How was iraq not justified in invading kuwait given the oil stealing, economic burden and debts they placed on iraqis?>but you can't invade other sovereign nations!So? The west does that all the time and they initially supported Iraq doing it anyways until Kuwait cried about it
>>17276329>So? The west does that all the timeWhile invading other sovereign nations is a problem, the real issue was this was a blatantly imperialist adventure where he was seeking to annex Kuwait. The west hasn't had any wars like that since 1945, so it was fundamentally different.
>>17276329justifications don't matter and are more of a post-hoc moralfagging venture anyway. The only thing that matters in international relations is the Melian Dialogue
>>17277100Thucydides enjoyer spotted
They were justified.
>>17276329After the fall of the Soviet Union (and the further collapse of the eastern bloc) the United States felt it had become on top of the world as the global sovereign. Something like the gulf war would become hard to justify today but at that point it was very easy and clean. Saddam was a pathetic CIA stooge anyway, this was his last ditch effort to save face from the disaster that was the Iraq-Iran war and here comes the US and NATO to fuck his plans up and sanction him to death. You can't get anymore fucked than Saddam did lul
>>17279063The shit Saddam did was fucking retarded. He had good qualities about him, especially in his anti-Israel position, but he was always a pawn and an idiot. None of his misfortunes would have happened if he didn't go to war with Iran. Saddam had the US, USSR, Yugoslavia and Arab monarchies behind him and thought he couldn't lose.Subconsciously or consciously, the US knows that its own regional and potentially global hegemony could collapse if it went to war with Iran.
