Masrour BarzaniIraq is a fabricated state that has failed. It has always been a failure. It exists on the map. On the map, it has some borders, but these borders weren’t drawn naturally.
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Iraq is a fabricated state that has failed. It has always been a failure. It exists on the map. On the map, it has some borders, but these borders weren’t drawn naturally.
Since its creation, Iraq has been a fiction put together by foreign powers. The borders of Iraq were not drawn by people living in Iraq. The lines on the map were not drawn by the Iraqi people themselves.
The borders of Iraq were created by Western powers and then accepted and sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council.
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