Up through the 1990s Gulf War, when you said "Iraq’s second city" it meant Basra, but now it’s "Mosul."
Up through the 1990s Gulf War, when you said “Iraq’s second-largest city” it meant Basra, but now it’s “Mosul.” Regarding Basra, there were even stories that nuclear weapons had been used during the Gulf War, and there were also stories that the Self-Defense Forces entered Basra and operated jointly with the British military, and some of you will remember that the issue of the SDF’s Iraq Daily Reports (the Basra Diary) was taken up in the Diet for a time. When the author worked at a security company, I once caught sight of a former Ground SDF facilities unit (what other countries would call engineers) member who had participated in the Iraq deployment, but it was hard to ask, so I didn’t try to ask anything from my side. Or, the capital of Ukraine “Kyiv” has also wobbled between “Kiev.” It doesn’t seem to be just a matter of spelling variation or change. According to NHK and the like, they stopped using the Russian-derived Kryev and changed it to Kyiv, but many people remember that up to World War II it was the Latin-derived Kryew, and after that it became the Russian-derived Krev.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.