I think because he wants to created a great nation of great benefits
America and the Soviet Union didn't trust each other and so stockpiled massive nuclear weapons
The event which started the Gulf War in 1991 was a) the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. There were the largest amount of coalition forces during this war since World War II, with most of them being from the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Egypt fighting for Iraq to immediately stop it's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
Sorry the answer took so long -laughs- but it only created a social hierarchy that stood for decades.