Why the US launched devastating wars in Iraq in 1991 and 2003 | Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC

“The bombing campaign that the United States unleashes on Iraq for one month, we bombed the hell out of the country, has no reasonable explanation, other than we just wanted to test weapons systems and kill as many people as we could.”
Prof Roy Casagranda unpacks the cynical logic that the US used to wage wars in Iraq that devastated the country and horrendously impacted millions of Iraqis.
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[@Boycott-if4eg]

Ban AIPAC

[@Memoiana]

The US deep state is responsible, whether there is an aipac or not

[@kevindean1327]

Who’s going to ban Miriam Adelson?

[@edgarvonboltzmann7465]

Won't help.

[@Boycott-if4eg]

@@kevindean1327 USA and WASrael, so many prostitutes, so very little honor 😔 it’s a national disgrace how easily prostitutes are bought. And even more depressing, that they’re re-elected via cheating once they’ve proven their treasonous loyalty to WASrael. It leaves us only one way left to escape tyranny 🩸

[@sylviewalker7560]

Kapitalism Kills kids fyi

[@faiqaini4551]

It’s so sad millions and millions innocent people died

[@Corpselordx]

All for Israel..

[@R1GAMBLER]

tikkun olam 🩸

[@hassanharith6820]

Geopolitics is just division of leadership & political interests....still ' War is lucrative businesses for the elites/ m. i. c. . . . disgusting. Deceptions & false flags at it finest,....( ie;. . . W. M. D.,..and/or Regime Change - why there's NO regime change to JUNTA in Myanmar & or DPRK then?).

[@Yoyoyo224]

correction millions were exterminated

[@tracysauvage1351]

​@@Yoyoyo224yes..they didn't just mysterious die...they were murdered... By the good old US of A... How in the name of God am I supposed to have any respect for anything the US government says.

[@ricosauve5]

What never gets mentioned in mainstream was the kuwait slant drilling

[@mariosmarchi4281]

Professor Roy Casagranda is admirable

[@auntiesemite9295]

I'm just surprised that bush kr and netanyahu haven't received nobel peace prizes yet.

[@francisboulangere7628]

Testing grounds for new weapons systems.

[@halloola3636]

Wolfowitz doctrine, Saddam was going to sell oil for € instead if $.

[@christiancommunistpartyoft8691]

Great information, thanks for this interview !!

[@auntiesemite9295]

The Professor is really knowledgeable. Insha'Allah bush sr, rumsfeld and powell already know Jahannam awaits.

[@adamharris1406]

The U.S. was making Israel safe when they attacked Iraq, even though Israel can not be made safe.

[@jibriilmohamed6080]

😂😂😂😂

[@latetotheparty184]

Where in this interview did he say it was about Israel? It was about oil wealth and securing oil supplies for the US.

[@pumasheen]

@@latetotheparty184 At 8:26 he says the US planned to make Israel safe by encircling it with captured, US-controlled territory

[@halloola3636]

@@latetotheparty184 So what? Netanjahu promised that the Middle East would be much safer if U$ took out Saddam.

[@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721]

@@latetotheparty184 No, it wasn't. He's a gatekeeper. There is a video on GDF channel "War in Iraq wasn't about oil" that debunks all this pathetic gatekeeping. Christopher Bollyn already exposed it with highly rated books years ago. It's all wars for Israel based on 2 strategies written by zionists in 90s: Clean Break by Douglas Feith ("official" architect of the Iraq war which this clown in the video won't even mention) and Greater Isreal by Oded Yinon. EVERYTHING that happened since 2001 happened exactly as written in these documents. Everybody can read it to get a clue. US military is pursuing zionist military doctrine of demilitarization and "balkanization" of Israel's adversaries. AND IT'S STILL CONTINUING. Why do you think US is still in Syria, stealing oil and training militants against Assad? Iraq/Syria were the main targets of these doctrines .... hahahaha gummy

[@shanti888]

Brilliant explanation. Thank you for this clarification

[@sabrichaabani5841]

Welcome to american democracy & human rights.

