Eli5: how did America actually destabilize the Middle East in the Iraq war? What was done specifically that caused all of the chaos in the countries we were involved in?

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Eli5: how did America actually destabilize the Middle East in the Iraq war? What was done specifically that caused all of the chaos in the countries we were involved in?

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Basically after the invasion the US propped up a government that cut out a large percentage of the previous workforce. I believe it was basically everyone who was middle management and up. Thereby creating a large group of resentful influential locals who now had no role to fill and a replacement group that was not qualified to run the country’s infrastructure.