RE: Why I'm here: a Muslim. My Philosophy in life. What is yours;Muslim?
May 8, 2018 at 9:27 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2018 at 9:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 8, 2018 at 2:38 am)Mathilda Wrote:(May 7, 2018 at 6:04 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I might have an easier time believing you if you didn't spend half your time blaming the West for the problems in the Middle East.
To be fair though, the west does need to take a fair share of the blame. It will stop meddling once the oil runs out. At least Britain and America. I don't know if Europe meddles.
Probably not. We have allies and interests in the region beyond oil. We only import a quarter of it, and of that quarter 40% is from canada, 21% is from central and south america, and 11% is from saudi arabia. The rest is a grab bag of suppliers. We get about as much from africa nowadays as the middle east.
This last round of conflicts had jack shit to do with oil. Though the war for oil narrative was just as a good a cover as anything else. It;s even got our resident ayatollah convinced, lol.
@Atlass.
-It;s islam. In any case "The West" didn;t defeat the ottomans. Russia did, lol. The ottomans pulled a pearl harbor on them in 1914...and they responded by annihilating the ottoman empire. They were already in a heap of trouble, with continous internal rebellions for the decades preceeding the war. Ultimately, the caliphate crumbled because "The West" refused to protect it in turkeys war of independence that would roll off the back of ww1 and continue until 1924.
It;s almost like you don;t have to invade the caliphate to get them to shoot at each other and other people, or something.
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