British troops are stationed in a bunch of emirates next to Saudi Arabia, and the British army has also set up a military base in Musandam Province to guard the Strait of Hormuz.
Not to mention this time in the Middle East war, Britain was an arms supplier to at least three participating countries, and so was France. In addition to providing weapons to the Egyptian Air Force, France was also a supporter of Lebanon. It cannot be said that it has no influence in the Middle East.
In fact, in the eyes of many countries, Britain is still a well-known world power. In the eyes of King Faisal, even if Britain cannot be on an equal footing with the United States and the Soviet Union, it is not far behind.
On the contrary, the United States, after losing to North Korea and Vietnam, is siding with Israel this time? Even if it has not lost yet, it has no tendency to win. It is very questionable how much national power it has.
"Don't worry about this. We understand the traditional relationship between Britain and the Arabs." Kissinger certainly wants to do something to Britain, but things are urgent now. If the excess US dollars return to the United States, the United States will finally occupy the international currency settlement.
Its share will be destroyed in one fell swoop, and it will also submerge the United States. It is necessary to find a place for the US dollars in the international market to digest.
Of course Kissinger couldn't have known that Britain had been completely defeated by this time in history and had no power at all. How could it still support half of the Arab countries participating in the war?
Since he didn't know, Kissinger could only lament that the legacy of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets was so rich. Even without the Soviet Union, it would have taken decades for the United States to completely overthrow the United Kingdom. However, the Soviet Union was watching covetously and had the idea of overthrowing Britain and France.
, I can only think about it in my heart, uniting all the positions that can be united, and suppressing the Soviet Union first is the right thing to do.
The fierce battle between Israel and the Arab League was in full swing. Saudi Arabia fired the first shot of the Arab world's counterattack and announced an oil embargo on the grounds that Europe and the United States were secretly supporting Israel's war.
King Faisal declared that if Europe and the United States did not change their attitude of secretly supporting Israel, they would not get oil from the Arab world. As soon as the news came out, European and American countries were shocked. The next day, the Arab oil-producing countries in the Middle East decided to reduce oil production and
An oil embargo was imposed on developed capitalist countries in Europe and the United States.
Most of the oil used by major capitalist countries, especially Western Europe and Japan, comes from the Middle East, and a large part of the oil used by the United States also comes from the Middle East. Oil price increases and embargoes immediately caused chaos in the economies of Western countries. Before the price increase, oil prices
Only three dollars per barrel.
Of course, the embargoed countries also include the United States, as well as Japan and South Korea in East Asia, but it does not include the United Kingdom in Europe, because the United Kingdom has indeed done what it can. No one can say that the United Kingdom is from Israel or from Europe and the United States.
On this day, society experienced unprecedented chaos.
The next day, an exhausted and haggard Nixon appeared on the TV screen again after a long absence. The whole country watched this historic figure express his views on national affairs at a time when the world was experiencing a tragedy. Everyone was interested.
I felt shocked, but I didn't quite understand the seriousness of this worldwide tragedy.
"The United States of America," Nixon began to read from the speech. He stuttered a little because he couldn't concentrate. He continued: "The United States will have to impose the most severe restrictions on energy. This is unprecedented. Even in the world war
It has never done so during this period."
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heating temperature in the building, developing an oil rationing plan, etc.
In the conference hall of the "most important parliament in the world," William Fulbright, a well-respected senator in the U.S. Senate and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, first asked to speak.
Fulbright said some unusual words in a dull voice at the meeting: "Dear colleagues, I should speak frankly to you about my innermost thoughts. In today's world, the Arab oil-producing countries
They have only a tiny bit of military strength. They are like some timid little antelopes in a jungle infested by wild beasts. As friends, we should remind them of this.
"If they really threaten the economic and social balance of large industrial countries, especially the United States, they must take terrible risks. Before it is too late, they must clearly understand what their actions will incur for themselves.
Such danger."
"The acting is quite similar." Alan Wilson hugged Pamela Mountbatten's delicate body and sneered at the oil embargo news on TV and the stance of the U.S. Congress, "Honey, you know it's outrageous."
Reading historical data is completely different from experiencing historical events personally. This is how Alan Wilson feels now. If the Arab League imposed an oil embargo on the United States during the Middle East War, it would not be mentioned.
The United States indeed stands firmly behind Israel. There are already rumors that an Israeli-American pilot appeared on the battlefield and was shot down, but the United States has not admitted it.
But why is there an embargo on Europe and the United Arab Emirates? Is it because European countries do not firmly support the Arab League?
This is outrageous. Is it even impossible to be neutral? Although European countries do not support the Arab League, they do not support Israel. Why should they be subject to an oil embargo by Arab oil-producing countries? People who don’t know think it is the United States or the Soviet Union that is threatening them.
European countries, but in fact it is Saudi Arabia that imposes an embargo on Europe. Saudi Arabia is considered a weak country among Arab countries. Who does it dare to threaten?
Since it lost a handful of people in Vietnam, it is definitely impossible for the United States to organize hundreds of thousands of troops to fight across the ocean. It has even changed the conscription system. But it still does not exceed the ability of the United States to deal with a Saudi Arabia.
"Indeed, if the United States wants to use force, Saudi Arabia cannot stand it.
"Pamela Mountbatten nodded, knowing that the United States' speech full of war threats must be put into action, and Saudi Arabia would definitely not dare to act like this. "Does Whitehall have any response?"
"What should we deal with? The UK is an oil-producing country, so is North Sea oil just on the table? It turns out that the cost of oil in the Middle East is low, so North Sea oil has not increased its production capacity. Besides, the UK is not on the oil embargo list. We are from the Arab side.
." Alan Wilson pursed his lips, while Pamela Mountbatten rolled her eyes at her husband, leaned over and offered her red lips to the supreme authority.
After some bickering, Alan Wilson continued, "Japan and South Korea are really unlucky. Europe and France should be fine, but other countries will definitely be in chaos."
France should be grateful for his contributions to France over the years, otherwise France would be in a hurry this time around the oil embargo.
Soon, the oil embargo of the Arab oil-producing countries showed its power, and the Japanese government was the first to respond. It announced that it would "immediately reduce oil supply by 10% to the following industries: automobile manufacturing, steel industry, mechanical and electrical industry,
Aluminum smelting industry, cement industry, tire manufacturing, synthetic fiber, paper making and petrochemical industry". Adopt rationed oil supply to deal with the oil crisis.
Germany also reacted quickly. Starting from the last weekend of October, the famously crowded and busy highway became deserted because the government banned vehicles from driving there.