Applies to Lemmy too.
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I agree with you, but to be fair Iraq as a concept is really old, so it's not like demarcating the area we call Iraq as one administrative unit is a new idea. BTW the Iraqi state is only as functional as it is because opposition to it coalesced around ISIS and politically and military burned out/was crushed, allowing it to maintain a measure of monopoly on violence. It's still very dysfunctional in a day to day level, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Iraq.
That too, but also intentional and unintentional Western sabotage of these nation-building projects to make the results more pliable to Western interests results in shitshows like the US-backed Afghan government that folded within months of US withdrawal. It's not like the US couldn't undertake a successful nation-building project if it really wanted to; it just doesn't.