But Britain relied on the United States to win the war, so the economy had to be controlled by American finance, and London, the world financial center, was gradually replaced by new york. The United States vigorously developed shipping and began to compete with Britain for control of oil resources. In the decade after World War I, facing the huge oil reserves of the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States tried their best to destroy the German-Russian alliance.
Britain and the United States joined forces to suppress Germany by economic and military means, and to support Hitler's coming to power to cope with the rise of the Soviet Union. 1927, Britain and the United States formed an oil cartel, and since then they have become oil partners, manipulating the world's oil resources.
2. After World War II, Britain and the United States began to jointly use finance and oil to obtain huge economic benefits. The United States has become the real world hegemon, and the West led by the United States and the East of the Soviet Union have become the bastions of opposition. 1944, the Bretton Woods system was established in western countries, and the actual voting control in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank was in the hands of the United States and Britain.
The dollar gold standard was established. In the middle of the 20th century, both Britain and America suffered from economic recession and political turmoil. The Franco-German alliance led by Charles de Gaulle and Adenauer was finally strangled by the United States and Britain. The United States launched the Vietnam War. 1960 In September, five major oil exporting countries jointly established the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), with the purpose of jointly dealing with western oil companies and ensuring oil revenue.
3. After1969, the American economy declined further. The United States began to create an oil embargo, raise oil prices, manipulate large-scale anti-nuclear movements, create a horrible atmosphere of economic growth limits, control the world oil circulation, and gain huge benefits from oil premiums. The petrodollar system carefully designed by the United States and Britain swept wealth around the world.
Britain and the United States suppressed all independent development forces such as developing countries, countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, emerging European forces and encirclement and suppression of Iran. In the 1980s, Britain and the United States were in trouble in financial diplomacy, and at the same time, they were caught in an economic crisis, which forced the third world into a full-scale debt crisis. Iran's oil shock triggered the oil crisis, forcing developing countries to borrow to make up the oil deficit.
However, the high interest rate policy in Britain and the United States has led to an increase in the foreign debt of developing countries, which has become unbearable. 199 1 year, the United States launched the first Iraq war for oil. The United States is establishing a so-called "new world order".
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the world power structure has undergone fundamental changes. In order to maintain its hegemony in the world, the United States attacked from all sides, suppressed and disintegrated various possible new forces:
Japan's economic bubble, the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the economic shock of Russia, the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the destruction of Balkan countries were all carefully planned by the United States, and all potential emerging forces were American rivals. The deep relationship between the government and oil determines that the core of American economic and foreign policy is oil.
When oil is about to reach the capacity limit, the United States brazenly launched the Iraq war at all costs, which shows its true intention: to try its best to lock in every major oil-producing area, control the world oil, manipulate the price, and realize oil geopolitics in the new century.
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Oil War is the result of the author's concern for the geopolitics of world oil for many years. The book "Oil War" depicts a vivid scene of geopolitical struggle around oil among international financial groups, oil oligarchs and major western countries, and reveals the seemingly simple and profound internal relationship between oil and the US dollar.
This paper analyzes the real reasons behind major historical events such as the oil crisis, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Falklands War, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the reunification of Germany, and shows us the soul-stirring struggle history around oil for more than a century.
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