The TV speeches have been arranged long ago, and Zhou Yongtao just read them according to the manuscript.

Because the news had already spread and the TV station also made relevant reports, the Prime Minister's TV speech did not cause much trouble.

For the military and civilians of the empire, fighting is not something worth making a fuss.

According to the comments of the TV station, in the more than ten years after the Bosnia War, except for sending troops to Sri Lanka to pacify the military coup, the empire had never experienced other regional wars worth mentioning. Instead, it was the Taurus Empire and the Newland Republic, which directly or indirectly participated in several wars.

As for the history of the empire, it is very rare to have not fought for more than ten years!

Don’t forget that the Liangxia Empire was born in the Naval Battle of Nanjiangkou, developed and grew and strengthened during the Liangluo War, and became the world overlord during the two wars.

The last time such a long peace occurred was the "20-year truce" between the two wars.

After finishing, Zhou Yongtao returned to the study.

His mood was very complicated, not because he had just finished reading the speech he had prepared in front of the camera, but because he discussed the voting of the two houses.

Although Zhou Yongtao had known three days ago that he would definitely get the war authorization, that is, most members of the House of Representatives expressed their support for the Prime Minister's proposal for war, what Zhou Yongtao did not expect was that he actually received unanimous support in the final vote.

No one MP voted against it!

This is so abnormal!

Fifty years ago, Xue Yuanzheng received unanimous support in the votes of the two houses of discussion because the Nayi Empire fought unannounced and attacked Chengjiang Military Port!

Can this be compared?

The Iraqi army not only did not attack the empire's homeland, nor did it attack the empire's overseas military bases, but Kuwait was not a contracting ally of the empire.

In addition, the Imperial Royal Family's security assurance for the Kuwait royal family was not broken, and members of the Kuwait royal family, including Abbas III, have arrived in Riyadh safely.

Why do thousands of members of the two houses of discussion support war on Iraq?

Obviously, this is enough to illustrate a problem.

The internal contradictions in the empire have become so serious that they need to be alleviated through war.

The most serious thing is actually economic problems.

In terms of root, it is also related to Zhou Yongtao.

Six years ago, after moving into the official residence of the Chief Supervisor, Zhou Yongtao's first thing was not to authorize the Marines to take action in Sri Lanka, but to initiate the construction of a strategic defense system code-named "Skynet" and begin to build the so-called national strategic defense system.

At that time, this incident triggered global public opinion.

According to Western media comments, if the Liangxia Empire took the lead in establishing a national strategic defense system and gained the strategic strike capabilities built on this system, it would have the absolute advantage of launching a comprehensive strategic strike against any opponent without worrying about being counterattacked.

Simply put, it breaks the strategic balance formed by the three-legged tripod.

In theory, whether it is the Tauman Empire or the Newland Republic, due to the lack of equal counterattack methods, they will lose to the Liangxia Empire in the next battle.

In fact, after gaining a strategic attack method that almost crushed the advantages, the Liangxia Empire was able to launch wars at will.

The key here is actually to expand the arms race to the space field.

However, what happened later, the military coup in Sri Lanka successfully diverted the public's attention.

But the problem is that the arms race that has lasted for more than 30 years has escalated.

In the same year, Newland Federation took the lead in launching a strategic plan code-named "Star Wars", which was actually aimed at the empire's "Skynet".

The following year, the Torai Empire also launched a strategic plan code-named "Ragainst the Gods".

In the following years, three super hegemonies successively made efforts in the space field.

Of course, the leader of the Liangxia Empire has always been the one who led the way.

In the past few years, the Empire not only launched dozens of military reconnaissance satellites of the "Sky Eye" series, but also mastered the global space reconnaissance capabilities for the first time, but also officially launched the construction of a global navigation satellite system code-named "Compass", completing the comprehensive coverage of the local area.

As for communication satellites, the network has been deployed long ago.

Of course, in contrast, there are high military expenditures.

During the six years of Zhou Yongtao's rule, the increase in the imperial military expenditure has remained above 15%, basically four times the economic growth rate.

Last year, the empire's defense budget had reached 640 billion gold, accounting for 30% of the central government's budget!

