Pompeo makes unannounced visit to Baghdad amid rising tensions with Iran

Washington Post ^ | May 7, 2019 | Carol Morello

[NorseViking]

“” “” It’s not clear how Iraq is impoverished. When the US invaded in 2003, Iraq’s GDP per capita was $609. It’s now around $5000. Besides, it’s not as if Russia took a look at the effects on Ukraine’s economy before it decided to invade Ukraine and annex the Crimea.
Besides, it’s not as if Russia took a look at the effects on Ukraine’s economy before it decided to invade Ukraine and annex the Crimea.”” “”

Don’t be intellectually dishonest. Iraq’s GDP per capita was about half of that of US in 1990. That’s about $10k in 1990 dollars. In 2003 it was a Third World country and still is today.

I have no idea how Ukraine is connected to it. The ‘war’ which is mostly a fiction of the Ukrainian government propaganda didn’t have as much an effect on their economy as uncontrolled theft of public funds by the very same government. Self-imposed embargoes against the country which was their most important market didn’t help either. Crimea voted to get out of this mess. It would vote again if needed.

“” “” Millions of people have not been killed in Iraq. The total body count there is less than 300K. That’s less than 1%
of Iraq’s population of 38m.”” “”

That’s direct casualties. Many more died or had their lives shortened due to a collapse of basic public services related to the shrinking economy.
Once again you are still ignoring the surge of Islamic terrorism as a result. It killed many more people including Americans.

“” “” You’re confusing two different things. The use of a given currency by producers for cost reasons worldwide has nothing to do with the control of resources by a single entity. “” “”

Has anyone disputed it here?

“” “” But it makes a difference if the number of independent producers goes down, especially when 5% (Saddam’s Iraq) of the market becomes 33% (Iraq with all of the Arabian peninsula under Saddam) of the market. It won’t destroy the US economy, but it will cost us hundreds of billions of dollars per year, dwarfing the cost of removing and killing him.”” “”

That’s clearly hypothetical and doesn’t worth killing for. In previous posts you wrote about Microsoft holding more than 33% of operating system market. Does it mean Bill Gates deserve getting killed for it? I don’t think so.
The easier explanation here is the corruption of Bush family and their ties to Saudi royals. It is that simple. The oil price issues and the rest are hypothetical or speaking clearly an intellectual pornography.