The internal political crisis in Iraq is the result of its occupation in 2003 by the United States and Great Britain. Washington is first reducing and then increasing (and vice versa) its military presence in Iraq, which is divided into three contradicting parts: Sunnis, Shi’as and Kurds. Heads of diplomatic missions are changing in Baghdad, but the essence of US diplomacy is not changing.

Main goals of US diplomacy in Iraq

The 2003 military operation ‘Iraqi Freedom’ was aimed at overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein, which had escaped from the influence of the United States, in order to establish control over the oil resources of the country and subordinate the new puppet regime to its interests.

At first, US troops stayed in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 with the mission of overthrowing the regime of S. Hussein and countering local guerrillas, but in 2014 they returned to the country again, this time with slogans of fighting international terrorism and ISIS*.

Assessing the subsequent US policy towards the partition of the Iraqi state, it should be acknowledged that Washington is actively exploiting the Kurdish issue to initiate new projects to reformat the map of the Middle East. The Anglo-Saxons (USA and Great Britain) and Israel are betting on the Barzani clan in Erbil that aims to form a new ethnic entity in oil-rich Kirkuk and Mosul. The United States supports the detonation of the separatist movement through the Kurdish issue in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.

To this end, in September 2017, the United States ensured a referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, followed by the formation of an autonomy centred in Erbil. With the beginning of the civil conflict in neighbouring Syria, Washington began to unite the political and military structures of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) through Erbil to provide........

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