Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakahe te Soviet Union ki a Saddam Hussein i te 2 o Akuhata 1990
te nohoanga o Kuwait, me te tautoko i tētahi whakataunga o te United Nations e whakaae ana ki te whakamahi i te kaha hōia, mēnā e tika ana, ki te whakatinana i tētahi rāhuitanga patu ki Iraq. Engari ko te tautoko hōia a te Soviet Union ki a Hussein i kaha te whakahe mai i te United States me etahi atu whenua o te Hauauru. I Washington, DC, nga tohunga kaupapa here a iwi ke o Heritage Foundation a Jay P. Kosminsky me Michael Johns i tuhi i te 30 o Akuhata 1990 e kii ana, "I te wa e whakahe ana i te whakaekenga o Iraq, kei te awhina tonu a Gorbachev ki a Saddam i te taha hoia. E ai ki te whakaaetanga a Moscow ake, i te huihuinga korero a te 22 o Akuhata me te Koronela o te Ope Whero a Valentin Ogurtsov, 193 nga kaitohutohu hoia a Soviet kei te whakangungu tonu me te awhina i nga ope taua o Iraq kotahi miriona. I te taha tūmataiti, e kii ana ngā pūtake o te Pentagon kei waenganui i te 3,000 me te 4,000 ngā kaitohutohu hōia Soviet i Iraq".