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The not-so-winding road from Iraq to Ukraine
The invasion of Iraq 20 years ago casts a long shadow over today’s neocon attempts to stir up World War III, write MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
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MARCH 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the US and British invasion of Iraq.
This seminal event in the short history of the 21st century not only continues to plague Iraqi society to this day, but it also looms large over the current crisis in Ukraine, making it impossible for most of the global South to see the war in Ukraine through the same prism as US and Western politicians.
While the US was able to strong-arm 49 countries, including many in the global South, to join its “coalition of the willing” to support invading the sovereign nation of Iraq, only Britain, Australia, Denmark and Poland actually contributed troops to the invasion force, and the past 20 years of disastrous interventions have taught many nations not to hitch their wagons to the faltering US empire.
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