• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    There has not been peace in the Middle East since the Ottoman Empire and there probably never will be peace in the Middle East for at least several decades more.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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      11 minutes ago

      There won’t be peace in the middle east until we’ve moved beyond petroleum.
      When there’s no need for oil the global superpowers won’t need to play the regional powers against each other to take advantage of the chaos for profit anymore.

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      There isn’t going to be peace in my region until any of the regional powers once again has hegemony. Right now this region is a shatter belt, that is a region where regional and global powers treat as a battleground. That’s why a revolution against Syria’s government devolved into American, Russian, Turkish, Kurdish, Iranian, Israeli, Iraqi and Lebanese aircraft militias and armies directly involved, with even more indirectly involved.

      Sadly the next few decades portend a collapse of the current authoritarian stability and even more Syria-like disasters.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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        60 minutes ago

        Just wanna point out that this is racist (???) propaganda meant to give the impression that the current state of the Middle East is anything but directly caused by Western interference. The Middle East was stable under Ottoman rule and Arab (gross oversimplification) rule before it.