[@Cloudchopper-x1r]

And they pretend that Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East.

[@brianm9137]

Growing up is realising the red,blue and white western superheroes are actually Satan in earthly form

[@donnrutherford7059]

Its fascism heavily disguised as democracy which in turn is a disguise for an oligarchy

[@marvinbrando722]

exactly. But more funny is that even Arabs believe in that

[@Hope4human]

On what planet does democracy equal apartheid and genocide

[@James_Ford4815]

The F up Z brain knows no bounds

[@phaedrussmith1949]

I suppose it's because "democracy" isn't actually what we think it is.

[@TeacherTom1]

planet USofA & Co.

[@kevindean1327]

Planet USI. United States of Israel.

[@edgarvonboltzmann7465]

A planet that has YTs on it.

[@Handle1969]

Didn’t know the slant drilling story. This changes a lot. Scott Ritter was right.

[@meequalsmc2]

The accumulation of knowledge this guy has is astounding..

[@user-bu8vk9lo5z]

Americans also stole a lot from the Babylon in Iraq, tons and tons of artifacts and etc were taken

[@EdwardAppleby-xk1yq]

why?

[@user-bu8vk9lo5z]

@ greed

[@andriy1958]

​@@EdwardAppleby-xk1yqartifact = money

[@abdallahkabuto8392]

Thieves ,from oil,Gold artefacts ,etc have insatiable greed for others wealth.

[@halloola3636]

@@EdwardAppleby-xk1yq Greed and to delete history and culture.

[@katiekane5247]

What's ironic is it's all about oil and if we didn't use so much invading countries, defending and staffing hundreds of bases, we'd have enough oil 😕

[@James_Ford4815]

there's other trillion dollar resources that are also war worthy (cough cough the trillions worth of lithium in d0nbas) (and no joke it seems there's so much resources in the d0nbas region usa is willing to risk mankinds existence over it)

[@abumansaray7]

It's about revenue, not oil. Oil is just very lucrative. Most importantly, it's about using tax payers money to make private entities wealthier. So it's a form of money transfer (Military industrial complex). Moreover, American imperialism and global hegemony plays a huge role. Therefore, it is also about subverting these countries and maintaining Western/American global dominance.

[@abumansaray7]

It's not just about oil.

[@TeacherTom1]

Full Spectrum Dominance

[@bigby7712]

It’s not oil, it’s about creating the grater Israel. The state of Israel is not happy with their current territory they want most of the Middle East

[@Nebuchadnezzar18]

I'm an Iraqi who was in Iraq at that time. Saddam Hussien never said "I will annex Kuwait" to April Galaspi.

[@binhilabi]

Pls tell what happened ?

[@Nebuchadnezzar18]

@binhilabi he complained about Kuwait affecting the Iraqi economy and causing damage to Iraqi oil industry along with territory disputes.

[@binhilabi]

@Nebuchadnezzar18 ok but what made he take decision of taking them. I heard tht in a meeting Kuwti ministe or head insulted irqi women when he asked for monetary relief due to there war with Irn.

[@komninosm]

​​@@binhilabi good questions 🎉

[@noonnaz]

How well informed and honest

[@Slower..-go1ch]

No justice no peace.

[@MichaelFalveyTywardreath]

This whole presentation is a masterpiece. I highly recommend that it is viewed in its entirety in one take. It plays like a symphony with the undulating melody of the historical narrative finally arriving at an emotional crescendo aching for our common humanity. Powerful and heartbreaking.

[@wswanberg]

There's another factor not mentioned in this analysis. The collapse of the Soviet Union meant that the Cold War was coming to an end, and with it all the lucrative contracts of the US defense contractors. After Viet Nam, the US Defense Department totally changed their training and recruiting strategies, becoming a much more professional fighting force, as evidenced in the 1989 invasion of Panama. So all the pieces were in place for the neocons to create the state of "forever war" where constant low-grade conflicts would necessitate more and more US war materiel, thus the US defense contractors could maintain their gravy train, and all it would cost is a few hundred thousand brown people's lives in the Middle East and Asia.

