While the United Nations meeting was discussing the Middle East issue, Kissinger secretly visited Saudi Arabia and met King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, talking about the current golden opportunity to balance the unfair trade with imperialist powers, which is actually to deal with oil Make a price increase.

"You can directly initiate an embargo and then provide a list of pardons." Kissinger urged the start of the oil embargo to digest all the excess currency issued by the United States. This is what Rockefeller meant.

To say that Standard Oil and Saudi Arabia are old friends, and they are not unfamiliar with each other at all. The discovery of Saudi oil has a great relationship with the exploration of Standard Oil.

In fact, the Middle East at that time was the sphere of influence of Britain, and Britain discovered oil in Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran.

Of course, Britain will not miss Saudi Arabia, but oil was far less widely used than it is today. After Britain controlled the above-mentioned oil producing areas, it did not want to explore Saudi Arabia, because too much cheap oil may lead to a drop in oil prices. Harm the interests of BP.

After Saudi Arabia found the UK, the UK rejected the proposal to explore for oil in Saudi Arabia in order to protect oil prices. But unexpectedly, Saudi Arabia, which the United Kingdom missed, is precisely the lowest-cost oil-producing region.

After being rejected by the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia turned to cooperate with the United States. At that time, the main body of American oil exploration was Standard Oil Company of California. Standard Oil was the main industry of the Rockefeller family, but after being split by the old Roosevelt, it became more dispersion.

After World War II, two American oil companies took a stake in Standard Oil of California and changed its name to Arabian American Oil Company, which became Aramco. It can be said that the Saudi royal family has been acquainted with the Rockefeller family since the beginning, and has developed step by step to today.

"Other countries are easy to say, but the United Kingdom?" King Faisal certainly hopes that the interests of oil-producing countries will be higher, and he understands the purpose of the United States.

Hope 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 play the role of police in the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia is an ally that stabilizes the US economy.

In fact, Saudi Arabia’s oil has already been settled in US dollars, but as early as many years ago, the United Kingdom united some oil-producing countries to form a cartel alliance. King Faisal couldn't help it either, he even felt like he was living in the shadow of the British.

An oil embargo and then announcing an increase in oil prices is of course in the interests of oil-producing countries. King Faisal believes that other oil-producing countries will side with Saudi Arabia, but what if the UK is included? It may cause a backlash. Among other things, a bunch of emirates next to Saudi Arabia have British troops stationed there. The British army has also set up a military base in Musandam Province, which guards the Strait of Hormuz.

Not to mention this Middle East war, the United Kingdom is a weapon provider for at least three participating countries, and of course France is also. In addition to providing weapons for the Egyptian Air Force, France is also a supporter of Lebanon. It cannot be said that it has no influence at all 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 Feisal, even if Britain cannot be on an equal footing with the United States and the Soviet Union, it is not too far behind.

On the contrary, the United States, after losing to North Korea and Vietnam, will stand on Israel's side this time? Even if there is no loss at present, there is no tendency to win. It is very doubtful how much national strength it has.

"Don't worry about this. We understand the traditional relationship between Britain and Arabia." Of course, Kissinger would like to do something with Britain, but the matter is urgent now. The share will be destroyed once, and the United States will be submerged at the same time. It is necessary to find a place to digest the dollars in the international market.

Of course, Kissinger could not have known that the original historical Britain has been completely wiped out by this time, and it has no current power at all, and it is still the backing of half of the Arab countries participating in the war?

Since he didn’t know, Kissinger can only lament that the empire on which the sun never sets has such a rich legacy. Even without the Soviet Union, the United States would have needed decades to completely bring down the United Kingdom. , I can only think about it in my heart, unite all positions that can be united, and suppress the Soviet Union first.

The fierce battle between Israel and the Arab League was in full swing, and Saudi Arabia fired the first shot in the Arab world's counterattack, announcing an oil embargo on the grounds that Europe and the United States secretly supported 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, Arab oil-producing countries in the Middle East decided to reduce their oil production and An oil embargo was imposed on developed capitalist countries in Europe and America.

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. The increase in oil prices and the embargo immediately brought chaos to the economies of Western countries. Before the price increase, the price of oil was only three dollars per barrel.

