How did the United States involvement in the Middle East change after the fall of the Soviet Union?
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How did the United States involvement in the Middle East change after the fall of the Soviet Union?
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Even as the Cold War was still in the process of wrapping up, a US led coalition liberated the tiny oil-rich country of Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Prior to 1991, events
in the Middle East such as the Six Days War between Israel and its Arab neighbors (Jordan, Syria, and Egypt) were heavily tied into the Cold War. Often, the US would support
one side while the Soviets would support another. Additionally, in Egypt, the Egyptian government benefited from Cold War tensions as the US and the Soviet Union competed
with each other for influence in Egypt in response to building the Aswan dam.
The question then becomes, what has changed? How did the United States involvement in the Middle East change after the fall of the Soviet Union?
