• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    6 days 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.

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      6 days 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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          4 days ago

          Do you really think that if Israel did not exist that there’d be peace there?

          I am 1000% confident that there would not be gencoide there if not for zionists. And theres plenty of proof of peace there in the past.

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        5 days ago

        People have been saying “As long as no [disliked social group] exists in the Middle East, there will be no peace” for the entirety of history.

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          4 days ago

          Interesting theory. Tell us more about your obviously clear understanding of the 800 years of the jews living peacefully in that region during the ottoman empire.

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      6 days ago

      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.