When you hear the words "bulldozing the Soviet Union in three days, 1,000 soldiers can contain China", will everyone think that the five permanent members are going to fight?Do you think that the United States is going to make trouble again?
Actually, you may not believe it, but the country that said this is just a "small country" - Gambia.
Then why did Gambia dare to "punch" the Soviet Union and "kick" China?This has to start with the country's first **Jawara.
Daouda Kailaba Jawara was the first of the Republic of the Gambia, but this one was anything but ordinary.
Unlike other national elections, ** looks at political ability,Jawara was elected to The Gambia** purely because of his culture.
The Gambia is in an awkward location, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the remaining three sides are surrounded by another country, Senegal, on the east, south and north.
In the century, the Gambia had suffered successive invasions by Portugal, Britain, and France, especially Britain and France, who had moved in The Gambia many times.
In 1783, the Treaty of Versailles (not the Treaty of Versailles after World War I) was signed, giving both sides of the Gambia to Britain and Senegal to France.
In this part of the Gambia, there is no land, no food, no resources, in short: poverty.
The Gambia is classified by the United Nations as one of the least developed countries in the world, and due to its geographical and climatic influences, the Gambia can only survive on agriculture and fishing.
The country's agriculture is still extremely simple, and it can only grow peanuts, and in the event of natural and man-made disasters, it has to rely on food aid from other countries to survive, and the economy naturally cannot be improved.
The majority of the Gambian population does not have the money to get an education, and some even have a high degree after graduating from primary school, so the country has a natural admiration for some literate people.
Jawara relied on his "high education" and special profession to successfully ascend to the top position.
Jawara was born in a wealthy businessman, so he was sent to school to receive an education from an early age, and because of his family's good family conditions, Jawara himself worked harder, so he was later admitted to university, majoring in veterinary medicine.
After graduating from university, Jawara returned to The Gambia and became the first veterinarian in The Gambia.
In the Gambian country, poultry is the "half of the sky" of a family, so the public's favorability towards Jawara, who is a veterinarian, is directly full.
Perhaps he wanted to keep improving, Jawara later went to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland to study veterinary medicine, and finally successfully obtained a doctorate.
It can be seen from Jawara's chosen major that he is basically not interested in politics, but why did he run for ** later?
That's because he met too many politicians from other countries during his studies, which made Jawara gradually yearn for politics.
In 1959, Jawara established the "People's Party of the Protectorate", which was later renamed the "People's Progressive Party", and Jawara served as the general secretary of the party.
At that time, the Gambia was still a colony of the United Kingdom, but the United Kingdom allowed the Gambia to have a "semi-autonomous" chief minister elected through the House of Representatives.
After becoming the general secretary of the People's Progressive Party, Jawara wanted to compete for this position, and with his extensive social network, good mass base and highly educated "trump card", Jawara successfully won the majority of votes.
I thought I could sit in the position of chief minister as I wished, but I didn't expect Britain to step in and appoint another person as minister.
Jawara immediately said that I would quit and lead the People's Progressive Party out of the "semi-autonomous" ** Britain had no choice but to re-elect, and in 1962, Jawara successfully served as the chief minister of the "semi-autonomous" **.
Under Jawara's leadership, The Gambia was "fully self-governing" in 1963, with Jawara as prime minister.
In 1965, the Gambia caught up with the "international trend" and also declared independence. Five years later, The Gambia became independent from the Commonwealth and formed the Republic of The Gambia.
After the establishment of the republic, Jawara was elected as the first ** of the Republic of Gambia, during his reign he did not take sides, did not align, maintained territorial integrity, advocated national independence, can be said to be a very competent **.
However, because the Gambia has been colonized for a long time, when it first became independent, the economic situation in the country was not good, and it became a problem for the people to eat, so the Gambia also needed assistance from other countries, but because of this aid, Jawara also made a big joke.
In 1985, when there were some problems in the aid agreement between the Soviet Union and the Gambia, Jawara made wild claims that he would capture the entire territory of the Soviet Union within three days
Not to mention, the USSR could really bear it.
In 1962, India's sentence "China does not dare to fight him" provoked *** anger, which directly triggered the Sino-Indian war
No, it's only because Jawara is ignorant, and the USSR doesn't care.
At that time, the Soviet Union did not pay attention to him at all, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and even if the Soviet Union was not good, it was not yet to the point where it wanted to take the Gambia in its eyes.
As can be seen from the coup d'état in the Gambia in 1981, the military strength of the Gambia is comparable to that of the Soviet Union, which is simply using chopsticks to pry a big tree.
On July 30, 1981, the Gambian reactionaries staged a coup d'état in the country while Jawara was on his way to England to attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
At that time, the Gambia did not even have a regular army, only 1,200 policemen, of which 400 policemen had defected.
Although the coup d'état was not successful, it also caused cracks in the otherwise stable political situation.
Although Jawara has been doing his best to carry out political and economic reforms, little has been achieved, and the economic crisis has eventually led to a political crisis.
On July 22, 1994, Yahya Jammeh led an army that was very dissatisfied with the arrears of military salaries and invaded the capital Banjul, and Jawara was forced to flee the country until 2002, when he returned to the Gambia as the country's political elder.
But at that time, he was already an "idle prince", and the real ruler became Jammeh.
Jammeh isn't much better than Jawara politically, but in some places, these two ** are quite similar.
First of all, both of them are doctors, but the types are different, one is to treat animals, and the other is to treat people.
In 2007, Yahya Jammeh claimed that she had a mysterious power that could lead to AIDS and asthma.
He caused a long queue outside the parliament building in Banjul, and the doctor had to recommend him or die, a move that also attracted the attention of the World Health Organization.
