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Why did US and coalition troops try to stop Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait?
The United Nations would fail without Kuwait’s support.
The world depended on Kuwait for oil.
Stopping Iraq would remove Hussein from power.
Stopping Iraq would ensure peace in the Middle East.

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The world depended on Kuwait for oil.

Iraq’s invasion threatened global oil supplies and regional stability, so the U.S. led a UN-backed coalition to expel Iraqi forces and protect the flow of Middle Eastern oil (and to uphold international law)—not to remove Saddam Hussein from power.