война в Ираке
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-41095618.html
подведение итогов
Irish Examiner view: Iraq war casts long shadow over us all
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Smoke covers the presidential palace compound in Baghdad on March 21, 2003, during a massive US-led air raid on the Iraqi capital.
It seems like yesterday that the Iraq War was unleashed upon the world in what was one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in the history of the US. Yet it was 20 years ago this weekend that Operation Shock and Awe, the opening attacks against the regime of Saddam Hussein, were launched in a campaign that has changed the world, and not for the better.
.But the Irish Examiner leader writer was casting a bleak look at the looming crisis in the Middle East and, in particular, the willingness of our government to allow the military use of Shannon.
By permitting the US to use Shannon, this country is facilitating a war with Iraq, a war regarded by many as illegal and immoral” we wrote, adding that, “from the moment bombs begin to fall, the balance of international relations will suffer a major reversal from which it could take years or even decades for the world to recover.”
The hard facts have gone into history. The accumulated, long-term costs of the nine-year conflict and occupation are €3tn. More than 300,000 civilians were killed. The ‘weapons of mass destruction’ cited as the justification for invasion were never found and it is impossible to challenge the assertion that they never existed. Certainly, Hussein was a bad man, even a monster, but there are many of those in the world and toppling him left a devastated country beset by civil war and permanent emergency.
https://www.eurotopics.net/ru/298364/20-лет-войне-в-ираке-каковы-итоги-и-последствия
in italiano
https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2023/03/20/news/iraq_20_anni_senza_un_perche-12703221/