Timeline for How strong was the Western pacifist campaign to not liberate Kuwait by force?
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| Mar 15, 2023 at 14:29 | comment | added | Stuart F | "liberate" or transfer from Iraqi dictatorship to Kuwaiti dictatorship? | |
| Mar 7, 2023 at 22:17 | history | edited | ohwilleke♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 7, 2023 at 15:07 | answer | added | origimbo | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 7, 2023 at 4:12 | answer | added | ohwilleke♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 6, 2023 at 20:44 | comment | added | ccprog | All I can give you is a personal recollection: At the time, I was living in Darmstadt, a German university town (with a large US garrison). Demonstrations were average compared to other issues, and outside of the university crowd support was limited. One of the nicer things I remember was sharing some beer at a picket fire with some US soldiers who were worried about being sent to the action. | |
| Mar 6, 2023 at 18:15 | comment | added | Italian Philosophers 4 Monica | A significant pacifist actor in France was, of all people, its Defense Minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement. But I wouldn't say his was a very widely shared opinion either. You have to remember the stakes (Western access to oil, OMG!), Saddam's nastiness having been resurrected for the occasion (after years of promoting him as the best hope vs Iran) and the fact that Saudi Arabian fields were initially at risk as well, which would have given Saddam massive leverage over world oil markets. | |
| Mar 6, 2023 at 18:06 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | @origimbo: as useful as that needs to be to answer this Q, e.g. if you're thinking about the US, whether there were significant factions in either/both parties. A quick look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… suggests the vote was surprising narrow in the Senate, although I don't know if pacifism had anything to do with that. | |
| Mar 6, 2023 at 17:32 | comment | added | origimbo | How widely or narrowly are you defining "party" in this case? Groups of people certainly opposed military action, and some of these people will have stood for elections, sometimes under the name collective name. | |
| Mar 6, 2023 at 13:20 | history | edited | got trolled too much this week | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 6, 2023 at 12:39 | history | asked | got trolled too much this week | CC BY-SA 4.0 |