[@alexmaroni4475]

what brown people, most were white in asia and the middle east, its all for the befit of Israel and jew businessman to make money. The real american is brainless and easily misled

[@finddeniro]

Soviet Union Falls...I shook my Head .Stared at the Sky..Moscow WILL Want Ukraine..Stalin Did..

[@matthewcunningham5069]

Panama, I’d say, was more psychotic than professional. They torched a $h¡t-ton of civilians just for a petty drug generalissimo’s running and hiding petty Praetorian Gaurds . What did they think? They were carrying drug receipts signed by Poppy?

[@scogginsscoggins]

It is useful to acknowledge that Kuwait had previously been a province of Iraq and had been illegally given its independence by the British colonial occupation.

[@captaind4982]

Kuwait was established 500 years ago when Iraq was under ottoman control , so no Kuwait was never a Provence of Iraq

[@tonjamarshall4842]

For the same reason why it's giving money to Israel.

[@Madasin_Paine]

And because the UK France and the US are in such dire financial straits and obligations that they continue to do what they've always done for thousands of years. Steal the wealth habitat and Humanity from anyone they can and convert it at 1¢ to the dollar, for THEIR PERSONAL addictions to power property and per ver shuns. The mentality is the kind that steals 100 trillion, hold on to it for hundreds of years, and tell the world their bankrupt and they have to cut off benefits for everybody but themselves. Be happy with ∅. Obey pray bend over and say *_More please!_* Tell yourself that this time THEY'LL use lubricant and protection and go a bit easier. Feel ≈ Free®‽ Have a nice daze, Con F U $ Ed eUS The Wandering WHO knows no bounds 15 min Mend ∆ © ï ‡ y coming to a location near YOU TOO Soon!

[@IsmaOnYouTube]

Great interview from Professor Roy Casagranda! 👏🏼

[@Theghua1]

Most of what the public is told is not Even Quarter of truth

[@jasonking1284]

Read up on the protocols of zion...

[@Theghua1]

@ protocols went through it in de 2000’s but never finished

[@aptorres01]

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most PROFITABLE, surly the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope." - Major General Smedley Butler War is a racket, and apparently, so is genocide.

[@kevindean1327]

Butler should be on Mnt Rushmore but he has been buried by the Illuminati/elites.

[@oliverbird6914]

Tribal wars weren't...

[@kevindean1327]

Butler ought to have his own Mnt Rushmore. Very few even know who he was.

[@aptorres01]

@kevindean1327 Not a fan of Mnt Rushmore. In fact I find it abhorrent. But I do agree that Major General Smedley Butler should be required reading along with Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins and several other books that spotlight our oligarchial government. But the goal of our educational system is not to create free thinking people it has been engineered to produce sheeple.

[@habsa8855]

Israel occupies America too

[@Jannntje]

Jew-nited States of America

[@borninvincible]

It's actually the opposite but very cleverly designed to seem so

[@habsa8855]

@ So says a Zionist Israeli who stole $20 billion of American taxes just last week.

[@aboucard93]

They openly admit to owning DC

[@TheBOOKofJOSEPH]

Muslims occupy 99.9% of the entire Middle East and turned in to shit . . . What’s your point? What can Egypt show for itself. 10s of millions of uneducated people who talk about the pharaohs, as if they had anything to do with it. Meanwhile majority of its population is illiterate uneducated, malnourished and primitive while its president is spending billions on being armed; The same could be said for ALL Arab countries. Stop blaming everyone else. AI is coming for all of us and you are talking about occupation- you are embarrassing yourself

[@RusTsea196T]

So who is the beneficiary of the Iraq war: Israel. Netanyahu is on record before Congress asking us to do it. Wouldn't the Middle East politics be much simpler if we , the US, decided an apartheid and genocidal State that has a history of luring us into catastrophic wars wasn't a good choice as an "ally"?

