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I was wondering about a different war in the middle east sometime in the 1990's. I had an Idea of instead of Invading Kuwait, Saddam invaded Syria. They did have some close relations, but I don't think war would be impossible between them. This kind of war might be popular with the Iraqi people, considering the culturals ties between them. As long as Saddam had called this a war of Unifications between the two of them, this might have been possible.
How would this kind of war effect the rest of the world? Kuwait was one of the U.S. oil buddies in the middle east, Syria not so much. So would this conflict prompt the U.S. to take action? I had thought that there might be a Russian intervention. This Russian proposed action would not be extremely popular with the U.S., France, or UK. So it would not pass the security council. This may possibly lead to a war between the Russian Federation, and Iraq. This would definitely effect our world today.

How probable is this scenario?
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