[Stateside Twins' Eyeshot] Where comes the winner

1991 - A US-led international force attacks Iraq for its refusal to withdraw from Kuwait. Mikhail Gorbachev gives up the presidency of the USSR, while Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian Republic. Clarence Thomas replaces Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court,while leaders of Russia,Ukraine,and Belarus establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.

UN coalition-building efforts were so successful that by the time the fighting (Operation Desert Storm) began on 16 January 1991, twelve countries had sent naval forces, joining the regional states of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states, as well as the huge array of the U.S.