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Recently, the world has been exciting, but now it is even more exciting!
Or this scene starts: there is a person carrying a thousand catties of boulders, on the surface he looks desperate, relying on a breath to resist, in fact, inside, he has long been churning in blood, maybe when, after the blood is spit out, the person will wither!
At this critical moment, a person came running, touched his muscles, and sneered: The young man is quite capable of carrying it, for the sake of your health, do you want to give you some strength?
How did the man who carried the stone feel when he heard this?
I'm sure I'll be dark-eyed!
I'm going to have to beg for it!
In this case, if it is an individual, it is really possible to release people, but if it is a country, it is absolutely impossible to release people!
We have such an old saying in China: One day of the enemy, eternal trouble!
Seeing this, everyone should almost understand who the person who is carrying this boulder is!
United States!
It is now carrying two burdens: Russia-Ukraine and Palestine and Israel!
Some time ago, the Houthis just came out and gave it a little more strength, and now the international shipping market is in chaos, and cargo ships have bypassed the Red Sea and turned to the Cape of Good Hope!
This intensity alone is enough for it to be out of breath!
But what is the attitude of the Americans now?
While continuing to be stubborn, US Department of Defense spokesman Ryder said to everyone with joy: Ladies and gentlemen, there are now 20 countries participating in the "Guardian of Prosperity" operation led by the United States in the Red Sea!
That's not right.,Didn't you just say 10 some time ago?
How did it double all at once?
Ryder said: Add 2!
What about the 2 ones?
One is Australia;
One is Greece!
Isn't there only 12 of them? Why 20?
Ryder smiled mysteriously: Everyone doesn't know about this, because there are still 8 countries, although they participate, they are not willing to make it public!
Seeing this, if you don't know the inside story, do you think that the United States is now responding to all calls?
Actually?
Exactly the opposite of what the Americans are blowing!
Its Red Sea escort is about to collapse!
Spain, France have withdrawn!
Italy also announced its withdrawal!
The other countries, except for the unfortunate British, had to send a destroyer, and the rest all said: We are willing to send staff officers to the US naval center in the Middle East to participate in the escort in the form of on-the-spot guidance!
Where is this naval center?
Bahrain!
Located in the Persian Gulf, at least 1,000 kilometers from the Red Sea!
What do you mean by that?
It seems that the only thing that the United States can still count on in this "Operation Prosperity Guardian" is the super-powerful Bahrain and Seychelles, after all, their sea power is stronger than the world-famous Mongolian navy!
On the other side is something that everyone absolutely did not expect: secretly, the Americans are pleading bitterly with Iran!
Yesterday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian revealed: During this time, the Americans have been begging Iran in the hope that it can "help contain the Houthis"!
And then what?
Rejected by Iran!
The Iranians told the United States: You are a belligerent, and you have no right to talk about "limiting the scope of the war."
How do you feel?
I can't help but think of the famous line: You kneel, sister begs you something.
How do you describe this scene?
Like before, everyone does see a lot of this kind of thing: rolling your eyes when you pinch your neck, and bragging when you let go.
But I didn't expect that you actually evolved, and now you can actually roll your eyes and brag at the same time.
What does this mean?
It's obviously not strong enough! I have to continue to strengthen it!
How is it added?
At this point, you can enter the second floor. Look at this news: On the 23rd local time, Iran's Tasnim News Agency said that a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that if the United States and its allies continue to commit crimes in the Gaza Strip, it may prompt the emergence of new resistance forces.
And then he put a cruel word: "The Mediterranean, the Strait of Gibraltar and other waterways" could be closed!
Here's the point!
Gibraltar!
Above.
From the map, you can see very clearly: although the Mediterranean Sea is called the "sea", it is actually quite special, it is wrapped between two continents, one is the Eurasian continent, the other is the African continent, in fact, it is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Strait of Gibraltar.
So in the international shipping community, the status of the Strait of Gibraltar is definitely no less than the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea!
Now the Red Sea in the east, because of the actions of the Houthis during this time, has been almost done.
If it were to be "shut down", as the Iranians say, something would really happen!
But when the Iranians first said this, many people laughed: You bull, you blow a little big!
Why?
What are the countries near the Strait of Gibraltar?
A bunch of old European powers!
England, France, Spain, Italy, etc., are all nearby!
What about Iran?
It's 5000 km away!
Judging from the distance, this possibility is much lower than if we closed the ports in Australia!
