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For starters, Qaddafi managed to unify a country that, since the Greek
invasion
in the seventh century BC, had been divided between a coastal strip linked to the larger Mediterranean basin and an isolated hinterland that even Benito Mussolini’s brutal regime could not secure.
Moreover, most analysts agree that at least part of the rationale behind Russia’s
invasion
of Georgia, reigniting fears of a new Cold War, was its confidence that, with America’s armed forces pre-occupied with two failing wars (and badly depleted because of a policy of not replacing military resources as fast as they are used up), there was little America could do in response.
Popular opposition to the Iraq war made it impossible for Mexico and Chile to give into American pressure at the United Nations to endorse the invasion; the citizens of these countries were proven right.
A survey three years ago suggested that 80% of Taiwan’s 25 million people would support a formal declaration of independence, provided that it did not prompt a Chinese
invasion.
Ukrainians note that Russia justified its
invasion
of Georgia, as the Nazis justified their dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, as being necessary to “protect” a minority to whom they had just given citizenship.
So the Red Army invaded Hungary – on a scale larger than the Allies’ D-Day
invasion
of Europe in 1944.
Russia, the great power of Kazakhstan’s neighborhood, has unsettled the region with its
invasion
of Ukraine, in which it illegally annexed Crimea and started a war in the eastern Donbas region.
In 1987, however, when Turkey applied for full membership of the European Community, the Commission gave it the thumbs down: Turkey was too poor and too populous (before the unification of Germany, it was bigger than any member state); its human rights record was unacceptable; and it was disqualified by its
invasion
of northern Cyprus in 1974.
Bandar provided key insights and advice as President George W. Bush planned the 2003 Iraq
invasion.
Soon enough, however, the US overextended itself by plunging into geopolitical misadventures like the
invasion
of Iraq.
As Chief of the Army Staff, Musharraf directed the disastrous Kargil
invasion
of 1999, when Pakistan sent its soldiers surreptitiously across the cease-fire lines to capture strategically vital heights overlooking a key Indian road.
Because the
invasion
was manifestly illegal and provocative, Pakistan denied that official soldiers were involved, with the result that when they were repulsed, at great cost to both sides, Musharraf refused to accept his own soldiers’ bodies.
To the Sunni minority, pushed from power by the American
invasion
and giving vent to their frustration with daily attacks on the Shi’a population and their holy sites, Saddam will remain a hero for a long time to come.
The Munich Agreement gave this region, referred to by the Nazis as the Sudetenland, to Germany, leaving Czechoslovakia without defensible borders and paving the way for the Nazi
invasion
and partition of the country the following March.
In other words, North Korea does not want only to defend itself; it wants to set the stage for an
invasion
of its own.
That is the case with the Vietnam War and, more recently, the
invasion
of Iraq on the fallacious grounds that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The war in Algeria was, for de Gaulle, but another symptom of a dysfunctional state, an analysis that went back to his own experiences in 1940, when the French government proved unable to resist
invasion
by Hitler’s Germany.
In 2007, Uganda supported the disastrous US-backed Ethiopian
invasion
of Somalia, which nearly flattened the capital Mogadishu, causing more than half of the city’s population to flee.
In 2004, speaking to Russian veterans about the Afghan invasion, Putin explained that there were legitimate geopolitical reasons to protect the Soviet Central Asian border, just as in March he cited security concerns to justify his Ukrainian land grab.
By visiting Poland before Germany, Trump may be trying to create a split within the EU, similar to when newly admitted member states drew criticism from “Old Europe” for supporting the US
invasion
of Iraq in 2003.
ISIS began as an affiliate of Al Qaeda, following America’s
invasion
of Iraq.
Antoon opposed both Saddam Hussein’s brutal dictatorship and the 2003 US-led invasion, which plunged the country into chaos, inflamed ethnic tensions, and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
The
invasion
of Iraq was an act of aggression against a country that was not attacking or threatening to attack another country.
Blair justified the
invasion
as necessary to stop Saddam’s crimes against humanity.
Russia’s
invasion
and annexation of Crimea has triggered unintended tectonic shifts in international politics.
After the Soviet
invasion
of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Russian poet Alexander Galich wrote: “Compatriots, our homeland is in danger!
Havel was blacklisted and openly persecuted after the Soviet-led
invasion
of Czechoslovakia in August of that year, but he continued to write anti-totalitarian plays.
When, as president, he supported the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 or the coming
invasion
of Iraq in 2003, he did not talk about geo-political or strategic objectives but about the need to stop human-rights abuses by brutal dictators.
Syria and its regional allies are determined to protect a new regional balance of power that shifted in their favor following the US-led
invasion
of Iraq.
Iran also occupies three Emirati islands in the Gulf (a policy that it refuses to discuss) and has in effect launched an
invasion
of Syria.
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