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Post-Colonal RegimesSaddam Hussein had a long standing political-military relationship with the Soviet Union. Traditionally in the Middle East, if post-colonial regimes could not get what they needed from the United States, they turned toward Moscow or perhaps Beijing. Photo: 2014 Fighters from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) hold their weapons as they stand on confiscated cigarettes before setting them on fire in the city of Raqqa. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mosul-seized-by-jihadists-isis-who-are-islamic-state-iraq-levant-worlds-richest-terror-group-1452275For More on Anti-Colonial WaveCold War DynamicThe Cold War dynamic went something like this. The United States and NATO constituted the West. The Soviet Union, sometimes vilified with terms like the Evil Empire and cold warriors, was the adversary in the Cold War system of alignment. Political blackmail was the game. “If you give us what we want we will be on your side, if you don’t we will go…