After all, our Sanya is less than 4,000 kilometers away from Australia!
So at first a lot of people want to laugh!
But if you think about it, many people can't laugh right away!
Why?
There's a super bitter lord in that place!
People have been suffering since 1976, and they have been suffering for 47 years!
At this point, you can enter the third layer: what is the name of this bitter master?
Frente POLISARIO.
When you see this name, do you think it's a bit long and a little hard to remember?
But I'm sorry, what is written above is just the abbreviation of others.
Its full name is: Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro.
After reciting this full name, it is definitely a test of lung capacity!
But it doesn't matter, we Chinese don't use the above two names very much.
What do we call this organization?
The full name is: Front Popular Liberation of Western Sahara;
The abbreviation is: Western Sahara Front.
All of a sudden, I quickly remembered it!
At this point, we must sigh: Chinese is still good!
Why is this organization a super bitter master?
When many people look at the world map, they will find that on the map of African administrative divisions, there are places with different colors than those of other African countries.
Western Sahara!
Why is this so?
Because it is not yet an independent country, it is still fighting for independence!
First of all, a general introduction to this place: it is not small, with more than 200,000 square kilometers, but it is a very pure desert, the scorching sun is shining, and in some places there is no precipitation for 20 years!
By the way: Sanmao went to this place back then!
There is still someone interested in this barren land: Spain.
In 1886 it made it a protectorate, and in 1958 the Spaniards made it the province of Western Sahara.
But Spain did this, it was a colonial rule, so it angered the three countries around Western Sahara.
Algeria;
Mauritania;
Morocco.
In May 1973, with the support of Algeria, the Frente Popular para la libération de Saguia el-Hamra y de Río de Oro was formed, which was still too long, let's call it the Front de la Cesara de la Sisara, and began to wage an armed struggle against the Spaniards for independence.
As I said earlier: This place is a pure desert area, and Spain will definitely not be worth fighting this battle!
So in 1975, the Spaniards decided: I flash!
According to the general rule, since the local people have resistance and have been fighting for independence for more than 2 years, the Spaniards should hand over this place to the Western Sahara Front!
As a result, the Spaniards did a trick and it didn't!
It called Mauritania and Morocco and said, "I'm leaving, and I'll leave this Western Sahara to you!"
Didn't look for it!
Didn't look for the Western Sahara Front!
In vain, a pie fell, and Morocco and Mauritania were overjoyed, and the two families immediately decided: in this case, we will divide this pie!
Morocco has 170,000 square kilometers to the north!
90,000 square kilometers south of Mauritania!
The Algerian and Western Sahara formations were furious and publicly condemned the behavior of these two families for not working, but picking peaches indiscriminately!
On February 26, 1976, the Spanish army was withdrawn.
The following day, 27 February 1976, the Western Sahara Front declared the independence of Western Sahara and established the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic".
So be careful: if you see "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic" anywhere, you're referring to this organization.
At the same time, however, Morocco and Mauritania also made inroads into Western Sahara.
The Western Sahara Front was suddenly miserable.
Because Western Sahara is a desert area at all, the population is very small, and now there are only 100,000 local residents, and it is estimated that there are only tens of thousands at that time, and the army of the Western Sahara People's Front is only about 800 people.
What about Morocco?
At that time, the population was more than 10 million!
Therefore, it could not be stopped at all, and the Western Sahara Front had no choice but to start a desert guerrilla war.
This kind of battle, fought in this kind of place, is extremely difficult.
But even so, the strength of the Western Sahara Front slowly increased: from more than 800 people at the beginning, to several thousand!
After more than two years of fighting, in 1978, Mauritania in the south could not bear it, and the government collapsed.
In 1979, the new Mauritanian government signed a peace treaty with the Western Sahara People's Front, announcing that it had renounced the more than 70,000 square kilometers that it had previously divided with Morocco, and recognized these areas as the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic", which was in fact the territory of the Western Sahara People's Front.
Seeing this, do you feel that the victory of the Western Sahara Front is in sight?
The answer is: no!
It's worse anyway!
Morocco took the opportunity to move south in a big way and eat the south as well!
The disparity between the forces of everyone was too great, the Western Saharas were in a bitter battle, and the locals fled to Algeria!
By 1987, Morocco controlled almost all of Western Sahara!
At the same time, it has also built 6 walls in the local area, with a total length of about 2,720 kilometers!
The entire long wall is made of sand and stone, about 3 meters high, and barracks, pillboxes, and airfields are built at intervals, and radar monitors movements outside the walls.
