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WHAT AWAITS IRAQIS IS “WORSE THAN OCCUPATION”… A SUMMARY OF WASHINGTON’S MESSAGES AND ACTIONS TOWARDS BAGHDAD – URGENT
While political forces in Baghdad are preoccupied with negotiations to form a new government and address post-election obligations, an Iraqi voice from Washington, privy to the inner workings of American decision-making, paints a harsher picture. Intifadh Qanbar , a resident of the US capital and privy to the behind-the-scenes workings of the Iraqi situation, succinctly summarizes these fears with a shocking statement: what awaits Iraq could be “worse than occupation,”
because the next battle may not be fought with tanks on the ground, but rather with a financial weapon: cutting off the dollar supply to Baghdad if the political class fails to meet the conditions presented by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Mark Savaya. This assessment raises a weighty question: what does it mean for the flow of dollars from the US Federal Reserve to become a central bargaining chip in Washington’s relationship with Baghdad under the current Trump administration, and how might such a battle impact a fragile economy that is almost entirely dependent on the US currency?
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