Was Saddam Hussein a "madman" or a "tyrant"?
At that time, he was "wanted" by the United States all over the world, and even because of him, the United States directly united with dozens of countries and sent troops to Iraq to carry out a large-scale "beheading" operation, and Saddam Hussein evaded the United States everywhere, but he was still discovered by the United States, and was finally "hanged" by the US military.
But what is puzzling is that Saddam Hussein obviously still has so much equipment in his hands, why is he being chased and fought by the United States, and the biggest doubt is why he hid 800 fighters in the desert, instead of directly equipping them to counterattack?
When the Gulf War broke out in 1991, it only took more than a month for the US military to clean up Iraq, the number one hegemon in the Middle East.
It stands to reason that before the outbreak of the Gulf War, some people predicted that the United States would definitely intervene and get involved, and did the Iraqis not understand this or Saddam Hussein?
But obviously he can fight with it, why bury the plane in the desert, what is his purpose, some people say that Saddam Hussein is planning a bigger conspiracy, if there is no bodyguard to inform, then it is not certain who will kill the deer in the end.
For all countries in the world at that time, the Gulf War also allowed all countries to see the truth clearly, and it was the most influential war after World War II.
The contest between information and science and technology will replace the previous tactics of crowds and large corps, and Saddam Hussein suffered from this; while he was still confined to relying on his million-strong army to dominate the Middle East, others had already begun to keep up with the situation at a higher level.
If you can't keep up with the situation, if you don't know how to be flexible, you will become a lamb to be slaughtered, and it will be a matter of time before you are dragged down by a modern war, and in this Gulf War, Iraq's 860,000 troops were suppressed and beaten by the 660,000 NATO troops led by the United States.
The difference of 200,000 troops, but still a complete defeat, perhaps this is also Saddam Hussein's discouragement and choice to lie down.
Before Saddam Hussein became the president of Iraq, Iraq had no say in the international community, but after he sat on the throne of the Iraqi president, the whole of Iraq seemed to have changed into a country, and its strength in all aspects became stronger and stronger.
Even at that time, it was rumored that Iraq was compared to the world's fourth military power, and Saddam Hussein had become the hegemon of the desert.
Because in my opinion, the United States at that time really did not take Saddam Hussein seriously, if it were not for the competition for oil, the United States would not even look at him, even if Saddam Hussein became the hegemon of the Middle East, in fact, in the face of absolute strength, looking at the wars in the Middle East, it was like a few children fighting there, and they would not take it seriously at all.
This is not to whitewash the United States, but the United States does have the ability to pull the problem back to oil, oil is the heart of industry, the United States is short of oil, there is no doubt that it will be lacking, for the United States, a country that often provokes wars, of course, the more oil the better.
And Iraq is also an oil power, although not as abundant as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, but it is also not to be underestimated, but Saddam Hussein's appetite is too great, he is eyeing Kuwait, a country that is also rich in oil, and wants to swallow it, Iraq can become the world's third oil power.
At that time, the country's strength can also be raised to a higher level, and the next step is to pocket the entire Middle East, and Saudi Arabia and other countries are also his goals, and then he will be able to fight with the United States.
However, this move has deeply touched the interests of the United States, oil is an important part of the dollar settlement, if the oil is decided by Iraq at that time, the United States will be particularly passive, so this war is unavoidable.
On August 2, 1990, Iraq sent millions of troops to launch an attack on Kuwait, and Saddam's plan began, because all preparations were made in advance, Saddam did not give Kuwait a chance to breathe, and in a very short time, Kuwait was actually beaten to the capital.
Saddam's ambitions at this time swelled to the extreme, and he announced to the international community that Kuwait would soon become Iraq's 19th province, and Kuwait also panicked at this time, and hurriedly went to the United States to sell miserably, if Kuwait was really swallowed by Iraq, the US oil economy would be in a predicament.
So in the early morning of January 17, 1991, the United States united dozens of countries to attack Iraq, even if the United States lost on the battlefields of Vietnam and Korea, he was still the world's number one military power, why didn't Saddam Hussein take the United States seriously?
Perhaps in Saddam's view, he had already thought of everything, and he had a million-strong army, more than 4,000 tanks, 2,800 armored vehicles, 770 fighters, 3,300 heavy artillery, 254 ground-to-air missiles, and more than 10,000 anti-aircraft machine guns.
And even if you lose, it's okay, because Iraq and the United States also had an ambiguous period in the past, isn't the United States just for the sake of interests now, it's a big deal to admit it, lose some interests, and you can make a comeback, but Saddam Hussein didn't know that the US military was really moving this time.
Oil is the "dead hole" of the United States, and the United States is trying to make an example of the monkey this time, and Saddam Hussein will be unlucky if he bumps into it.
In the face of the US military's devastating offensive, it took only 42 days to exhaust all of Saddam's million-strong army; at that time, not to mention the United States, many countries believed that Iraq's strength was stronger than Vietnam's, and that this war would certainly not end in a short period of time, but who would have thought that it would end in less than a month and a half.
The US military's more than 2,000 high-precision bombs directly crippled Iraq and destroyed many heavy industrial cities in an instant; later Saddam Hussein went into hiding, but the US military did not give up looking for him, and launched a carpet search for Iraq, not giving him a chance to make a comeback.
If it weren't for Saddam's personal bodyguards who sold his whereabouts to the US military, Saddam would not have been discovered so quickly, and in the end Saddam Hussein was found by the US military in a cellar, even if he was treated like a prisoner of war by the US military, he was also greatly humiliated, and was imprisoned by the US military, and later hanged.
Later, in order to find the treasure that Saddam Hussein had accumulated over the years, the US military accidentally dug up 800 fighters in the desert, and the US military was puzzled, if Saddam had sent these 800 fighters out to confront the US military, it would have been able to resist for a long time, at least the US military would not have won the victory so quickly.
It was not until later that some people analyzed Saddam's approach that they understood what he was thinking, because Saddam Hussein had already made a good plan to retain his strength, avoid the sharp edge of the United States, hide 800 fighters, and make a comeback in the future.
However, Saddam misjudged the situation, and the United States did not leave him a way out at all, and directly wanted to kill him, so Iraq became a victim, Saddam Hussein was also hanged, and the curtain came to an end for a Middle East hegemon.
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China.com "I'd rather be beaten by the U.S. military than bury 800 fighters deep in the desert, and now I know that Saddam Hussein is clever and resourceful to protect the army"
https://news.china.com/socialgd/10000169/20240705/46802977.html
CCTV "U.S. Media Reveals U.S.-Iran War Will Be Completely Different from 1991 Gulf War"
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