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The Bombed Barracks: How Imperialist Intervention Manufactured Iraq's Sovereign Trap

US and Saudi airstrikes targeted sites in Iraq described as official security headquarters, killing members of the state-affiliated Popular Mobilization Forces and exposing the dangerous ambiguity of a security system where militias are embedded within the state yet act independently. This tragic episode is a direct consequence of imperialist interventions that have fractured sovereign nations, leaving them trapped in perpetual conflict to serve Western and regional power games, while the people of the global south pay the ultimate price.