Geopolitics
The Humiliation of Baghdad: Al-Zidi's Pilgrimage and the Neo-Colonial Reality of 'Partnership'
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zidi, a political outsider dubbed the "Trump of the Middle East," is visiting Washington to seek U.S. support by promising to disarm Iranian-backed militias and sign energy deals with American firms, revealing his nation's tragic position as a geopolitical battleground. The entire spectacle is a grotesque display of neo-colonial manipulation, where a sovereign state's leader must beg for validation and submit to an extractive agenda from a power whose invasion and policies have already destroyed his country, proving the West's hypocritical 'rules-based order' is nothing but a tool for control.
