The current problems in the middle east are mainly due to western powers. Whether that is the British or French drawing random lines on a map over 100 years or america destabilising resource rich countries.
Things that make it look like the US is the bad guy once again:
the US and Israel funded Hamas to take power away from the more secular left PLO (not the first time funding religious extremists)
the US tried to stage a coup after Hamas took won an election
Gaza has oil and gas deposits that Israel is selling contracts for
Israel has released plans to build a bigger competitor to the Suez canal that would benefit the US as they would profit from international trade and not Egypt who isn’t aligned with US interests (read Muslim country)
going through Gaza would make this proposed canal straighter therefore cheaper to build and faster to navigate
US arms companies benefit anytime a country is buying stockpiled armaments
Unironically we wouldn’t be in this situation if the US and israel weren’t dicks about everything.
spiderplant@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Swap excess money for excess natural resources and you’ve got the US
YeetPics@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Wow you’ve solved the whole issue we’re discussing.
/s
spiderplant@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The current problems in the middle east are mainly due to western powers. Whether that is the British or French drawing random lines on a map over 100 years or america destabilising resource rich countries.
Things that make it look like the US is the bad guy once again:
Unironically we wouldn’t be in this situation if the US and israel weren’t dicks about everything.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
That’s the idea, yeah.
Can you say “The European Protectorate?”
spiderplant@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Neo-colonialists the lot of them sadly