Outside the wall, there are a lot of mines!
A total of 7 million mines, forming the longest mine belt in the world.
The wall in Western Sahara
Seeing this, some people may say: Wait, why are the three words "separation wall" here so familiar?
What the Israelis are doing to Gaza is also a border separation wall, which is quite similar to Morocco's!
Is there any connection between these two walls?
If anyone guesses in this direction, the answer is: Congratulations, you got it right!
This wall was built under the secret guidance of the Israelites.
At this point, we have to enter the fourth layer: Morocco is a country, and it is also an Arab country, and Palestine is also its beloved relatives, friends, and siblings, and it is so involved with Israel, is it not afraid of the people of other countries and the internal public opinion of Arab countries?
Of course I'm afraid!
In fact, in 1967, during the "Six-Day War", that is, the third Middle East war, when Arab countries were still the same enemy, Morocco secretly had a good relationship with Israel, but because of its identity as an Arab country, it never dared to openly establish diplomatic relations with Israel!
When will diplomatic relations be established?
2020!
At that time, US President Donald Trump told the Moroccans: As long as you are willing to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, we will openly admit that Western Sahara is yours.
And then the Moroccans stopped pretending!
At this point, some people may have to say: among the Arab countries, Morocco and Israel have not established diplomatic relations too early, and they are worthy of the Palestinians.
In terms of time, this is true: Egypt established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1979, and Jordan and Israel established diplomatic relations in 1994, and they have long had embassies with each other.
But here's the thing: the folk attitudes of the two sides are different!
For example, despite the fact that Egypt and Israel have established diplomatic relations for so many years, if the Israelis want to go to see the pyramids, dare to swagger and openly wear their little garden hats?
Definitely don't dare!
Even if you don't go very quietly, something happened some time ago.
The Egyptians, in turn, did the same.
But what about Morocco?
It's different.
As I said before, in what year did the Moroccans, under the guidance of the Israelis, build this wall against the Western Sahara People's Front?
1987!
36 years ago!
At that time, these two families secretly began to talk about you and me!
In 2021, when the two families have already established diplomatic relations, there is no need to hide and hide like before!
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid went to Morocco for a visit, and as a result, in front of the Moroccan Foreign Minister and a bunch of media reporters, he openly said that Algeria was a threat to Morocco.
Lapid also hinted that if Morocco were to do something to Algeria, Israel could help.
What do you mean by that?
In the history of other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, no Israeli official has ever done this!
The result can be imagined: Algeria is furious!
It didn't take long for Algeria to announce: severing diplomatic relations with Morocco!
Why are Algerians so angry?
The relationship between these two is quite bad!
There are historical grudges!
What kind of grudge?
It starts with a long-standing dream of Morocco: Greater Morocco!
Especially strong in the 1960s!
What is "Greater Morocco".
We all know that, not counting Western Sahara, which is now occupied by it, Morocco has a territory of more than 460,000 square kilometres.
But Moroccans don't think so.
They feel that in history, all the places that have been associated with Morocco, such as being ruled by Morocco, or have been ruled in legends, or have not even been ruled by it in legends, but it feels that it should be ruled by it, should be its territory!
The total area is almost 3 million square kilometers!
These places are included:
nearly half of Algeria;
All of Mauritania;
all of Western Sahara;
There are also Niger, Mali and even part of Senegal.
Moreover, in order to realize the dream of "Greater Morocco", Morocco will first cut at Algeria!
The year was 1963.
Why?
Because just the year before, after eight years of hard fighting, Algeria had won its independence from the French.
But the war was extremely bloody: France invested 800,000 troops at its peak to suppress the independence of Algerians, while the population of Algeria at that time was only 13 million, and almost every 15 Algerians could get a French soldier.
1.5 million people slaughtered!
A lot of towns were destroyed!
So in 1962, although Algeria won its independence, the whole country was in ruins.
That's when Morocco came out and said: Algerians, the border between us is not right!
How to draw it?
They are going to push Algeria and the long desert border before it dozens to hundreds of kilometers to the southeast!
Why?
In fact, I have said the reason before: because just a few years before the independence of Algeria, the French discovered a lot of mines in this place, especially in Tindouf, and discovered a super large iron ore mine (see Just now, in the depths of the Sahara, another change)
Since your country is in ruins, you definitely can't afford to fight again!
So the minerals are mine, and the deserts are yours!
