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"There is a part of the human brain called the hypothalamus. This part secretes a neurohormone called oxytocin. This hormone strengthens the sense of group identity in which you belong. For example, on the street, a home country People are fighting with a foreigner, and most natives will tend to help their compatriots when seeing this situation. If the fighting is all natives, but one is a Christian and the other is a Muslim, then the level of oxytocin is high. A Christian will help his own people. If he finds that the two fighting are both Christians, the locals with high levels of oxytocin will unite against the foreigners.
——Excerpt from the novel "Swimming Ye", author: Shen Bingbo"
According to the latest statistics, the total global arms trade in 2018 reached 399.5 billion U.S. dollars, and the top five major countries accounted for more than 70%. Of course, this is the number on the surface, and there are many unclear sales that are not counted or even not available to the state. Let's talk about the arms deals organized by various "Yuri".
African World War
Say two things.
First, in China today, there are 10 cities with a population of more than 10 million, and only three cities with a population of more than 15 million-Chongqing, Shanghai, and Beijing. No matter where you are, you will feel crowded. On holidays or once to the hospital, you can even feel suffocated. Yes, there are too many people. But is it really crowded? I want to tell you a few cities that you have never heard of. Lagos, Nigeria, has a population of 16 million. Kinshasa, Congo, has a population of 11.85 million. And their area is much smaller than our city, their population density is 24,000 people per square kilometer. The density in Beijing is 1,000 people per square kilometer. A difference of 24 times! !
A city with a squeeze of 24 times and the economy is not as small as Beijing. Can you imagine how they live?
A large number of people are crowded in simple shack, without clean water, enough food and effective medical treatment. But they have three guns per capita, double the number of guns in the United States ! There are also countless diseases and deaths.
Second, do you still remember what happened from the end of the last century to the beginning of this century? Hong Kong's return in 1999? 911 in 2001? In 2002, the Chinese team entered the World Cup for the first time? I think that the memory of ordinary people is roughly like this, it seems that these are the major events that have happened. But if I tell you, at the same time as these things, there was a war with the most casualties since World War II in remote Africa!
You heard me right. It's not North Korea, it's not Vietnam, it's not Afghanistan, and it's not Iraq. Compared with the world wars in Africa, these are really much more civilized! How did it happen? Let's start with a distant event. King Leopold II of Belgium.
Under the guise of "scientific investigation" and "abolition of slavery", this man occupied the Congo Basin in Central Africa and turned it into his own private property! Please note that it is not a colony of Belgium! Then practice a brutal and inhumane rule, right?
Such brutality will inevitably lead to resistance. In order to disintegrate the Africans, the Belgians created a weird ethnic division. According to the width of the nose, height and skin color of the locals, they were divided into Tutsi and Hutu. The taller and lighter-skinned people are called Tutsi , accounting for 15% of the population, and they are superior. Those with darker complexion and shorter height are called Hutu , accounting for 85% of the population. Then he deliberately favored the Tutsi in all aspects of administration, education, economy, and justice. This is ridiculous! However, the conflict was successfully transferred. By the time the Belgians withdrew, the hatred of the Tutsi and Hutu tribes had been deeply rooted. This directly led to the subsequent massacre of Rwada!
I'll talk about this later. After the massacre, the Tutsi counterattack. The Hutu tribe was defeated and escaped to lead Zaire, which became the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was then used by the local government to continue to confront the Tutsi, and the new Rwandan government also launched a counterattack with other countries.
At the same time, the world's major powers bet on both sides, while supporting the Congolese government, while providing funds for Rwanda and Uganda. At the same time, there are all kinds of armed forces that have been fostered by themselves.
So in 1998, on the rich land of Congo, a melee involving more than 20 armed forces in 9 African countries broke out!
In a war involving tens of millions of people, there are only a handful of battles that can be put on the table, and more of them are the armed bites of various guerrillas. The United Nations has imposed an arms embargo, and there can be no fair arms trade. But just like in the movie, countless "Yuris" are in it, and they are constantly transporting all kinds of equipment. And these guns, artillery, armored vehicles...Most of them originated from the five major countries, or their younger brothers. This is a war without rules, plundering and killing are its only melody, for which it uses everything. After the professional soldiers have finished fighting, the children will join in, just like the rhetoric in the movie-the bullets fired by the children are as deadly as the adults!
The war lasted for five full years, until the armistice agreement was signed in 2003. According to incomplete statistics, the direct death toll has reached 3.5 million! Just this number is the crown of human warfare after World War II! The armistice agreement does not mean the disappearance of the war. Various warlord armed forces continue to clash and continue to this day. According to incomplete statistics, the number of deaths caused by the Congolese war exceeded 5.7 million! 5.7 million people! ! The vast majority of them are civilians! Its bloody and cruel, unprecedented! The weapons and ammunition that killed them were provided by countless "Yuri", and the crackling of those guns seemed to be the laughter of the arms dealer.
