Two decades after the US invasion, veterans and Iraqis look back on a war launched over weapons of mass destruction that were never found. Iraqi soldier "Faris," who withholds his real name for fear of militias, describes weeping as he watched US troops storm Baghdad's presidential palace in March 2003. American combat medic Amber Asbury, stationed in Baghdad from 2005 to 2006, recalls initial Iraqi optimism about Saddam Hussein's fall curdling as occupation dragged on without a plan. Sniper Garett L. Reppenhagen, who served in 2004 and 2005, speaks about the enemy fighters and civilians he killed, and the PTSD he still carries. The film connects the invasion's aftermath, the destabilized region, the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, and the absence of accountability for those who started the war, to today's fractured global response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where much of the global South abstained from condemning Moscow. Interviews with soldiers on both sides and a British MP frame the argument that Iraq's legacy still shapes how the world judges wars of aggression.