The World Health Organization has harshly criticized him, and AIDS experts have also criticized Jammeh as irresponsible and talking nonsense, but Jammeh himself continues to "see a doctor" for the people as if he is nothing.
According to eyewitnesses, Jammeh would put his hand under the patient's head when he gave the person, and then read the Quran and smeared the patients with unknown drugs, which Jammeh said would cure the AIDS patient within one day and three days.
Of course, it was later confirmed that this method was indeed a pretending of ghosts, which was not only not beneficial to people's health, but also harmful to health, and later many patients demanded financial and moral compensation from Jammeh.
What's even more staggering is that after Jammeh's aunt died, he decided that her aunt was cursed to death by a witch, so he went on a nationwide hunt for witches, and some of the older ones had to be drugged to make them admit that they were witches, even if they were not witches, which was ridiculous.
The second similarity between Jammeh and Jawara is that they are both the same frivolous and ignorant, Jawara threatened to fight the Soviet Union, and Jammeh followed with his wild words - to send 1,000 people to contain China.
In 2007, Jammeh visited the United States, and he said in talks with Bush Jr., then the United States, that if the situation in the Taiwan Strait changes, he will send troops to attack China's coastal economic zone, and even said that without too many people, a 1,000-strong Marine Corps can completely contain China.
The words quickly spread throughout the country, and China only condemned them in a pretentious manner and did not pursue them further.
In 2011, Jammeh visited the United States again, and the United States at this time was Barack Obama, and this time Jammeh not only had to contain China again, but also cooperated with the United States to eliminate the Afghan Taliban, and his appetite was quite large.
Jammeh also believes that the combat concept of the US ** team is outdated, and it needs to learn the latest combat model of the Gambia, and if the United States wants, it can send officers to the Gambia, and Jammeh can help with training, and Obama "agrees" with this.
And Jammeh said that he wanted to attack China, but he still "cut and tied" with China.
In 1974, the Gambia established diplomatic relations with China, and China has always been very friendly to the outside world, so it has selflessly assisted the Gambia, building stadiums, and helping some people get rich first.
The Gambia has also asked the Taiwan authorities for monetary assistance and debt relief, and Taiwan has even given the Gambia four missile boats.
By 2013, the Gambia had severed diplomatic relations with China, during which the Gambia's relations with Chinese mainland and Taiwan were volatile, and the average person could not imagine what the Gambia's next move would be.
Despite all these jaw-dropping moves, Jammeh still has a very good public opinion within The Gambia.
The leader of a tribe in Gambia praised Jammeh for bringing hope to the Gambia and that only by making him king could the people express their gratitude to him.
It is self-evident why these words were spread, and Jia Mei was not satisfied with being a **, and he still intended to be the king.
A professor named Sene, who specializes in the political situation in The Gambia, pointed out that Jammeh had dressed himself as a "doctor", "elder" and "wise man", and it was not surprising that he wanted to be king now.
In fact, Jammeh is already the "king" of The Gambia, because he has a monopoly on all voiced professions in the Gambia, such as **, opposition, and pastor, and he also controls the treasury.
In 1996, Jammeh was elected to The Gambia** and was re-elected in the 2001, 2006 and 2011 elections.
The most important reason why Jammeh has been able to win so many consecutive terms is that he cleared all the threatening opponents in advance, so he can stand out during the election.
And the most interesting of so many elections is the "marble**" in 2006
This is the most important election method that belongs to the Gambia, because the overall cultural level of the Gambia is not high, and most of the people are illiterate, so the novel "voice counting" is adopted.
The rules are as follows: Voters use glass balls as ballot papers, and the three ** candidates each have three colored drum faces, each drum has a tube on it.
Whoever voters support stands in front of the drum of the corresponding color, puts the glass beads down from the tube, and when the glass beads hit the drum surface, it will make a sound, and the teller will know that the vote has been cast, and if the marbles are stuck, the vote will be invalid.
Such a unique election method is probably only used by Gambia in the world.
However, Jammeh's political career came to an abrupt end in 2016, when he ran for the fifth election.
Jammeh never imagined that a Barrow would pop up at the time of the election, with 4554% of the votes were elected, and presumably not ready to retire, so Jammeh refused to recognize the results and asked for a new one.
Of course, Barrow did not admit this, he felt that since he was the will of the people, Jammeh should hand over power, and Senagal and other countries even sent troops to the Gambia, demanding that Jammeh abide by the constitution and abdicate and hand over power.
The matter was deadlocked until January 21, 2017, when Jammeh saw that the tide was over, so he announced his abdication in the early morning, but he asked his family to move abroad, which was agreed by Gambia**.
On the evening of January 21, 2017, Jammeh left Gambia by plane with his family and cronies and flew to Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
After two absurd **s, the Gambia finally ushered in a normal **.
After Barrow took office, he vigorously developed the economy, and in 2016, The Gambia also re-established diplomatic relations with China, and in 2021, Barrow was re-elected as the Gambia**, and I hope that The Gambia will get better and better under the leadership of Barrow.
The two Gambian ** have not been hit by the Soviet Union and China, which seems to be very lucky, but in fact it is very sad.
Because the Soviet Union and China did not regard the Gambia as an adversary at that time, even the United States, which has always been arrogant, only laughed when it heard about the Gambia's provocation, which shows that the Gambia is basically no threat in the face of the big powers.
If you want others to look up to it, you must first make yourself strong, China was bullied by the world because of its weak national strength, but China stood up, China used its own strength to let the whole world look up, we can have the attitude of not letting others be afraid, but we can't have the strength not to let others be afraid.
Truth is always within cannon range, and if Jawara and Jammeh could understand that, they might not be able to say such ridiculous words.