Joe did not think this up. Many saw it as a possible consequence from the get go. I knew it and foolishly believed those in power had it in consideration of how many pieces the removal of Hussein put in motion. I was wrong about that last part. Or, they knew and got the outcome they wanted.
I hate to say it, but Biden was spot on. Trying to keep Iraq together as a single country after the invasion would have been like trying to keep the Austro-Hungarian Empire together as a single country after WW I.
Impossible! But of course that reality was never considered by the neocons.
This is another step in the unwinding of the Sykes-Picot treaty after WWI
The old religious and tribal divisions are re asserting them selves
We need to stay away from this