The 1991 Gulf War has a lot of evocative places, such as Saddam Hussein after the occupation of Kuwait, the United States repeatedly asked Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, according to the comparison of strength at that time, Iraq is obviously not a rival of the United States, although Iraq has a million strong divisions, advanced American and Soviet weapons, known as the world's third, but for the world's first United States, Iraq is obviously not an opponent.
Moreover, after the United Nations passed the resolution, the US military also began to assemble in the Middle East, Saddam Still refused to withdraw troops, and even a week before the war, the United States and Iraq held a negotiation, Bush wrote a letter to Saddam Hussein hoping that the Iraqi negotiators would forward Saddam Hussein, but what is shocking is that the negotiators directly rejected this letter and also rejected Iraq's request to withdraw from Kuwait unconditionally.
So, before the Gulf War, why did Saddam Hussein insist on not withdrawing from Kuwait? The author believes that there are three reasons:
First: Saddam Hussein had mobilized domestic nationalism at that time, and it can be said that the Iraqis at that time were fanatical because of the invasion of Kuwait, and Kuwait had been declared to be the 19th province of Iraq; at this time, Saddam Hussein was already riding a tiger, and if the war did not start, he would withdraw his troops, which would cause dissatisfaction among the domestic people, and also make himself lose his prestige, and he was even more reluctant to this piece of fat meat.
Second: Saddam Hussein judged at that time that although the United States has mobilized a large army to the Middle East, Iraq has a strong army, and once the ground war is fought, the US military is likely to suffer great trauma, which will cause a wave of anti-war in the United States, after all, the US military is not fighting for itself, but fighting for Kuwait, if the United States sees a large number of US troops dying, it will definitely discuss whether it is worth it, thus forcing the US military to withdraw.
Third: there are a large number of Arab troops in the coalition army, and the US army is also stationed in the Arab countries, Saddam Hussein believes that the alliance between the Arab countries and the United States is only temporary, once the war is frustrated or the Arabs die in the war, the Arab countries are likely to have contradictions with the United States, so that the coalition army disintegrates, and the US military will naturally retreat.
Based on the above three points, Saddam Hussein felt that although Iraq could not defeat the United States, the United States was not willing to die a large number of Kuwaiti deaths, plus the coalition army was composed of Western countries and Arab countries, and there were many internal contradictions, so Saddam Hussein believed that he had the opportunity to drag the US troops to retreat, and the fat meat that had reached his mouth was reluctant to spit out, so he insisted on not withdrawing troops from Kuwait.
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