Death to America

  • Sagifurius@lemm.ee
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    TIL people can’t conceive of the idea all these Arabian countries have had 80 years to merge, if they desired.

    • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It’s not as though the most powerful empire ever to exist (amerikkka) was actively destroying any movement that arose to accomplish this during the period you’ve mentioned. The CIA for instance openly admits to having coup’d Mossadegh (democratically elected by lib standards) after he dared to attempt to nationalize Iran’s oil. There are many other examples of the USA meddling in the region, for example the Iraq War which slaughtered a million people and which Biden voted for.

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        nerd You’re 100% correct about what Amerikkka was doing with the CIA but Mossadegh is not the best specific example since that’s Iran, and Iran is not an Arab country. it is Muslim, but not Arab. They don’t speak Arabic, but Farsi. Iran is not considered part of the “Arab world” but it is considered part of the Middle East. These are often confused.

        Arab World (does not Include Iran)

        Middle East (does include Iran)

        Iran

        Usually when people want to refer to the Arab World + Iran they say “MENA region” (Middle East North Africa)

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            pretty much considered both South Asian and Central Asian. It’s no more Middle Eastern than Turkmenistan or Pakistan

            The Middle East is basically just West Asia (sometimes known as South-West Asia) minus Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia and plus two transcontinental countries; Turkey (mostly in Asia except for East Thrace in Europe) and Egypt (mostly in Africa except for the Sinai Peninsula in Asia)

    • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      I guess you’re right, the only possibility is that people like their post partition nation and national identities. There’s really no other explanation and no I won’t read any history to find out. Good thing the British came along and taught those foolish savages who they are.

    • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Why is that enough time? It’s not as though North Ireland and Ireland are united. They’ve had plenty of time to figure out what they want to do.

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        Because, unlike Ireland, England isn’t enforcing this anymore, and hasn’t in forever

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          I don’t think that’s quite right. From what you said, if I understand, the enforcement, and recency are the determining factors? Nothing of justice or fairness? I suppose any atrocity or action is fine as long as the people who were alive at the time (we’ll ignore their descendants whose lives are obviously affected) are dead and gone for a few decades.

          Why is 80 years enough? Where did you even get that number? I figure you started off with “this is ok”, then looked at how much time passed, then declared it was “enough”.

            • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              I don’t really agree. I’m responding to the thesis of your first comment regarding the arab countries having had enough time to get over the borders they were given. Why is that not what you wrote?

    • iie [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      They tried. Pan-Arabism was a massive movement, especially under Nasser. It was opposed by America, western Europe, Israel, the Arab monarchies, and later on, the Islamic extremist movements these nations armed and funded in secular Arab nations.