Mosul in the conflict between Baghdad and Erbil

Abstract

Speaking about the causes and consequences of the Mosul crisis, it is very difficult to refrain from drawing an analogy with oncological pathology. Perhaps this comparison is not entirely correct, but, nevertheless, there are certain grounds for it. The great intra-Iraqi conflict, embracing almost the entire Iraqi society, to the maximum extent likened to the process of the defeat of the human body with a cancer, passing into the final stage. Like metastases that destroy the body, local hotbeds of tension and conflicts with the use of force arise and spread throughout the country with incredible speed. At the same time, the process of disintegration is intensified and accelerated by many internal and external destabilizing factors that the parties to the conflicts do not try to overcome, acting primarily in the interests of their state, but try, first of all, to