• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s an evil theocratic dictatorship, but do you know how it got that way? There was a revolution opposing a US puppet ruler. The west would like all Middle East nations to be like the Saudis: nice, stable petro states who are compliant for the most part and who cares what happens there internally. But this formula has gone wrong several times (Iran) or the west hasn’t tried as hard to achieve stability because the oil incentive isn’t there (Syria) or the borders were specifically drawn to crate instability (Iraq).

    There’s no pointing fingers at the Middle East without acknowledging the culpability of the UK, France, Russia and the USA in their horrid dysfunction. Understanding this is a rite of passage. Children point and hoot about the horrible Arabs. Adults know what’s actually up with that part of the world.

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      1 year ago

      Interesting. Did the evil west make the islamists purge their leftist allies after the shah was deposed in the glorious revolution?

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        1 year ago

        Don’t try to turn me into someone saying that everything is western corruption and nothing is the fault of the nationals themselves.

        That’s a textbook straw man. Have fun beating it up.