Since ancient times, it is natural to owe debts and repay money, but there is such a person, in order not to repay the debt, he directly beat the creditor, which is why in 1990, the Iraqi president suddenly attacked Kuwait, but in fact, the real culprit is the United States.
From the end of World War II, Iran and Iraq have been in a state of tension for various reasons, until 1979, when relations between the United States and Iran deteriorated, and after Iran changed its latest leader, Iran's political situation also began to be unstable, and it was at this time that Saddam Hussein took advantage of the chaos to launch an armed attack on Iran.
At the beginning, Iraq did have the advantage, and as a result, by 1982, many Arab countries began to secretly contact this war, so that Iraq's advantages that had been so hard to fight in the previous two years were gradually lost, and even let the entire war fall into a stalemate, forced by helplessness, these Arab countries after 6 years of confrontation, the two Iraq found that they were really exhausted, so they decided to withdraw their troops to truce.
In this eight-year war, both Iraq and Iraq suffered a lot of losses, iraq in the war killed and wounded more than 400,000 people, lost nearly 35 million US dollars in military spending, so after the war, Iraq's economy has been greatly affected. And in these 8 years, in order to win the war against Iran, Iraq actually signed a $14 billion national debt to Kuwait, and even if the war is over, this money is still a very huge expenditure for Iraq.
In order to reduce the burden on the government after the war, Saddam Hussein sent people to Kuwait many times to negotiate with the other government, hoping that they could reduce oil production and raise oil prices, so that Iraq could recover its economy in an instant, and it was not a problem to return the $14 billion of foreign debt. However, Kuwait did not follow his ideas, the other side not only refused Saddam Hussein's request, and even the following year, Kuwait directly increased the domestic oil production, resulting in a decline in international oil prices, so that Iraq's debt crisis was even more serious.
At this time, Saddam Hussein was already very angry, thinking that Kuwait was not obviously toasting and not eating the penalty wine? Looking at the economic powers such as the United States and the Soviet Union, the land area is also very large, then why can't the Arab nation be a unified big country? At that time, although the Iran-Iraq war had been suspended, it did not mean that there would be no more war in the future, and if the two Iraqs were reunified, wouldn't Kuwait also have to be taken? Therefore, this attack on Kuwait is also a matter of time, and now Kuwait does not know the height of the sky, and if the attack is in the pocket early, won't the huge debt disappear out of thin air?
Moreover, in the previous 8 years of iran-Iraq war, Iraq accidentally lost the port of foreign transportation in the Persian Gulf, resulting in Iraq losing the ability to export abroad, and Kuwait's geographical location is simply fantastic, superior to the port lost by Iraq, if it is doing foreign trade, it is very convenient, so take Kuwait can take that port, then don't say that huge debts do not have to be repaid, economic recovery that is not a matter of minutes?
In this way, Iraq's attack on Kuwait seems to be indeed the best of three things, not only without having to repay debts, but also developing the economy and unifying Kuwait in advance. Saddam Hussein's abacus here is so loud that he is waiting to get rich by doing this vote, but now he is worried about whether the United States will intervene in this matter.
So on July 25, Saddam Hussein urgently summoned the US ambassador to Iraq, Grasspi, to see through Grasspi the attitude of the United States to this matter. After meeting Grasspi, Saddam Hussein did not directly talk about his attack on Kuwait, but began to tell the other side how Kuwait violated Iraq's interests, and after saying that, he wanted to seek the opinion of the other side.
Who is the ambassador to foreign countries, he must understand Saddam's meaning, and when he sees that he has been scratching his boots for half a day, he is not going to go around the right topic, so Grasspi is the same as him, going around is not talking about the point. Looking at Saddam Hussein's impatient look, Grasspi began to say that she had no opinion on the conflict between the United States and Arab countries, and THAT US President George H.W. Bush was very willing to maintain friendly and cooperative relations with Iraq!
