Speaking of Saddam Hussein, the middle Eastern tyrant, everyone should know that he was the former president of Iraq, and once he took office, he strengthened his relations with the Soviet Union, buying hundreds of fighter jets and thousands of tanks with the Soviet Union. During his tenure, he vigorously developed oil resources, allowing Iraq to go from poverty to prosperity. It was the first country to become a rich and oily country in the Middle East. Not for years. Under Saddam Hussein's leadership, Iraq's comprehensive strength became strong, once ranking 4th in the world.
When Iraq's military power rose, it was due to its long-term territorial, religious, resource disputes, and so on. A fight with Iran is 8 years. It is said that once the cannon is fired, the gold is ten thousand. Indeed, in the Iran-Iraq War, both sides suffered huge attrition and heavy losses. To sustain the fighting, Saddam Hussein owes a large amount of foreign debt, the most of which is borrowed from Kuwait, at more than $20 billion.
After the end of the Iran-Iraq War, in order to repay the foreign debt as soon as possible and resume national construction. Saddam Hussein was thinking twice, and he proposed to Kuwait to reduce oil production and raise prices, and even wanted to use other currencies to replace the dollar, which undoubtedly deeply touched the overall economic interests of the United States in the Middle East.
At that time, Kuwait rejected Saddam Hussein's proposal, and the angry Saddam Hussein, in the face of the weak Kuwait, suddenly paid attention to not only did not have to pay back, but also took a lot of oil resources, that is, to turn Kuwait into a part of its territory. To this end, hundreds of thousands of troops were gathered and attacked Kuwait. Within a day, Kuwait was occupied.
When the United States heard that Iraq was trying to shake up its interests in the Middle East, it used this excuse to attack Iraq, calling on a large number of allies to participate in the war, and the Gulf War broke out. It took the United States 42 days to beat up a million-strong Iraq. Saddam's behavior made the United States uneasy, and not long after, he found a small tube of washing powder, falsely claiming that it was a biological and chemical weapon, attacked Iraq, and the Iraq War broke out.
There is no doubt that in the face of the US military with nuclear aircraft carriers, warplanes, advanced missiles. Saddam Hussein was soon defeated. Helplessly, he fled in frustration. What makes people wonder is how the 800 advanced fighters in the Iraqi army at that time did not appear on the battlefield to deal with the US military? At least it can resist for a while? This question was not answered until the end of the war.
It turned out that these fighters were buried in the desert by Saddam Hussein, and finally became the spoils of war for the US army, why did he do this?
American experts have analyzed that Saddam Hussein's plan is very clever, has a long-term vision, and can be described as well-intentioned. After the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein knew that he was not an opponent of the US military, so when the US military attacked Iraq, he considered more about the rise after the war, so he did his best to retain his strength, buried the fighters in the desert, and also reduced hundreds of thousands of troops to pieces, so that they became civilians. When he returns, think long-term.
But Saddam Hussein never expected that not long after he escaped, he was betrayed by the people around him, captured by the US army, and tortured for 3 years, and finally the US military ended his legendary life with a rope, from then on, the Middle East lacked a tyrant, and the United States lacked a meat thorn. Iraq has become a war-torn region. This time Saddam Really miscalculated.