[@MrCph2200]

If only there was humanity left in us government- then they would listen to what you say

[@thekinghmimidou7001]

A weak Middle East greatly benefits the USA, also Israel was afraid of Iraq which is ironic cause now they have to deal with Iran wich was being contained by Iraq.also oil and selling and testing weapons.

[@alexblackhills4752]

Middle East has been in turmoil way before the USA was even created. Ever wondered how Iran and Syria become Muslim countries?

[@Energia-977]

I think Israel was helping the us to invade iraq and give the invasion more legitamacy.

[@taliiban2452]

Should of never just reinvent a state draw borders where ppl where livin' n integrating for centuries and allow anyone to be a citizen based on your beliefs

[@salimaqil3491]

Thanks for the truth

[@naayou99]

I was a none Iraqi student back in 1991 during Desert Storm in the North of Iraq, Mosel. We had to flee to Jordan. So we traveled to Baghdad then to the west, to Jordan. Every step of the way there was bombing, as Prof Casagrada was saying. BTW, Kuwait was to the south of Iraq. It was obvious Bush Sr Admin wanted Iraq infrastructure destroyed and Bush jr finished dad's job.

[@binhilabi]

So the infrastructure was destroyed of only one city or or multiple cities ?

[@ordinary7sasha]

And thus why Israel, with similar expansionist objectives, get its best friend. Free Palestine and all oppressed people!

[@OZTutoh]

Definitely, Palestinians in Kuwait celebrated the arrival of Saddam's forces so Kuwait kicked them out. It's not an Apartheid state if you don't allow them back in.

[@FaithStarCraftHD]

Everywhere the palestinians went they got kicked out. Wonder why that is.

[@halloola3636]

@@FaithStarCraftHD Like out of 109 countries?

[@FaithStarCraftHD]

@@halloola3636 look up where the PLO went and the destruction they caused each time.

[@halloola3636]

@@FaithStarCraftHD Hamas was created by Shin Bet/Israel to weaken Arafat´s PLO and to always have an excuse to kill palestinians.

[@stevanrozic4638]

Thanks Mr.Casagranda for the info.

[@AlecSchwartz-w5f]

Dr casagranda is the man

[@lalatubby4836]

wow thanks for all the info! 👍👍

[@FFeeLiT]

They stole gold too. The middle east and north africa had probably the biggest gold reserves in the world. From the time of the prophets, kings and jinns.

[@rdklkje13]

Just imagine if this was taught in US schools. How different the world might become.

[@msk806]

History is no longer primarily taught by the Victor 😂

[@carlosw1687]

Brilliant talk

[@wahabshariff9785]

Purely THE TRUTH

[@MrCph2200]

And he does not say Israel and AIPAC also pushed US to do all this?!! - even though Netanyahu was explicit in recommending the war AND suggesting the VMD claim too

[@Shaggy-839two]

He can only say so much. He tries to communicate in a simoke way so everyone can understand.

[@abumansaray7]

There are many other factors. You can't cover everything. You have American imperialism. You have the military industrial complex. You have the Project for the New American Century. And much more.

[@halloola3636]

@@abumansaray7 PNAC = 100% neocon

[@pasbert4812]

In actual fact Netanyahu in 1988 stated to US congress that he wanted US to invade Iraq as it posed a " NUCLEAR THREAT" to Israel and the region as Mossad had Intel they had and were in advanced stages of making an atom bomb . CIA advised this was impossible as they knew all too well what and whom had the ability and resources to have such technology ..... Netanyahu had to back down but was back the following year with the WMD story ,which again CIA knew not to be true but , lets go anyway , after all Netanyahu has for 30 years claimed if we take out Sadam the whole region will have positive reverberations . and.... we want to test some new weapons ourselves .. Netanyahu has lied and cheated in multiple addresses in the US congress for decades . He is a Fascist, ultra Nationalist criminal .

[@therru5943]

colonial governor does not order the empire around. he makes suggestions.

