The Red Alert Begins in the Wasteland

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After Iraq cut off all sources of income from state-owned enterprises in the occupied territories, the Islamic State also tried to generate electricity and water from the beginning.

But it's just a drop in the bucket. The water supply time is less than an hour a day, and the amount of water is pitifully small.

Power generation is similar. In the first few days, there are still five or six hours of power supply every day.

In less than ten days, the electricity supply was reduced to less than one hour a day.

After insisting on it for less than three days, he simply asked those in the occupied area to buy generators at their own expense.

A diesel engine costs about sixty dollars, and the fuel is fairly cheap.

But for most of the households in the occupied territories, the monthly income is only 100 US dollars. A family of four eats three meals a day, and it costs 60 US dollars a month at the most economical time.

This was followed by the Iraqi government's comprehensive commercial cumbersomeness against the Islamic State. This blockade was almost to the extent that only those Silk Road trading tribes who could not afford to offend were allowed to communicate freely.

An inevitable result of the increasing shortage of daily necessities is that prices are inflated, and merchants take the opportunity to stock up for sale.

This is inevitable. There is no place where businessmen of an era would not do it.

The same is true in the ISIS-occupied areas. The local people have not only cut off water and electricity, but fortunately the wages they earn by working hard cannot even afford three meals a day.

In just a few months, the Islamic State’s occupation of the territory in Iraq has turned upside down.

The Islamic State has also taken decisive measures to increase the number of troops. Those who serve in the Islamic State armed groups can not only receive an absolute high salary of 600 US dollars a month.

Military family members can also receive a subsidy of 50 US dollars every month, can go to school for free, and have sufficient running water and electricity every day.

This has led to a large number of young people flocking to the recruitment point, which has brought about the rapid expansion of the Islamic State armed forces.

But what followed was that the cost of recruiting and raising soldiers rose sharply. The original rigid expenditure of at least US$1 billion a year would have to increase by at least US$400 to 500 million.

Still the same topic before. That is the source of the Islamic State's economy. Completely entered the income beyond making ends meet.

The first is the lack of taxation from the Iraqi government on the salaries of state-owned enterprise workers.

There is also a rapid decline in taxes due to the economic weakness of the occupied territories.

In the beginning, the Islamic State almost implemented a low-tax policy in the occupied areas to gain popular support.

just now. Taxation has returned to a normal state, and everything must be taxed.

Although it has not yet reached the point where it can catch fish. But it also made the local people complain.

But for the Islamic State, the real disaster is a serious failure to make ends meet, which is devoted to basic social life services in the occupied areas every year. A large amount of expenditure is required, which is also a rigid expenditure.

People without basic living guarantee. There is no need to wait for the Iraqi government forces, and armed resistance will be brewing directly.

And for those tribes on the Silk Road, ISIS did not dare to offend in the slightest.

You know in the Middle East. The most fierce ones are not the government forces, nor the armies of various countries. It is these tribes on the ancient Silk Road.

Even Saddam, who was the toughest back then, was polite to these tribes and treated them with the lowest taxes.

After the US military occupied Iraq. They have never stepped into these tribal areas, and have never embarrassed the tribal areas for business convoys, and the air force has avoided these tribal areas as much as possible.

No forces in the Middle East will be enemies of these people in the tribal areas of the Silk Road.

Because this is a group of unprovoked lunatics, everyone with guns, absolutely true fighting nation.

Whoever affects the normal business operations of the tribes will be attacked by all tribes.

Therefore, the Islamic State also uses the lowest tax model to get along with these tribes on the Silk Road.

In terms of taxation, the Islamic State has begun to enter a serious imbalance of income and expenditure, and the basic social security of investment cannot be stopped.

As a result, daily expenditures, together with military expenditures, require at least three billion U.S. dollars.

In terms of revenue, tax revenue is about one billion yuan, plus crude oil revenues of almost five to six billion yuan each year, which is half of the total.

In the first year of the Islamic State's prosperity, between income and expenditure, it made a profit of more than one billion.

There is also a large amount of overseas financial support, even now, there are almost 100 million yuan of foreign power financial support every year.

Coupled with the crazy expansion of the Islamic State at that time, the smuggling of Iraqi cultural relics, the occupation and seizure of government property, banks, and a large arsenal of weapons.

With all kinds of kidnapping and extortion, the income at that time was indeed very rich.

But now, because of various Russian air strikes every day, there are even bombers joining the bombing ranks every day.

As a result, the armed forces of the Islamic State have lost a lot of heavy weapons.

At that time, the Islamic State also quickly adjusted its strategy, but it adjusted a path of strategic shift that made the situation worse.

That is to commit terrorist attacks abroad. The Paris attack in France is the best representative.

But it also led to NATO counterattacks. The United States, which had turned a blind eye to the Islamic State oil smuggling routes before, directly led the bombing of the convoys of those international oil dealers.

As a result, Russia followed happily, and in just a few days, the biggest source of income for the Islamic State was hit hard.

Even the domestic oil smuggling route in Turkey has been warned by the United States to let the Turks converge.

The Islamic State, whose economy has fallen into a cold winter, has not stopped continuing to create terrorist incidents around the world~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to obtain more international financial aid, and on the other hand, it has to start to really think of ways to relieve economic pressure.

Because Syria has also begun to learn from the Iraqi government, it has stopped all payment of wages to the occupied areas and blocked normal business transactions.

The war fought is the economy, this is the eternal truth.

What the Islamic State has to do now is to use the means of war and plunder once again to ease the economic pressure.

I dare not really increase the tax revenue of the occupied areas and fish for fear of causing armed resistance from the people, and dare not to offend the Silk Road tribes for fear of attracting armed attacks from the Silk tribes.

Rigid expenditure is absolutely necessary, otherwise the huge Islamic State will directly perish.

So the road to war is in front of you. The wealth of a city, the foreign exchange reserves and gold in the bank, the smuggling of cultural relics, and blackmailing the rich are all means to get money in a short time.

The Islamic State, which has been working for several years, is also very familiar with this. (To be continued.) Enable new URL