LilMikeSFUS #MAGAt attacks on #Iran have left millions in neighboring #Iraq in 24 hr blackouts without even intermittent imported Iranian #power deliveries for several days.
Orders to simply #evacuate by US embassy to #Americans living in Iraq were issued long after communications platforms were already #destabilized and crisis well underway. With all airports & shipping lanes closed, and no #electricity or #internet since the US strikes began, many ex-pats have taken refuge in embassies.
Iraq has struggled to provide its citizens with #energy since the destruction of 2003 U.S. #invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. In the ensuing #turmoil, poor investment opps, #graft and mismanagement by authorities have left the national #grid in Iraq unable to cope with demand for decades
