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        Also entirely unsurprising since Kuwait isn’t even a real country. It’s a British protectorate ripped out of Iraq for the purpose of controlling regional oil and passed on to the Americans when they replaced the British.

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          I never knew that. Is there a movement of become a part of Iraq again, or there is no significant support behind that idea?

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            Probably not and there won’t be until the American presence in the region which props up the despotic Gulf monarchies disappears.