Actually, Joe Ga was also baffled at the time. He had seen cargo ships loaded with arms before, but he had never seen bulk civilian supplies like this and had no idea what the volume of dozens of cargo ships would be.
Moreover, he wasn't in Basra in the south and didn't have first-hand information.
When those supplies flooded into the Iraqi market like a torrential flood, the local market did indeed collapse.
International trade usually requires payment, but Boss Qiao didn't plan to ask for payment for the first batch because, after all, it wasn't his own money being spent; that money was a pre-paid output from oil fields.
Based on his simple values, he converted the goods into US Dollars at domestic China prices and gave them to the militia organizations that had signed agreements with him.