[@ahmedfaik]

Brilliant mind and human

[@robertlight5227]

In a word, ImperOILism.

[@B2svn465]

It wasn't stealing oil or slant drilling. The geology of the land makes it so that oil flows naturally downstream. Sadam had said countless times that Kuwait was part of Iraq way prior to any oil disputes. Kuwait was a trading port that was litteraly ruled by the bani khaled and prior to that exchanged hands between Iran and Arabian tribes throughout history. It was never part of Iraq in modern history unless we are talking babylonia which of in itself was split into 4 distinct regions. The US and UK promted both the Iraq Iran war and the Gulf war

[@EduardoOcampo-o1y]

Obviously, you are a man of understanding, don't you see the roots of the problem Uk,US, Israel involvement,For thousands of years this region was part of Iraq.But obviously again it seems clear that your thinking is that as to say that the land that now constitues the US didn't belong to the originals of this land. DUDE!!!! you should concentrate in the fundamentals,of the argument. Please Read Marcus Aurelious.Maybe you will get a better understanding of what is right and wrong.

[@misssoso5859]

Thank you. This argument of "Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq" was bullshit and just an excuse to take over Kuwait.

[@geraldwilliams6972]

Greed it's that simple the military industrial complex need to make money.

[@Tubulous123]

Thank you.

[@DELTASERPENT]

Good insights

[@القدسعاصمةفلسطين-ق9ط]

Palestine is an area of ​​more than 27 thousand square kilometers and is on the borders of Egypt and Jordan, which historically is part of Palestine and the people of Jordan, more than 70 percent of whom are of Palestinian origin, but Britain made them a state and brought agents to the Jordanian ruling dynasty in order to rule Jordan and protect the occupation from the Jordanian-Palestinian people Palestine Its capital, Jerusalem, is the land of the Palestinian people for tens of thousands of years. It is the cradle of Christianity and Judaism, and it is the third holiest place for us Muslims. It is a land where most of God’s prophets lived, were born, and died. It is the holy and blessed land and the land of the Palestinian and Arab people. Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived there for thousands of years as neighbors and brothers before the Zionists occupied our land. Britain brought them in the Balfour Declaration to occupy our land. Those who committed the Holocaust against the Jews were the Germans and the West, not me.Yes, my dear brothers, my beloved Palestine is the cradle of Christianity and Judaism, and it contains Al-Aqsa, the third holiest place for us Muslims in Palestine. Bethlehem, the cradle of Christ, is a blessed land, and it is the holy land, and it has been our land for tens of thousands of years, and it is the land of the Canaanite Arabs, the original Palestinian people, and they have lived in it since the Islamic conquest in the era. The Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman Arabs, Muslims, Christians and Jews are like brothers and neighbors under Palestinian rule to the owners of the land, but the Zionists came and the British occupation brought them to our land as compensation to the Jews for what they did to them Hitler. The question here is that who did the Holocaust, the Germans, why do I, the Palestinian Arab, pay the price? Why not Germany? Why do I, the Muslim, pay the price for crimes? Committed by the Germans and Nazi Europe, fascism is the root of all evil in the world. Our problem is the occupation

[@jeremyhodge6216]

Both wars were unnecessary on my opinion 🤔

[@mfromaustralia1]

Holy cow. Wow. Thank you.

[@GerritVictor-pn9yv]

Vietnam Iraq Afghanistan Who's next?

[@starsian]

World politics is a very dirty game.

[@toliverwrist6770]

And the covert intelligence game is even dirtier.

[@rocodux]

It is "U.S. war on Irak". America is NOT a country. It is a CONTINENT.

[@rolandhippe903]

Does Professor Casaganda use the same hair dresser as Boris Johnson .🤨😉

[@R1GAMBLER]

"America's" 👌😂 *...ISRAEL'S WARS.*

[@halloola3636]

One and the same ruler class.

[@hdeuo7738]

Questions are why Kuwait floods the markets with oil????

