sorry for miswriting the year of Iraque's invasion Kuweit, (not 1993,but 1990)
1990 was the year before collapse of USSR with state red flag.
The strongest reaction of our journalists was caused by the combination of 2-
3 days long crash of modern European Al-Kuweit city (no water, no
electricity, crashed and robbed shops, mountains of rubbish, hunger, terror,
violence on streets) with red flags on Iraque tanks, it's just a detail,
no sympathy to modern really strong and sometimes cruel core control of
resource territories (agree with R.Moore and Gunder Frank),
but much less sympathy to such red "independance" of this control
regards, Nikolai