Saddam Hussein was overjoyed to hear these two sentences, which mean that whatever happens in your Arab countries has nothing to do with us, but Iraq is more important to the United States, at least more important than Kuwait. Doesn't this mean that if he attacks Kuwait with Iraq, the United States will not intervene? This attitude was exactly what Saddam Wanted to hear, so from the end of this conversation, Old Sa was even more determined to attack Kuwait!
Soon after, Saddam Hussein assembled a force of 200,000 soldiers and 2,000 tanks, and by August 2, he began to attack Kuwait City. With its own thunderous means, the small and unsuspecting country of Kuwait was defeated and occupied by Iraq after 12 hours, while the Kuwaiti royal family fled to Saudi Arabia after being attacked. After Saddam Hussein saw that Kuwait was so weak, he proudly announced that he was going to annex Kuwait, and this news spread from the Middle East to the world, and countless news media attacked Lao Sa's crazy behavior.
Bush Sr. was even more surprised, who gave him the courage to let him do this! Isn't this a flagrant violation of international law? So the fifteen members of the UN Security Council voted and reached four agreements: condemning Iraq's actions, demanding withdrawal, and a negotiated settlement between Iraq and Kuwait. At this time, Saddam Hussein understood that he had been pit by Grasspi, to be precise, by the United States, after all, an ambassador to abroad did not have so much power. Soon, the soviet union and the United States superpowers expressed the same view, that is, to withdraw Saddam Hussein's troops and restore Kuwait's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
This made Saddam Hussein finally see clearly that he was pit by the United States, and after the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union issued a statement, it seemed that Saddam Hussein's situation was even more difficult, but these 200,000 troops and 2,000 tanks could not come out in vain.
Seeing that Saddam Hussein's attitude was so tough, the elder Bush decided to give him some color to see, on August 7th and 8th, the elder Bush successively sent two F15 combat squadrons and 82nd airborne divisions to the US military base in Saudi Arabia, although there was no substantive attack, but this was a warning to the old Sa: You are interested in retreating quickly, otherwise I can beat you! Lao Sa was also aware of the actions of the US army, but he was still unwilling to back down, and even intensified his declaration that Kuwait was their 19th province in Iraq!
In fact, Saddam Hussein did not want to back down at all, he just wanted to add some chips to the subsequent negotiations, so he also took some Westerners and tourists working in Iraq and Kuwait as hostages. He felt that in this way, he could also be regarded as holding the "handle" of the West in his hand, and he did not dare to mess around with the West.
However, Lao Sa's behavior successfully angered the United States, and even more made the United Nations very angry, where do you put my United Nations? So, in the months that followed, the United Nations adopted 12 resolutions, mainly to strongly condemn Iraq's actions, and on November 29, another resolution was adopted: the use of force against Iraq! Since this time, Iraq has begun to suffer from all-round sanctions and suppression, January 15, 1991, is the deadline for Iraq's withdrawal, if Saddam Hussein does not withdraw troops, the United Nations will send troops, of course, at this time, the sky where Lao Sa is located has begun to "warm up", but even so, he still does not retreat.
So, as soon as the deadline expired, the United States led the United Nations to launch Operation Desert Storm, which lasted for 40 days, and the number of Iraqi casualties reached 100,000, while the United States only suffered 933 casualties, and the United States won a complete victory. Kuwait has also been quickly restored, and Iraq has been even more miserable in this war, suffering from decade-long sanctions by the United States, and the economic situation is far less than it was after the end of the Iran-Iraq War.
Therefore, why Iraq would attack Kuwait that year, in addition to his own desire to occupy Kuwait and want to develop the economy faster, the most important thing is that the United States gave him confidence and made him feel that the United States would not intervene in his action. He would never have imagined that after he insisted on attacking Kuwait, it would end up being a high-tech information-based war against Iraq led by the United States.
After this war, everyone understood that the original US science and technology and military have been so advanced, so that many countries have a sense of oppression, although the Gulf War was aimed at Iraq, it can also be regarded as a lesson for the entire world.