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...The largest transfer that was repaid followed the Gulf war, where Iraq made some $52.4bn in war reparations that were paid off only in 2022....
...Some critics of the proposed transfer use a mistaken analogy to reparations after the first world war. But Weimar Germany was a fragile democracy that had accepted defeat and a peace treaty....
...“The reason is that Iraqis are still suffering the consequences and there has been no accountability, no attempt at reparations.”...
...There is never a guarantee of success with reconstruction programmes, as evidenced by Afghanistan and Iraq....
...There was more success in the case of Iraq, where the country’s government has paid $52bn to victims of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait....
...Conscious of how distant any notion of war reparations seems, the EU and the US have looked at ways of seizing Russian assets to help pay for the effort....
...These, in turn, charged high reparation payments to Germany. Not directly related to the world today, but a useful reference highlighting the problem....
...But the idea that China should pay reparations for the resulting economic losses is, he says, ridiculous, and he calls Donald Trump’s decision to suspend WHO funding a “crime against humanity”....
...The Pax Americana was lost to the flames of Afghanistan and Iraq, to the economic weaknesses exposed by the global financial crisis, and to the unprecedented speed of China’s rise....
...Maybe wealthy nations should pay climate reparations to developing countries as she suggests, as well as granting them exclusive rights to all future permitted growth....
...It is another to push candidates into supporting slavery reparations and other suicidal positions....
...Eventually France got Syria, and Britain an Iraq concocted out of hostile ethnic groups, even though this contradicted Wilson’s principle of “self-determination”....
...He has done business with some of the least savoury regimes in the world, from Castro’s Cuba to Saddam’s Iraq, via Africa, the Balkans and Central Asia....
...But Saudi investment into the US remains troublesome because of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which Riyadh fears could be exploited to pursue financial reparations against the kingdom for...
...The government has also agreed a deferment of this year’s war reparations payment to Kuwait — Baghdad is paying the Gulf state $4.6bn for its 1990 invasion and occupation....
...The doctrine has been stretched and twisted to justify interventions in Iraq and Libya....
...Unfortunately, it appears there can be no mention of any US reparations to Iraq....
...I’d vote for any party that promised, in this centenary year, to pull it down as an act of reparation to the slain....
...By siding with anti-government rebels in Syria, he further strained relations with that country, Iran, and Iraq....
...How much money was going back to Iraq, and how much was being paid out on war reparations, for example, so Kuwait....
...In exchange for Kuwait dropping a claim for $1.2bn, Iraq agreed to pay $300m in reparations and another $200m to set up a joint airline operated by both countries, according to the Iraq government....
...Money is flowing in from oil exports that topped $6.5bn in the month of February alone – but is also pouring out to satisfy $17bn in reparations still owed to Kuwait for the invasion, as well as to pay other...
...Iraq still has to pay just less than half of the $39bn it owes Kuwait in reparations over the invasion, while tensions remain about border demarcation and a giant port Kuwait is building just across the...
...While many Kuwaitis still feel anger over the Iraqi occupation – for which Baghdad is still paying almost $40bn of reparations – there is also a pragmatic strand of thought that recognises the cost of following...
...Saddam Hussein bequeathed unpayable debts to Iraq....
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