[@Lexomm1]

The Problem is, we have international law and treaties, and they are good. All we have to do, is apply the law equally on all. Period. I Guess US and UK would never get out of debt for paying reparations, their leaders never get out of prison.

[@weirdworld-l6e]

Eventually the truth is prevailed.

[@peterfreeman1585]

When the narrator reached the part about Thatcher and GHW Bush meeting, the initial exaction was a cynical "what could go wrong!!" Sure enough, Bush Snr. came out of that meeting even crazier than before.

[@davidredshaw448]

One of the good things about reading The Guardian is that you get some interesting letters from people in high places. Years ago a British defence analyst (who gave his name) recalled that he'd been in America a few days after 9/11 and had got invited to a secretive meeting with many Forbes 500 companies (many of them in the military industrial complex). They were addressed by a high ranking person in the Pentagon who told them that plans were already afoot to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in order to (particularly in the case of Iraq) leave these countries in a state of chaos and anarchy in order to secure the West's oil supply and have a forward operating military base. This duly happened. As Rumsfeld observed: "We don't do nation building." Was oil an issue with Afghanistan though? Well the West has long wanted to get at that oil in the Caspian Sea and build a pipeline going across Afghanistan and into the then rather more stable India or Pakistan, and after the Taliban kicked the Russians out (with Western money and armaments) the Texan oil company Unical quietly invited the Taliban leaders to Texas to put the proposal to them. The Taliban seemed taken by the idea (all that Western hospitality and booze) but the local feminist movement were a bit less taken with it and showed up and demonstrated. You can see this particular incident in Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11". Anyway , the whole thing went pear-shaped when Osama masterminded 9/11 at which point the Americans discovered what we could have told them a long time ago with our empire - alliances can change very quickly in this part of the world.

[@CYRUS313]

To invade IRAN but that didn't happen

[@jcolwill]

He forgot to mention it was a disaster for Washington geopolitically too because it brought a Shia government close to Iran, which was obviously gonna happen because the country was/is majority Shia 😆

[@Guapo10292]

This guy does a complete 180 of the real Scott Ritter story. Ritter very publicly resigned in 1998 because he was upset The US wasn’t doing anything about Iraq denying inspections lol

[@jmurphy6767]

You should read Ritter’s book, in which he claims the US was using UN cover to spy on Iraq, who couldn’t prove a negative. Inspections were happening. When the Iraqis couldn’t get in the clear because 1) the US didn’t want to let Saddam off the hook and 2) Saddam gained some benefit by having Iran and Saudi Arabia believe that he had WMDs.

[@Simpstewgriff]

I love dr roy check him out great lectures

[@asifhussein2166]

Thank you, HABIBI ❤

[@hankad-yv6ou]

wouldn't all the money spent to destroy be better spent on building prosperity for all?

[@maxi2406]

Only 1 country has used nuclear weapons in history, yet that same country is the standard for peace, cookies and milk.

[@kdennis9115]

I am wondering if the Saudis, the Egyptians and the rest of the Muslim world knows this.

[@abumansaray7]

You don't think some of them have a hand in it? Don't be naive.

[@kdennis9115]

@abumansaray7 are you saying that they are that dunce and blinded to the fact that they would give up their sovereignty and become subjects of the Western empire?

[@abumansaray7]

@kdennis9115 No, I'm saying geopolitics is more complex than some make it seem. Many nations have conflicting interests and their own interests to worry about. It is not black and white.

[@TeacherTom1]

@@abumansaray7 Thinking of it in terms of nations is oversimplifying it. Corporate, ideological and personal interests are the driving forces behind the actions of nations.

[@RedLights9000-f3l]

Obviously it's like saying japanese people don't know what happened to Hiroshima

[@AbdifatahIbrahim-k9i]

History repeats itself 😢

[@jeffcooper9363]

I was told by an American (originally from Jordan) that one of the reasons Sadaam invaded Kuwait was because Kuwait renegged on the protection agreement with Iraq during the Iraq/Iran War. Kuwait agreed to pay Iraq for protection from a potential Iranian invasion during the war, but never did.

