King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer
Chapter 901 - 812: Can You Bear It?

It's going to take some time for Joe's scheme against the Kurdish people to ferment...

The surfing speed of netizens worldwide is not the same, and for many years, media dominated by Europe and America have shaped the image of the Syrian Kurds as indomitable fighters. To reverse this ingrained perception in people's minds requires enough time.

The Kurdish people indeed are a warrior nation, but the role Europe and America have assigned to them has always been as a pawn to restrain the Arab people in the Middle East.

When some of them place all their hopes on America, wishing to establish a camaraderie in battle with them, they have already lost much.

History has already provided the answer. When the Middle East firmly implements the petrodollar system without wavering, the Kurds suffer terribly.

When America needs a certain place in the Middle East to descend into chaos, the Kurds go to war, and their civilians suffer even more.

Did they do something wrong?

Ideally, no!

But looking at the results and future possibilities, well...

Not all Kurds want to fight, and 'statehood' is not a necessity for most of them; safety and stability are.

Any 'minority' that gains international support will start negotiating with their mother country, and this has become a standard practice.

The more valiant ethnic groups tend to be the primary targets of attraction for Europe and America...

Find a few who are treated unfairly, put them on TV, and then amplify their grievances.

Then, by leveraging superior media resources, they can 'convict' certain countries, thereby obtaining favorable political chips and even overthrowing other countries' governments.

And the reason they do all this, when you get down to it, is for economic interests!

It's no exaggeration to say that all the major developed countries in Europe and America, every single one of them, if they want to maintain their high levels of welfare, need to extract resources from third-world countries.

If you don't let me extract, I'll find a reason to mess with you!

Why is Europe and America particularly disdainful of 'dictatorships' but turn a blind eye to the bizarre 'dictators' in Africa, intent only on taking out Gaddafi?

Mobutu, with his leopard-print ruling over Congo, was like that, yet no European or American jumped out to take him down.

Maybe what they truly despise isn't dictatorship per se, but the national political synergy created by 'dictatorship', which hinders their extraction process.

Only when there are two or multiple parties restraining each other do Europe and America have room to manipulate, because internal friction inevitably leads to some level of compromise.

If we judge democracy and freedom by the standards of Britain and America, then there are over a hundred democratic and free countries in the world, but only a handful of them are truly developed.

This is the political dividend born of finance, media, military, and most crucially, thinking habits.

When China enters the era of global competition, even a hint of freeing itself from control is met with immense pressure and strikes.

Global competition unfolds on a national scale, and no one involved can escape. Success or failure affects everyone!

If we lose, we either revert to decades past overnight or...

Imagine a day when your housing prices are determined by Superman Li, and grain prices are set by the Big Four grain merchants?

The saddest part is, some people have been brainwashed for so long, they develop a blind zeal for European and American systems, as if those places were paradise on Earth.

There's no denying many aspects of Europe and America are very good. In practice, their electoral systems have repeatedly boosted their welfare.

Politicians who want to be elected have to make promises to attract votes.

But fulfilling those promises means touching some people's interests, such as raising workers' wages and benefits, leading to industrial capital fleeing from Europe and America.

For instance, excessive public spending results in huge fiscal deficits, causing many European countries to live on loans.

Public facilities going decades without updates can still be praised for having historical significance, and there are always people ready to buy into that story...

Greece, famously known as the country of 'Hu Lang's' passport, is a classic example.

The consequence of national bankruptcy is a mass stripping of quality assets to pay off debts. Medical care, pensions, education, and a series of other public services all face problems.

It's the integration of the European Union that has given those countries a lifeline. These second-tier European countries rely on trade within the Europe Division and the advantages of the euro, managing to scrape by under the protection from trade barriers and avoiding American exploitation.

Why do we see the paradox of people using cheap Chinese goods while shouting anti-China slogans?

The reason lies in the fact that some have started to realize that industry can genuinely create jobs and wealth. Pure service industries are rootless duckweed.

They want industrial backflow and higher employment rates, so they need to be anti-China.

Otherwise, even if factories return, they won't be competitive without trade barriers.

The political costs of the model Europe and America run are astronomically high, making it difficult for them to reverse course.

In a society dominated by financial capital, once growth stalls, the financial bubble becomes a significant hidden danger.

If the costs cannot be shifted, inflation alone can evaporate a large portion of most people's assets.

China took on America's burden during the 2008 financial crisis, and some American politicians even touted the G2 slogan of America and China, implying the invincibility of America and China combined.

Some people actually believed it!

You exploit your own workers to provide cheap goods to America, then use the earned US dollars to buy American bonds.

You get skinned twice over yet shamelessly praise their skillful 'painless' flaying.

What kind of spirit is this?

Korea and the Island Nation are such cases. When China proposed East Asia intra-regional trade to be less exploited by America, they eagerly stepped forward.

Even as waves of Japanese and Korean politicians died, the intra-regional trade progress had not completely halted.

