Subj : All politics aside...
To   : Blue White
From : Brian Murrey
Date : Fri Feb 25 2022 16:41:15

//Hello Blue,//

on *25.02.22* at *19:53:34* You wrote in area *FSX_GEN*
to *Nuke* about *"Re: All politics aside..."*.

 -=>> Nuke wrote to Joacim Melin <=-

 Nu>> It is all so depressing... we are witnessing an event that hasn't
 Nu>> happened in a generation. It's just unbelievable.

 BW> Maybe more than one.  I am in my early 50's.  My mother was born after
 BW> WWII
 BW> was over.  Some members of her generation were born after Korea, too.

Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990.  Iraq had borrowed 14 Billion from Kuwait to finance their war against Iran, and coule not pay it back. Kuwait refused to reduce oil production, and Iraq saw that as an intentional move to drive the price of oil down and to keep Iraq on the hook.  The invasion of Kuwait was met with international condemnation and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the UN Security Council (sound familiar???) UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and US president George H. W. Bush deployed forces into Saudi Arabia, and urged other countries to send their own forces to the scene. An array of nations joined the coalition, forming the largest military alliance since World War II. Most of the coalition's military forces were from the US, with Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Egypt as leading contributors, in that order. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia paid around US$32 billion of the US$60 billion cost.

This did happen in our generations. 

Regards,
Brian Murrey
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