Africa’s diamonds, timber, and mines have been exploited in a predatory manner, and no one cares about the future. They were shrouded in inexplicable hatred when they were born, and killing or being killed became the only choice. You might think that arms dealers are too hateful! The weapons they provided killed so many people. Then I want to tell you that the so-called "arms dealers" may be ordinary people around you. Back to the Rwanda massacre that caused the African World War. When the Hutu people were ready to do it, they didn't even have the money to buy enough guns and ammunition, so they could only import cheap machetes from us.
It is this kind of agricultural production equipment, which they falsely claim is prepared for a bumper banana harvest. As a result, bananas became Tutsi. And they used this machete with a cost of only 5 cents to create the most efficient massacre in human history! Every 10 seconds to kill a person, killing at least a full 100 days!
Exactly one million people have been killed! !
This efficiency is twice that of the Nanjing Massacre! ! One-eighth of Rwanda’s population has disappeared, and nearly 500,000 women have been raped. Even AIDS patients are specifically asked to rape Tutsi women, so that they will live in pain for generations... You can't describe those details in words, and I'm afraid that you won't be able to publish the article. But regardless of the number of people killed or the level of barbarism, the Rwanda massacre is the highest in human history!
The darkest moment of mankind.
So, can you say that this is caused by arms dealers? King of War? The true "king of war" should be the hypothalamus in our brains , the brutality and barbarism buried deep in our DNA .
A feast of giants
For all kinds of "Yuri", the melee in Africa is their best market, with low level of consumption and limited but long duration. You don’t need to have advanced armaments, as long as it is sufficient, practical, and easy to use.
But as far as the country is concerned, the pecking at each other of the African kind of chickens is not attractive. Most of those countries are poor, exhausted, and reborn. They have no organizational or financial resources at all, and they can buy mainly light weapons. That little thing can feed the "Yuri" but not the giants. What the giants like most and what they hope most is that both parties involved in the war are rich and have no basic industrial capabilities, and their fights are far from the mainstream world and it doesn't matter. Is there such a war?
have! In the 1980s, a prolonged and equally bloody and brutal war broke out between Iraq and Iran in the Middle East-the war between Iran and Iran! Before the war, both countries were rich in oil. Especially in Iraq, the per capita GDP in 1980 reached 10,000 U.S. dollars! Please note that this is the US dollar in the 1980s, and we have not reached it now. During the Pahlavi dynasty, Iran was a representative of the opening up and progress of the Middle East, and its people lived in a prosperous and stable life.
However, all this came to an abrupt end with the sound of a cannon on September 22, 1980. Without discussing the causes and consequences of the war, we will just talk about the details of the war. Saddam was a superstitious believer in blitzkrieg. At the beginning of the war, he sent a large number of planes to attack Iran. The main force was the MiG-23 of the former Soviet Union .
And Iran is not polite, relying on the US F14 to rise to the attack and gain an advantage.
On the ground, the main forces of Iraqis are the T62 and T72 of the former Soviet Union, as well as the Type 69 of China . Iran is the chief of the United Kingdom and the United States M60
The two sides fought back and forth in the air and on the ground, regardless of the outcome. So he set his sights on the sea, trying to stifle the other side's oil economy. So the crazy ship attack began. Iraq relies on the French Mirage F1 and Flying Fish missiles.
Iran also retaliated, using US F4 and China’s "Silkworm" missiles.
What's more terrifying is that this kind of attack is random and not limited to both sides! Therefore, during the entire period of the war, a total of 547 cruise ships from more than 20 countries in the Persian Gulf were attacked. Among them, the largest ship in human history, the "Sea Giant" with a displacement of up to 840,000 tons was also sunk!
Is this enough? not enough! Both sides used the "Scud" missiles produced by the former Soviet Union for an indiscriminate attack on the city!
Yes, use high-tech weapons to target civilians indiscriminately. Is it enough? not enough! Iraq produced a large number of chemical weapons with equipment imported from the United Kingdom and the United States , and put them into use without hesitation. And Iran is also polite, importing chemical weapons directly from the Soviet Union! Use his own way to treat his own body!
It can be said that if they have nuclear weapons, they will use them without hesitation. Fortunately, the arms dealers of the major countries held the final bottom line and did not open Pandora's Box.
For eight years of fierce battle, the two parties purchased weapons from all the major industrial countries in the world. The Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and us, even Israel and North Korea, can all get a share of it. During the entire war, the military expenditures of both sides approached 200 billion U.S. dollars! Please note that this is the U.S. dollar in the 1980s, multiply by at least 20 according to inflation and exchange rate! That is today's 4 trillion dollars! !
And most of this money is arms purchases! my country alone sold 6 billion rounds of bullets alone! This is an unprecedented crazy arms purchase, and a gluttonous feast for the world's military industry giants! The roar and screams on the battlefield may have turned into the inner joy of the arms dealers.
Their expressions must be the same as "Yuri".
But even so, on the battlefield, group after group of unarmed Iranian teenagers, nearly 13 or 4 years old, chanted slogans and rushed into the minefield with human flesh!
After the thunderstorms, the battlefield was filled with their flesh and blood remnants, as well as the so-called plastic key to "heaven" on their necks.
I don't know whether the "heaven" they agree with exists or not, but I know that at that moment... hell must be on earth! !
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