As 'lapdogs,' they all know to look out for themselves, yet some people, acting like 'tenant farmers,' are more concerned about whether the landlord's family can live well...

It's ridiculous!

The current leaders of the Syrian Kurds are just like that...

If a dirty bomb were to be detonated, it would be in America, what does it have to do with you?

Watching as numerous Kurdish villages are bloodily purged, watching blankly as people from the 'Safety Zone,' in order to cover for the evacuation and resettlement of civilians from the combat zone, began to run out of resources but still refused to act, this damn...

Joe Ga, regarding such situations, never indulges them, thus it was a natural choice to escalate the dilemma of the Syrian Kurds.

P·B has no beef with the Syrian Government, so Joe Ga doesn't oppose giving a hand from the sidelines.

Everyone forms a good karmic connection, which is convenient for later in-depth cooperation.

Of course, that's for later. Right now, Joe Ga is facing a bunch of soldiers with red eyes from being held back.

Ever since those mercenaries appeared, the phones in Mosul and Baghdad haven't stopped ringing.

Nora's self-propelled artillery position asked if they should fire a warning shot, and Baghdad's air force asked if they should scramble their F-16?

And what about the people in the villages...

"FUCK, let them in, I want to hang them from the trees with my own hands..."

When Joe Ga entered the temporary canteen, he heard 'Gunpowder' from 'Dagger Squad' roaring...

This guy has a crappy cowboy temper, and after doing manual labor for too many days, he's completely lost his last bit of patience.

Joe Ga took a meal box from Solon's hand and got a dinner, smiling and saying, "Can't eat too much today, there's action tonight..."

The veteran squad leader Solon nodded slightly and gave him a bowl of vegetable soup, saying, "These clueless creatures aren't worth fussing over, but since we've decided to let them through, eat less greasy stuff, drink more soup.

After tonight's over, I'll prepare some late-night snacks for everyone."

While speaking, Solon, looking at Joe Ga's contented face, suddenly lowered his voice and leaned into Joe Ga's ear, saying, "Back home, they sent the Winged Dragons that were to be delivered to Liberia to Basra. They're currently loading them for transport to Baghdad, only there are the conditions to establish a drone base.

My old leader asked me to check with you, can you handle it?"

Joe Ga was taken aback and then shook his head with a wry smile, saying, "What a question. If I say I can't handle it, I'd be lying, but if I say I can, am I not going to miss out on something?"

Solon shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know. It just seems as if they want to send you something.

There are many things I don't understand. You're the boss. It's up to you..."

Speaking that, Solon leaned into Joe Ga's ear again, whispering, "The folks who are coming are from the Pakistani Taliban, they've been restless lately and now, to raise funds, they're actually sending people to work in Syria.

My old leader asked me, are six Winged Dragons enough to kill them?"

Upon hearing this, Joe Ga exclaimed with admiration, "Wow, how is the news back home even more current than mine? What's going on?"

Solon spread his hands with an innocent look, saying, "I don't know either, but it seems from what I heard, they've been watched since they left."

Joe Ga looked at Solon with an 'uninformed' face, thought for a moment, and finally shook his head...

Being watched since they left and observed all the way to Syria...

Could there be no fishy business going on?

China is too by-the-book, which results in their weak control over foreign terrorist organizations.

Bata is not too friendly towards Chinese people, having attacked Chinese construction crews many times.

Joe Ga felt that if Bata's thugs could make it to Syria smoothly, maybe China was guarding their backs to facilitate their arrival to die.

Otherwise, these thugs should have been discovered as soon as they entered Basra from the sea. Only China's logistics convoys could provide them with sufficient cover.

Thinking about China indirectly dispatching people to spend money to hire Bata to die in Syria made Joe Ga want to laugh...

There's a saying, 'great minds think alike,' nowhere is more suitable than Syria right now for settling old scores.

With six Winged Dragons plus an unspecified number of Blue Arrow Missiles, the total price is 25 million US dollars.

Whether it's sponsorship mixed with hardship fee, or hardship fee mixed with sponsorship, it's no longer necessary to fuss over it.

Joe Ga personally doesn't appreciate this vague approach, but he can understand China's predicaments.

Ordinary people always like to fantasize that there is a Chinese military force wreaking havoc around the world, but in reality, with the sensitivity of Europeans and Americans, if such a force existed, it could not be hidden.

China's expansion has taken place under the encirclement of the West, including betrayal by allies from third world countries, suppression, and failed investments...

Now, China is using its advantageous capital and technology to support and expand markets, being more concerned about its international image at the present stage.

Because the right to speak is in the hands of Westerners!

This is beneficial for the current Joe Ga, the more ambiguous they behave, it means they can accept the same ambiguity from P·B.

This 'ambiguity' represents a kind of cooperation that transcends legal limits.

For example, if Chinese people encounter danger overseas, P·B could intervene with excessive force.

China might even come out to condemn it, then Joe Ga could curse back a few words, and happily accept the 'compensation' obtained from other places.

Such cooperation will always be profitable for P·B, because everyone wants different things!