An expert said that in the final analysis, the so-called war is still an economic problem, and if everyone cannot talk about it well, they can only fight it. This is undoubtedly true, turning over the history of mankind, behind every war there is the shadow of money.
Wars have results, failures or victories, and relative economic interests are the same, gained or lost, but in the last century in Africa, there was a special war, and although the war itself was divided into victories and defeats, neither the winner nor the loser gained benefits, only because what they were fighting for was originally nothing.
Things start in 1973, when the Swedish Oil Company announced a news that a huge amount of oil and gas had been found in Ogaden, and as you know, oil and gas are so important to modern people, in the city, without oil, the luxury cars on the road are all decorations, and without natural gas, the residents can't even cook. It can be said that as far as daily life is concerned, they are all necessities.
As soon as the news came out, someone could not sit still, he saw the huge economic benefits here, and he was particularly poor, so the temptation was huge.
Ogaden geographical location
This man is Siad Barre, and to say that he is poor does not mean that he himself has no food, he must be able to eat, because he is the leader of Somalia, and the reason why he is said to be the leader is because Somalia alone has the final say, in fact, he is a dictator. Although the dictator himself can eat, but the country is particularly poor, and he is in a hurry to make money, and now there is hope.
But I hope to see that the road is indeed tortuous, why, because Ou Jia Deng is not in his country, if you want to get Ou Jia Deng, you still have to think about it. Fortunately, oujiadeng is not in Somalia, but the population is mostly Somali, which is enough for a person who plays politics, and he immediately took action to encourage the independence of the Somalis in the Oujiaden area, which made it so powerful that the army of the Western Somalia Liberation Front they established reached as many as fifty thousand at the most.
There must be people who are unhappy to do this, this unhappy person is called Mengatus, he is unhappy because someone is trying to split his territory, he is the leader of Ethiopia, he is very busy now, because the United States has stopped aiding him at this time, which is a big blow to his country, and he has just come to power and is purging the political forces in the country, so his current domestic economy is not good, the army is even worse, in a word, he does not want to care, he can't manage, there is no power.
But Barre became more and more noisy, and he also allied with the Soviet Union, obtained a lot of advanced war equipment, and there were fifty fighters, which made Mengatus feel like a needle, he understood that his military strength was not good, and to fight against these advanced weapons was tantamount to hitting a pebble with a pebble.
Faced with a messy situation at home and abroad, U.S. aid seems to be less and less hopeless, Mengitus gritted his teeth, but also moved closer to the Soviet Union, in order to please the Soviet Union, he specially allowed the Soviet Union to establish military bases in his country, which is actually a bit of a land for help.
At this point, the Soviets were pleased, and they did not hesitate to abandon Barre and began to aid Mengatus. The balance of victory began to tilt in Mengutus.
The year after the announcement of the discovery of oil and gas in Ogaden, a modern three-dimensional war took place in two poor and backward countries in Africa, commanded by Soviet General Petrov, 120,000 Ethiopian troops attacking Somalia, and they eliminated only 8,000 regular troops, but also more than 100,000 militia. The war ended with a crushing victory, and Barre was completely defeated and withdrew from the Ogaden region.
The outcome was so just that Ogaden returned to his homeland, but Ethiopia had not dug a single drop of oil out of it until now.
It was a war without booty, the Swedish oil companies were still functioning, the Soviet Union was smiling, and only the 50 billion war funds and 150,000 lives were unpaid.