Next up from our series of excerpts from David T. Pyne substack: Modern Wars the U.S. Should Never Have Fought or Should Have Fought Differently U.S. Involvement in major 20th and 21st century wars resulted in millions of unnecessary deaths while creating new enemies making the U.S. much less secure
Really, I'm not sure whether any so called history of the last 70 years can be reliably discerned now. These last 6 years have got me doubting everything i thought i knew about US history.
My take on the Iraq war 2 was it was a Hail Mary pass to clean up the mess of the Middle East. The no fly zone was going on for years, Saddam was ready to go back into the chemical / nuke business once the sanctions ended.
I had hopes of a positive outcome, but what a catastrophe the occupation of Iraq / Rebuilding was. It became a huge grift operation. And Syria has become a charnel house. And Iran no longer has Iraq counter balancing it.
Iraq War 1 had a huge coalition. My guess was a lot of the war fever was fueled by Saudi / Gulf propaganda. And the hubris of the us being the sole remaining super power. And the Bush / Saudi family relationship. Saudis were scared by the Kuwaiti invasion by Iraq.
Really, I'm not sure whether any so called history of the last 70 years can be reliably discerned now. These last 6 years have got me doubting everything i thought i knew about US history.
My take on the Iraq war 2 was it was a Hail Mary pass to clean up the mess of the Middle East. The no fly zone was going on for years, Saddam was ready to go back into the chemical / nuke business once the sanctions ended.
I had hopes of a positive outcome, but what a catastrophe the occupation of Iraq / Rebuilding was. It became a huge grift operation. And Syria has become a charnel house. And Iran no longer has Iraq counter balancing it.
Iraq War 1 had a huge coalition. My guess was a lot of the war fever was fueled by Saudi / Gulf propaganda. And the hubris of the us being the sole remaining super power. And the Bush / Saudi family relationship. Saudis were scared by the Kuwaiti invasion by Iraq.
Mark, this reminds me of a very timely post you had a few days ago:
https://www.rt.com/russia/553674-lavrov-military-operation-us-dominance/
Thanks for, as usual, being so on top of things.
Good write-up at CTH:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/10/biden-schedules-meeting-with-india-prime-minister-to-discuss-russian-trade-and-sanction-compliance/