The embargoed countries of course also include the United States, as well as Japan and South Korea in East Asia, but they do not include the UK in Europe, because the UK has indeed done what it can, and no one can say that the UK is from Israel, or from Europe and the United States. There was unprecedented chaos in society on this day.

The next day, exhausted and haggard, Nixon reappeared on television screens after a long absence. The nation watched as the historic figure offered his views on national affairs at a time when the world was going through a tragedy. Everyone feels devastated, yet they don't quite understand the enormity of this worldwide tragedy.

"United States of America," Nixon began to read the speech, stuttering a little because he couldn't concentrate. He continued: "America is going to have to impose the strictest restrictions on energy. It's never been done before. It didn't do that even during the world wars."

He outlined a series of proposed measures that will be brought before Congress: limiting the speed of vehicles on public roads to 80 kilometers an hour, reducing the heating temperature in all buildings, establishing a gasoline rationing plan, and so on.

In the chamber of "the most important parliament in the world," William Fulbright, the most popular senator in the United States Senate and chairman of the foreign affairs committee, asked to speak first.

Fulbright said something unusual in a dull voice at the meeting: "Dear colleagues, I should speak directly to you about my deepest thoughts. In today's world, the Arab oil-producing countries So little military power. They are like some timid duikers in a jungle infested with wild beasts. As friends we should remind them of that.

"If they do threaten the economic and social balance of the big industrial countries, especially the United States, they must take dire risks. Before it is too late, they must wake up to what their actions will bring to them Such a danger."

"The acting is quite similar." Alan Wilson put his arms around Pamela Mountbatten's delicate body, and sneered at the news of the oil embargo on TV and the statements of the US Congress, "Honey, it's outrageous, you know."

Looking at historical materials is completely different from experiencing historical events in person. Alan Wilson feels this way now. If the Arab League imposed an oil embargo on the United States in the Middle East war, that is nothing to say.

The United States is indeed standing firmly behind Israel. There have been rumors that Israeli-American pilots appeared on the battlefield and were shot down, but the United States did not admit it.

But why embargo Europe and China? Is it because European countries do not firmly support the Arab League?

This is outrageous, isn't it even neutral? Although European countries did not support the Arab League, they did not support Israel either. Why should they be embargoed by Arab oil-producing countries? People who don’t know think that the United States or the Soviet Union scare European countries~lightnovelpub.net~ But in fact, it is Saudi Arabia that embargoes Europe. Saudi Arabia is considered a weak country among Arab countries. It dares to threaten anyone.

Since it lost another man in Vietnam, it is definitely impossible for the United States to organize hundreds of thousands of troops to fight across the ocean. Even the conscription system has been changed. But dealing with a Saudi Arabia is still not beyond the capabilities of the United States.

"Indeed, the United States wants to use force, and Saudi Arabia really can't stand it." Pamela Mountbatten nodded, knowing that the United States' speech full of war threats would really be followed by action, Saudi Arabia would not dare to act like this, "What is Whitehall's response? Is it?"

"What should we do? The UK is an oil-producing country. Is North Sea Petroleum worth watching? It turns out that the cost of oil in the Middle East is low, so North Sea Petroleum has not increased its production capacity. Besides, the UK is not on the list of oil embargoes. We are from the Arab side. " Ellen Wilson pursed her lips, Pamela Mountbatten gave her husband a blank look, and leaned over to offer her red lips to the supreme authority.

After a lot of rhetoric, Alan Wilson continued, "It's really unlucky for Japan and South Korea, Europe and France should be fine, and other countries will definitely be in chaos for a while."

Even France should thank him for his contributions to France over the years, otherwise France will also be in a hurry this time around the oil embargo.

Soon, the oil embargo imposed by the Arab oil-producing countries showed its power, and the Japanese government responded first. It announced an "immediate 10 percent reduction in the supply of oil to the following industries: automobile manufacturing, iron and steel industry, electromechanical industry, aluminum smelting industry, cement industry, tire manufacturing, synthetic fibers, paper making, and petrochemicals." To deal with the oil crisis by means of quantitative oil supply.

Germany also responded quickly. Since the last weekend in October, the highway, which is usually notoriously crowded and busy, has become deserted because the government has banned vehicles from driving there.