184: Huge wealth: $50 billion in oil revenue each year!

Dragon Country.

Peng Lin also saw Saddam's impassioned "performance" on the television news!

This made Peng Lin have to admit that cooperating with smart people was incredibly simple!

He merely hinted at it, and Saddam fully understood the hidden meaning in his words!

He even brought unimaginable benefits to both countries through a "political show"!

If Iraq increased its oil production for no reason, it would affect the interests of all OPEC countries and would certainly face a united boycott.

But now, Saddam had achieved an increase in his country's oil production by "reducing" Iran's oil output.

This way, the overall daily oil production quota of the OPEC countries was not exceeded, and other countries had nothing to say!

After all, no matter what, it was Iran that first launched an airstrike on Iraq this time, and Saddam had already shown great rationality and restraint!

Moreover, relations between countries inherently follow the law of the jungle.

This time, Dragon Country supported Iraq in winning the war, so it could sit at the table and enjoy the fruits of victory.

But if Dragon Country had lost this time, Iran would have absolutely no mercy in bombing Dragon Country's oil facilities and automobile factories within Iraq!

Even the USA and the Soviet Union would support Iran in clearing all of Dragon Country's foundations and interests in the Middle East, severely weakening Dragon Country!

Therefore, in wars between nations, no country will show mercy!

In the following days,

the Iraqi Air Force began continuous and uninterrupted bombing of Iran.

During this process, the j-10e "menglong" fighter jet began to fully demonstrate its multi-role advantages.

Traditional interceptors, for example, generally focus only on high-altitude, high-speed interception of enemy bombers, equipped only with air-to-air missiles and simple radar, lacking ground attack capabilities, and unable to participate in ground support or electronic warfare.

Reconnaissance aircraft, on the other hand, have the sole objective of acquiring intelligence, relying on high-altitude flight or stealth technology, are unarmed, and have extremely weak self-defense capabilities, making them very easy to shoot down once discovered.

However, multi-role fighter jets, compared to traditional interceptors and reconnaissance aircraft, demonstrate superior advantages in terms of mission adaptability, combat efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Their core design concept of "one aircraft, multiple capabilities" was simply born for modern aerial combat!

For example, traditional interceptors and reconnaissance aircraft need to coordinate with different types of aircraft such as fighter jets and bombers, relying on complex command systems.

For instance, after a reconnaissance aircraft discovers a target, it needs to call for bomber support, and there is a delay in intelligence transmission, which may cause it to miss the opportunity.

In addition, multi-aircraft deployment also requires more airport resources and logistical maintenance, which severely tests a country's comprehensive strength.

But the Iraqi Air Force, with only one j-10e third-generation fighter jet as its main force, integrated electronic warfare and reconnaissance, and at the same time perfectly adapted to all battlefield missions of air combat and ground combat!

This not only greatly improved battlefield efficiency but also reduced the cost of aircraft procurement, maintenance, and training!

It is no exaggeration to say that during the entire process of bombing military facilities within Iran, the Iraqi Air Force completed all missions with just one j-10e "menglong" fighter jet!

This achievement led countries around the Global to re-examine the development prospects of multi-role fighter jets for the Air Force and the strength of the Dragon Country Air Force!

After all, Dragon Country's self-use version of the J-10 is even more powerful than the export version of the j-10e!

...Early May.

The Iraqi Air Force successfully completed its strategic objective of military strikes against Iran.

After gaining air superiority, the Iraqi Air Force carried out comprehensive and systematic strikes against Iran's military bases, industrial facilities, transportation hubs, and other strategic targets.

Although these airstrikes had limited destructive power against the Iranian military's underground bunkers and mountainous military facilities, they successfully destroyed 80% of its oilfield facilities within the country.

For Iraq, this already achieved the core interests it most desired!

Within the OPEC organization, Iraq successfully took over Iran's original oil production share and began large-scale production increases!

And at the current international crude oil price of 60 US dollars per barrel, this is simply a huge profit!

After frantic expansion of production at the Rumaila Oil Field, the oil production of the jointly developed oilfield by Dragon Country and Iraq quickly reached 3 million barrels per day.

On average, each country could receive nearly 100 million US dollars in profit per day!

For Dragon Country, which had just begun its reform and opening-up policy, this was an astronomical amount of wealth!

End of May.

The mid-year meeting of OPEC oil-producing countries was successfully held in Dubai, the capital of the UAE.

And at this meeting, all countries unanimously approved the decision to increase Iraq's daily oil production quota.

Iraq's daily oil production quota was raised to 8 million barrels, second only to Shat Country's daily limit of 12 million barrels.

A daily extraction limit of 8 million barrels represents enormous interests and wealth!

As long as Dragon Country's overseas oil development company can raise production to this level, Dragon Country can earn over 50 billion US dollars annually from overseas oil extraction projects alone!

It's even more profitable than selling weapons!

However, at this meeting, all OPEC member states also unanimously agreed to increase oil production to stabilize the soaring international oil prices.

But Iran, also an OPEC member, had its daily oil production quota reduced to 1 million barrels this year due to the large-scale destruction of its domestic oil facilities!

...Meanwhile,

the The White House was in chaos!

Because oil security is the lifeblood of the USA!

And the combined production capacity of the Rumaila Oil Field, jointly developed by Dragon Country and Iraq, which is expected to fill Iran's lost share with an average daily increase of 8 million barrels, is undoubtedly a cut to the USA' main artery!

Currently, the USA has successfully developed into the world's largest economy by relying on oil and the hegemony of the US dollar!

But Dragon Country now holds the key bargaining chip for oil pricing power in the Middle East, which is undoubtedly like a Damocles sword hanging over the USA' head!

Making him restless!

Coupled with the current restructuring of the power structure within OPEC, Iraq's increased say, and the Shatt Royal Family's desire to break free from the USA' control, this made the USA even more panicked!

Because once the USA completely loses control in the Middle East, the petrodollar system may also collapse!

At that time, the USA, this huge Global Superpowers, will face an unprecedented crisis!

"If Dragon Country uses Iraq as a pivot to promote RMB settlement for crude oil trade, weakening the US dollar's status as the sole settlement currency for Global energy, the Ministry of Finance model estimates that if 10% of Middle East crude oil transactions shift to RMB, the US dollar's annual outflow will exceed 80 billion US dollars."

"Traditional allies such as Shat Country and Kuwait may turn to a 'hedging strategy,' seeking technological cooperation with Dragon Country to reduce their security dependence on the USA. CIA assessments show that Shat Country has secretly initiated negotiations to increase purchases of Dragon Country's advanced weapons and equipment."

"The Soviet Union's failure in Iran may accelerate pressure on Europe, while Dragon Country's victory in the Middle East will embolden its Asia-Pacific allies, weakening our 'Indo-Pacific Strategy's' deterrence."

"..."

A series of reports and strategic assessments from the Department of the Treasury, the CIA, The Pentagon, and the Department of Energy made the The White House feel like it was sitting on pins and needles!

No one had ever imagined that Dragon Country would cause such great trouble and pose such a huge threat to the USA!

And according to the opinions of Secretary of State, Minister of National Defense, Director of the CIA, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Energy, and other decision-makers, the USA now has only one path to take.

That is to personally intervene and eliminate Iraq and Saddam!