Then Morocco sent troops and occupied the sandy land where these minerals were located!
The Algerians were furious and immediately sent troops to fight back, and the two sides fought a war in the sands deep in the Sahara!
The name of this war is called the Sand War.
As a result, the Moroccans were expelled, but the Algerians, having just experienced eight years of war, were unable to pursue the victory.
After that, the border was the same.
But after this war, the relationship between the two countries is very bad:
Morocco feels that the Algerians are its main rivals in realizing its dream of a "Greater Morocco";
The Algerians felt that it was unbearable for the Moroccans to take advantage of the fact that our homeland had been destroyed for eight years of bitter war with France.
After the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara in 1976 came out, the relationship between the two families became even worse.
How so?
Although Morocco now occupies 80% of the land of Western Sahara, with the support of Algeria and other countries, the Western Sahara Front has always insisted on resisting and has repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Moroccan army!
Even the captured Moroccan army alone reached more than 2,300 people!
Because of the protracted war, many of the soldiers of the Western Sahara Front are already entering old age.
And in order to defend against the Western Sahara Front, Morocco had to station 100,000 troops in this desert!
As I said earlier, the inhabitants of Western Sahara are now almost 100,000!
It can be seen that the number of troops in this garrison is huge!
At this point, some people may have to say: up to now, we have only seen that the Western Sahara Front has a good relationship with Algeria, and it seems that it has nothing to do with the Iranians, saying that they want to blockade the Strait of Gibraltar!
Here is another incident from 5 years ago: in addition to severing diplomatic relations with Algeria, in May 2018, Morocco also announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Iran!
Why?
Moroccans say that because "Iran, through Allah Lebanon, provides funds to the Western Saharan Front, sends weapons and assists in training personnel, which seriously threatens Morocco's national security and interests."
By the way, although Algeria is Sunni, its relations with Iran have always been good!
And I said before: among all the Arab countries, if you look at the numbers on paper, it may be that Egypt has the largest military power, but in terms of actual combat effectiveness, I am afraid it has to count Algeria!
Some time ago, the German newspaper "Bild" said: The Western Sahara People's Front may already have drones and even missiles at hand!
You know: in the Middle East and North Africa, Iran is the only country that has a complete set of military industrial systems, which can produce both unmanned and various missiles.
The place occupied by the Western Sahara Front, although it is quite far from the Strait of Gibraltar, is actually quite far away.
But who knows what the Western Sahara Front has at hand now?
Moreover, Algeria and Morocco, both of which are in North Africa, have chosen two diametrically opposed paths from a very early age: one to the west and the other to the east.
For example, some time ago, when there was a war between Russia and Ukraine, almost all Arab countries were silent, and only Morocco responded to the United States by sending tanks to Ukraine.
These two countries have been fighting hard for decades, but the two of them are right on the edge of the Strait of Gibraltar, and they are still in a state of severance of diplomatic relations.
How so?
Back then, a can of laundry detergent, whether you believe it or not, was directly launched in Iraq.
Since the Russia-Ukraine war last year, too many paintings have been torn apart:
First of all, it has broken the military myth of the United States and NATO, more than 30 countries in NATO, together with artillery shells, have not been able to come up with enough weapons for Ukraine and Russia to fight, and now they all have the appearance of trying to scatter birds and beasts.
Then came Hamas's surprise attack on Israel on October 7, coupled with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that has continued to this day, the reputation of the "little bully of the Middle East" suddenly disappeared and became a "rookie ant".
After that, the Houthis tossed and turned on the shore of the Red Sea, and after the US aircraft carrier arrived in the starry night, they did nothing, looking like a super peace-lover, and until now they are helpless at the seaside except for secretly begging Iran.
Whether something will happen in North Africa is not yet known.
Many things in human history, in fact, most of them do not have a good design of "big chess", many times it is step by step, to test the opponent's bottom line, and find that this step works, so take another step forward, if it works, then you might as well take another step forward.
What do you mean by that?
It's still the sentence I repeated before: when everyone finds out that the empire is in decline, the previous sufferers will run out one by one, and then start to talk to the empire and try to prevent the empire from even having a chance to take a breath!
Since you smashed people's window panes, don't expect people to have a bad memory and won't come to the door in the future.
This is the world of great controversy.
At this point, let's say that sentence again: Biden and his group of people are always confident and methodical, messing everything up!
We might as well open our eyes and see how the world before us is collapsing little by little!
At the same time, I hope everyone can succeed in this round of great changes!