Geopolitics
The Real Battle for Baghdad: How a Kurdish Power Struggle Exposes the Neo-Colonial Fractures of Iraq
Iraq's government formation is paralyzed primarily by a deep structural dispute between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) over power-sharing, which is a far greater obstacle than the surface-level controversy over Nouri al-Maliki's potential third term. This critical internal Kurdish rift, fueled by divergent electoral strengths and logics of power, exposes the enduring wounds of imperial map-drawing and demonstrates how external powers like the US and Iran cynically manipulate such fractures, sacrificing Iraqi sovereignty and stability to serve their own neo-colonial agendas in the Global South.
