Standard Oil was horizontal slant drilling into Iraq sweet crude and that is why Iraq was in there in Kuwait , to turn off the theft
The "news" told us Sadaam was an evil dictator trying to expand his empire, and that his troops were throwing babies out the window of the hospital
a short study of the pre-googled up revised history of the Ukraine conflict reveals that the EU was getting gas through a Ukraine pipeline and Ukraine was stealing gas, Russia tried to collect and sued and got awarded only a portion of $ owed (30B) but never got paid Ukraine said "good luck collecting".
But useful idiots just buy into the "news" narrative and rush off to war for the theiving politicians like Biden Or Bush, so bringing up the facts is a waste of time because the MSM owns the narrative and people believe what they want in spite of facts and its "my country right or wrong" anyway .
but have at it , gotta go kill those evil Ruskies trying to "take over the world" by trying to collect whats owed to them, ( the nerve of those guys )
Iraq had some very legitimate claims against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. That didn’t justify invasion.
Iraq wanted to make Kuwait it’s province.
Do you think that Kuwait was an “Iraqi asset”?
In arbitration Gazprom could not and did not provide proof for this alleged theft.
You don’t invade a country and kill people to collect on debts - at least not since 1945