[@tinkerbell1120]

"Project for the New American Century". That's your answer.

[@xmarksthespot4916]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@mohammadmatin8030]

UK, Collin Powell of the US,

[@leipersgreen6763]

BAN AIPAC

[@roybatty2030]

I understand Iraq also started selling oil in € instead of US$, which the US were very concerned about

[@briaryos1]

The € didn't exist in 1991. The Maastricht Treaty didn't take place until 1992.

[@roybatty2030]

@ correct, I was referring to the main Iraq war

[@briaryos1]

​@@roybatty2030 ah. My mistake. It's possible, but if they were, it would not have been consequential. 1.) Oil is priced in dollars, so the € would have to be converted one way or another or there would be an arbitrage problem. 2.) The Bush administration pushed the two narratives of WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda. We were WAAAAY more concerned about that. What we feared at the time was that a "smoking gun" of definitive evidence would come in the form of bomb crater in the middle of a U.S. city. "Better safe than sorry" meant we should invade Iraq *now* instead of waiting for all the facts. That was the zeitgeist in 2002-2003.

[@docvaliant721]

Israel is why.

[@R1GAMBLER]

💯 simple as.

[@OZTutoh]

1. See random unrelated Middle Eastern crisis 2. Get angry and what something to be done 3. ... 4. Blame Israel

[@TeacherTom1]

Israel is *a factor Full Spectrum Dominance.

[@zaheerhasan7070]

No mention of Gertrude Bell. Predates Sykes- Picott

[@Orgasinism]

I had no idea CENTCOM was named that because of the neocon ideology. Super interesting!!

[@quietknight8250]

9:10 "...the Iraqi people Vietnamed the United Sates and the United Sates left humiliated..." & "...it ended up being completely catastrophic for the U.S. empire..." The U.S. empire is not one thing, it is several things, and only some of those things, e.g. the military and legislature, are sensitive to humiliation. The fact that Vietnam was lost to the communists and the region did not then also 'fall' to communism proves that the stated political goal of the U.S. was either mistaken or a lie, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident proves the U.S. was, or perhaps is, not above lying. If we assume that that stated political goal was not a lie, and worth 59k lives, not to mention 3.1 million Vietnamese, then we must also assume that U.S. strategic political intelligence is incompetent. The resources available to the U.S. make it entirely able to create any structure necessary to produce highly effective intelligence, which leaves us with ‘lie’. Why would the U.S. lie about its political goals in Vietnam, or anywhere else? The military hardware, and software, industry is quite immune from the humiliation mentioned above and, far from being catastrophic, benefits equally regardless of military outcomes. In fact, it is likely that it enjoys greater benefit from defeat than victory because no military force in the world will overcome U.S. forces quickly. This benefit to the military industry is entirely public money, i.e. government money that might otherwise be spent on public benefit. A population that is denied adequate social infrastructure becomes distressed and, as long as it is also distracted, will ‘feed’ on itself rather than attack the mechanism responsible for its distress, making it easier for the governmental mechanism to maintain that distress. In the end, the very numerous and seemingly pointless wars of the U.S. amount to an ongoing war waged by the U.S. empire against its own population.

[@VioletaDelRosario-o3u]

Including Libya.

[@Dubil_7]

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi: If I fall Iran will fall if Iran falls the Middle East will fall

[@raginald7mars408]

King of the Great House and his King Dom

[@bilalhashim3840]

woah!

