HISTORY
THE WORLD TODAY
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Question
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Russia forced them to attack their neighbor to spread communism
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The border was never secured following WWII
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There was a religious dispute over land ownership
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Iraq blamed them for a drop in oil prices
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Detailed explanation-1: -In early 1990, Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through cross-border slant drilling, although some Iraqi sources indicated that Saddam Hussein’s decision to attack Kuwait was already made a few months before the actual invasion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The attack of Iraq to Kuwait raises the oil price from $34 to about $77 per barrel. After a U.S.-led military fusion succeeded in evacuating Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces from Kuwait in early 1991, the oil price fell to approximately $37.3 per barrel [3].
Detailed explanation-3: -Iraq was particularly harsh in blaming Kuwait, arguing that Kuwait constructed military and oil facilities on Iraqi territory while Iraq was concentrating on the Iran-Iraq war. On that pretext, Iraq demanded that Kuwait write off its debt obligations.