235: Chapter 335 A long list of sanctions was released.

The United States Department of Defense soon received reports transmitted back by the commanders of the "USS Gerald R. Ford" and the "USS David".

Regarding this operation, the United States Department of Defense had tacitly approved it.

It was impossible for the USA to simply obey whatever orders the Anti-Judea Coalition issued and stop aiding Israel.

Therefore, after the 48-hour deadline of the navigation warning order passed, they continued to transport various weapons and ammunition to Israel.

However, they did not expect that the Anti-Judea Coalition would actually launch an attack and shoot down USA aircraft.

This development made the United States Department of Defense unable to sit still.

When the commanders of the "USS Gerald R. Ford" and the "USS David" wanted to launch retaliation, the United States Department of Defense had no intention of stopping them.

The initial idea of the United States Department of Defense was to teach the Anti-Judea Coalition a lesson; once the Anti-Judea Coalition suffered, they would obediently revoke the navigation warning order.

However, unexpectedly, the final result exceeded the expectations of the United States Department of Defense.

It turned out that a large number of USA fighter jets were shot down, and instead, it was their own military that suffered.

They failed to teach the Anti-Judea Coalition a lesson, but were instead taught a lesson by the Anti-Judea Coalition.

How could this be tolerated? How could the USA, a military superpower, save face before the world?

The United States Department of Defense initially wanted to order the commanders of the "USS Gerald R. Ford" and the "USS David" to launch fighter jets again for a larger-scale retaliation.

But soon they received the transmitted report, which immediately dismissed the idea of immediate retaliation.

After all, the loss of more than 14 fighter jets at once was significant.

The USA had not suffered such a huge loss in a very long time.

Such losses forced the United States Department of Defense to act cautiously.

After some discussion, the United States Department of Defense reached a preliminary decision.

Before completely destroying the Anti-Judea Coalition's air defense missile network, it was better not to let USA transport planes enter Israeli airports.

No one could afford the risk of continuing to lose fighter jets.

To destroy the Anti-Judea Coalition's air defense missile network, it was necessary to master the number and location of their deployed air defense missile sites, which could not be done in a short time.

But before that, they could not do nothing.

After urgent consultations between the United States Department of Defense and the government, they immediately decided to launch large-scale sanctions against the countries in the Persian Gulf region that had joined the Anti-Judea Coalition, completely cutting off their confidence to support the Anti-Judea Coalition.

After all, many things in the Persian Gulf region countries had to be obtained through imports. As long as the channels for imports from the USA and European countries were cut off, they believed that some countries in the Persian Gulf region would soon surrender.

As more and more Persian Gulf region countries withdrew from the Anti-Judea Coalition, the Anti-Judea Coalition would eventually collapse and would no longer be able to form combat capabilities.

Therefore, a long list of sanctions was soon issued.

It not only included various industrial products but also various agricultural products, with thousands of scattered products included in the sanctions list, prohibiting exports to countries in the Persian Gulf region.

With so many products sanctioned and unable to be imported into the Persian Gulf region countries, the impact was significant.

After learning the news, the Persian Gulf Regional Cooperation Organization immediately organized all member states to hold a meeting for discussion.

Some member states were obviously frightened by the USA's sanctions list and proposed at the meeting to negotiate with the USA and meet the USA's conditions in exchange for the USA lifting the sanctions.

But there were also those who strongly insisted on standing tough against the USA, such as Iran, Syria, etc.

After all, they had been sanctioned by the USA more than once or twice; they couldn't even remember how many sanctions there had been.

Now the situation of the Anti-Judea Coalition was excellent; if they negotiated with the USA now, it would be throwing away this great situation.

The first war between the Persian Gulf region countries and Israel was because they were tricked by the USA into negotiating a ceasefire, which eventually allowed Israel to catch its breath, leading to their own failure.

If they had insisted on continuing the war at that time and completely wiped out Israel, there would not have been decades of subsequent wars.

This time they could not make a wrong step and throw away the advantages they had already gained.

Otherwise, the goal of driving Israel out of the Persian Gulf region would be delayed indefinitely.

Under the lobbying of Iran, Saudi Arabia also considered the fickle nature of the USA—weapons and equipment previously sold were directly delayed in delivery under various pretexts—and knew that they could not negotiate with the USA now.

Finally, under the joint efforts of Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Persian Gulf Regional Cooperation Organization decided to immediately start looking for alternative solutions for various sanctioned products and to negotiate with Russia, China, India, and other countries to purchase alternative products from these countries.

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and other countries sent representatives separately to these countries to conduct trade negotiations, and after finding alternative industrial and agricultural products, they immediately signed contracts for large-scale imports.

Of course, in order to counter the USA's sanctions and divide the European countries that the USA was wooing, the Persian Gulf Regional Cooperation Organization decided to significantly increase the price of imported oil and natural gas for European countries participating in the sanctions, directly increasing the price by 30% based on the international market price, while those European countries that did not participate in the sanctions would maintain the original price.

At the same time, Egypt significantly increased the transit fees for participating sanctioned countries using the Suez Canal, increasing it by 50% based on the original price, forcing some countries to withdraw from the USA's sanction implementation ranks.

After all, most European countries needed to use oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf region. If the domestic price of oil and natural gas use increased significantly, it would lead to a sharp rise in the ex-factory costs of a series of products, and eventually, the prices of the entire country would rise sharply.

As long as the extent of the increase exceeded the bottom line of most citizens' endurance, there would be large-scale public protests, forcing the government to make concessions and eventually withdraw from the sanctions against the Persian Gulf region countries.

As long as more and more countries withdrew from the sanctions, the USA's sanctions would exist in name only.

As for the Suez Canal increasing transit fees, it could also force the domestic prices of European countries to rise.

After all, the rise in freight costs would also be passed on to commodity prices.

Even if there were those unwilling to pay higher freight fees and instead detoured from the south of Africa, this would not only extend transport time but also increase transport costs.

Eventually, it would, more or less, fuel the rise in commodity prices.

The Persian Gulf Regional Cooperation Organization wanted to use these means to make the people of more European countries feel the sting of prices, and then vote with their feet to force their governments not to follow the USA's sanctions.

As for the effectiveness, the Persian Gulf Regional Cooperation Organization did not know for the time being, but they had to take some measures to counter the USA's sanctions.