[@dr.radiobooks]

Five hundred years of Western hegemony has ended, while the global majority’s aspiration for a world order based on multipolarity and sovereign equality is rising. This incisive book addresses the demise of liberal hegemony, though pointing out that a multipolar Westphalian world order has not yet taken shape, leaving the world in a period of interregnum. A legal vacuum has emerged, in which the conflicting sides are competing to define the future order. NATO expansionism was an important component of liberal hegemony as it was intended to cement the collective hegemony of the West as the foundation for a liberal democratic peace. Instead, it dismantled the pan-European security architecture and set Europe on the path to war without the possibility of a course correction. Ukraine as a divided country in a divided Europe has been a crucial pawn in the great power competition between NATO and Russia for the past three decades. The war in Ukraine is a symptom of the collapsing world order. The war revealed the dysfunction of liberal hegemony in terms of both power and legitimacy, and it sparked a proxy war between the West and Russia instead of ensuring peace, the source of its legitimacy. The proxy war, unprecedented sanctions, and efforts to isolate Russia in the wider world contributed to the demise of liberal hegemony as opposed to its revival. Much of the world responded to the war by intensifying their transition to a Eurasian world order that rejects hegemony and liberal universalism. The economic architecture is being reorganised as the world diversifies away from excessive reliance on Western technologies, industries, transportation corridors, banks, payment systems, insurance systems, and currencies. Universalism based on Western values is replaced by civilisational distinctiveness, sovereign inequality is swapped with sovereign equality, socialising inferiors is replaced by negotiations, and the rules-based international order is discarded in favour of international law. A Westphalian world order is reasserting itself, although with Eurasian characteristics. The West’s defeat of Russia would restore the unipolar world order while a Russian victory would cement a multipolar one. The international system is now at its most dangerous as the prospect of compromise is absent, meaning the winner will take all. Both NATO under US direction and Russia are therefore prepared to take great risks and escalate, making nuclear wan increasingly likely.

[@jamesvoller167]

The country of my mother and my wife and the world's first civilisation destroyed by a stolen country for reasons of greed

[@EmRon1968]

There is always an explanation, it's because of Israel.

[@illuno357]

holy wow

[@Greenman432]

What is behind it? The Sykes and Picot deal is a good place to start looking.

[@OssamabinKenny]

So…we’re the bad guys here!🙀🙀🙀

[@alma7621]

I have family members faithfully served in US military and ex president. They all quit at the end. All they all said are we are just as dirty as others.

[@ClaudeGhendrih-w4o]

Not sure how much is true...however am pretty sure quite a lot of neocon ' think' tanks were indeed possessed with such fantasies.

[@ich1049]

كلام في الصميم رسالة رائعة وصلت ولكن السؤال من هو الشريف بن شريف يأخذها على محمل الجد

[@7-v4z]

Roy has the whole ball of wax....comparative reasoning

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Political interests and the war economy,

[@jmurphy6767]

I remember at the time reading news stories about the Iraqi soldiers unplugging infant incubators and letting zoo animals free and thinking this sounds like a lot of BS

[@robt8048]

They could just as easily singled out Saddam and saved 3 million innocent lives

[@Thunder777m]

Kudos for Vietnam for making the US Army defeat a symbol of an ultimate failure throughout the decades.!!

[@sbeckwit]

Please fill in the blank of why Kuwait was "stealing" Iragi oil.

[@briaryos1]

1991 - it was against U.S. strategic interests to let Saddam Hussein conquer Kuwait. Bush Sr held together a coalition that liberated the country, but left Hussein in power. 2003 - 9/11 left the U.S. paranoid about terrorism, and we let Bush Jr convince us Hussein 1.) Still had chemical weapons, and 2.) Had ties to Al Qaeda. It turned out neither was true, but we were stuck occupying Iraq.

[@markuss3735]

It would be interesting to find out how many people in the US government, going back to the 1980's at least have or had Israeli citizenship. It would also be important to publish the names of all of these people and then to make sure they are removed from their positions in the US government.

[@ctrl-shift-run8681]

The world would be completely different if the 2nd Iraq war hadn't happened. Maybe even the '08 global financial crisis would then not have happened.

[@domingodeanda6113]

Netanyahu will soon be out of business.

[@joeharris3878]

The US government was allied with Iraq in the first Persian Gulf war against Iran .

[@VMorgenthaler-yp6yz]

Don’t forget profits to be made by military contractors. What you use up has to be replaced.