In the 143rd year of the New Calendar, the year before Zhou Yongtao came to power, the imperial defense budget was only 230 billion gold. Even if inflation was included, it was only equivalent to the 300 billion epoch in the 149th year of the New Calendar. If we go further, in the last year of the Second Global War, the imperial war expenditure was less than 60 billion gold, equivalent to 880 billion gold in the 149th year of the New Calendar, and it accounted for only 30% of the central budget.

Such huge military expenditure will inevitably lead to serious social problems.

Zhou Yongtao knew best about this.

However, this is also the key.

The launch of the "Skynet" strategy does not really mean to obtain strategic strike capabilities based on space, and it cannot be achieved technically.

The plan has two purposes.

Military things are actually to expand into space, accelerate the process of the third round of military changes that have begun, and enhance the empire's military strength.

Among them, the "Compass" satellite navigation system is the most important.

The next generation of reconnaissance, communication, intelligence, command and strike systems led by the Air Force and participated by the Navy and the Army. The most difficult and slowest progress is the global navigation and positioning system.

The purpose beyond military affairs is actually to force the Republic of Newland and the Empire to follow up and put pressure on the two opponents economically.

In addition, it is to increase the weight of technology in the arms race.

This is a war between economy and technology.

Last year, the military expenditure of the Republic of Newland exceeded 500 billion dollars, accounting for 40% of the federal government's fiscal budget and as much as 8% of the national economy.

The defense expenditure of the Tauman Empire also reached 850 billion Jinmak, accounting for 45% of the fiscal budget and more than 10% of the national economy.

In peacetime, this is absolutely an unbearable burden.

In Zhou Yongtao's words, this will be the last round of arms race before the Third Global War, because the super hegemony that cannot be supported will definitely start a war.

Fundamentally, this is also the key to the Tauman Empire instigating the Hussein regime to launch a war.

It is not difficult to understand why the great masters of the two houses were so active and enthusiastic about sending troops to Posa Bay and liberating Kuwait.

This also involves a very sensitive issue.

That's right, it is inflation caused by a huge deficit budget, that is, currency depreciation.

The empire's fiscal deficit has exceeded 20% for six consecutive years, and its current debt ratio is equivalent to 240% of the government's annual revenue.

In order to balance the budget, the empire has been issuing more currencies over the past six years.

If the global trade settlement system had not been controlled, especially the major oil-producing countries, all settled in gold yuan, the imperial financial system would have collapsed long ago.

Of course, in the end, it is actually serious inflation, or overcapacity.

The key is here!

To eliminate inflation, solve the excess capacity, and use up a large amount of hoarded surplus materials, the only option is to fight a large number of war.

What you want to say is the root cause.

Facing this problem is not only the empire, but also the Great Man Empire and the Newland Republic.

In fact, this also proves from one aspect that the current situation cannot be maintained at all, and a super hegemony will inevitably fall in the end!

Only by sacrificing a super hegemony can the global economy return to normal.

Is this scene similar?

However, this is also what Zhou Yongtao is most worried about.

Needless to say, the Thuman Empire did not directly participate in the war, and would support the Hussein regime in different ways and vigorously support Syria in the west.

The key is actually the Republic of Newland.

To put it bluntly, if the arms dealers in the Republic of Newland wanted to make a fortune in the war, they might encourage Bo Yi to join the war.

Secret agreement?

Obviously, it's just a piece of paper!

As long as the Newland authorities nodded and the Newland arms dealers provided support, the militants of the Boy country would open fire on Liang Xia's fleet as soon as possible.

If you really get to this point, a great war will inevitably be inevitable.

But what's the use of worrying?

As Lin Shiping said, the only thing the imperial authorities can decide is to do their best to fight this battle well, show the huge improvement brought by the second military revolution after the war, let the opponent recognize the gap with the Liangxia Empire, and thus dispel the idea of ​​expanding the scale of the war.

When Luo Youbin came in, more than ten minutes had passed.

"Is it started?"

Luo Youbin nodded and said, "I just received the news that our fighter jets shot down two invading Iraqi fighter jets in Kuwait airspace."

“Did we lose?”

“No report of war damage was received.”

Only then did Zhou Yongtao breathe a sigh of relief.

"General Shi Suliang will officially announce the establishment of a no-fly zone after 10 am local time."

"Let him do it, remember to notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
To be continued...