Causes And Consequences Of The Raq Invasion Of Kuwait

raq invasion of Kuwait took place at 2nd of August 1990 . It was issue that the Arab countries and the west had different actions toward it , and that had a great political, martial, and environmental effects on them. The Iraq invasion toward Kuwait was initiated by repeated threats and claims from Saddam Hussein the Iraqi president towards Kuwait , that their ruler was sheikh Jaber Al - Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-subah during the invasion ,is a part of Iraq and he will take over this part someday , although of these previous claims no one believed that Iraq would invade Kuwait as a neighbor country that share with Iraq its culture , traditions and Arabic language and the two countries were members in the GCC -Gulf cooperation Council - that's …show more content…
In addition, this decision aimed to put an end to the Iraqi president's -Saddam Hussein - claims and goals to invade Kuwait. In order to understand what are the reasons and effects of the Iraqi invasion ? we must know about the previous history between the two countries and the political , economic , and social relations between the two countries throughout history and the treaties between them and to understand the consequences of this invasion on the east and the west including Kuwait and Iraq . Focusing on the most significant result of this invasion that is the gulf war 2 between Iraq and the coalition of countries led by …show more content…
Although Iraq had a strong military, it was financially destroyed. Sadam Hussein accused Kuwait and united emirates that they decided to destroy Iraq financially by increasing their oil production which led to a decrease in the oil coast this affect Iraq’s economic negatively, this financial problems led to the tension in the Iraqi – Kuwait relation .
The political reasons:
This reasons was due to the dictatorial regime in Iraq as the president SadamHussine was the only one who could rule the country, and internationally Iraq was consider as a huge martial force, and this is apparent from the letters between Sadam Hussein and George bush (the American president in that time) during 1990
Sadam Hussein was thinking that united state will not intervenes in Kuwait while the invasion as he consider that USA was concentrating on the world circumstanses“ the democratic revolution in the eastern Europe and the collapse of the soviet union” , this made Sadam Hussein to invade Kuwait.In addtion to that, he want to take over kuwait and join it with iraq as he want to make an iraq