What happens if the War in the Middle East ever stops generating obscene profits?
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An actual historian can chime in if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the middle east has had some sort of internal or external conflict going on for all of history. So the answer to your question is likely "still war".
I’m pretty sure the middle east has had some sort of internal or external conflict going on for all of history
Prior to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East enjoyed centuries of peace and prosperity. From the 13th to 20th centuries, you were far safer in Damascus or Baghdad or Tehran than Paris or Berlin or Rome. Europe was in a continuous state of civil conflict during this period.
The Middle Eastern states were a popular refuge for European civilians fleeing the 30-Years-War, the Napoleonic Wars, the various wars of consolidation and independence following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the World Wars. Countries from Morocco to Iran were all common destinations thanks to their unaligned status and divorce from the conflicts in Europe. More common even than the Americas. In fact, a big early appeal of the Palestinian Mandate was that it allowed Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike to escape the pogroms north of the Mediterranean.
In the early years, at the start of the Cold War, a number of the former European colonies broke away from their now-destitute colonial masters. This lead to brief civil struggles, largely centered around the capitals where all those European WW1/2 refugees had piled in. But by and large, the democratization of the Middle East was far more peaceful than the democraticization of Europe.
It wasn't until the 1950s, when spy games between the US and the USSR began to topple unaligned governments, that war in the Middle East became commonplace. But what we're seeing today is a novelty of the 20th/21st century. You're ignoring centuries of peaceful coexistence and fixating on a few ancient (Crusades) and a few very recent (Soviet/Post-Soviet) violent flare ups.
So I checked Wikipedia, and the list of conflicts in the middle east in the years between 1300 to 1800 is far from empty. I know it's easier to blame everything on the US, but you are ignoring dozens of different conflicts that occurred during that span of years.
I can't believe this racist bullshit is getting upvoted. Europe has far more of a history of being perpetually at war than the middle east.
Damn that's even better.
Pretty sure it's the rich and powerful who expect to become more rich and more powerful when there is war in the Middle East that bring about war in the Middle East.
Politicians,
If we spend a trillion of taxpayers money to kill brown civilians, it will funnel billions into the pockets of the worst scum on earth, and they will funnel that tax money that could have been used on healthcare, housing, education.. straight into my pockets.
Politicians literally burning taxpayers and human lives in order to get a billionth of that cash.
imagine robbing a bank, by setting it on fire with people inside, only to walk away with 3$ and call it a success.
Religion will create all war in the Middle East.
People who don't read history create reductive takes
Most of the war in the middle east for the past century was created by secular imperialists, motivated by material greed and racism.
Except almost all the problems in the middle east today can be traced to the Sykes pico agreement and imperialism by secular powers
War... War in the Middle East never changes.
When the rich want war it’s the poor who have to die.
I'm gassy. I haven't started war in the middle east yet, but I'm young. Ish.
hey, we all grow up at our own time.
no rush,
you'll start your war in the middle east when you're ready.
What if we all converted to the same religion, mine?
I am interested!
I'm pretty much already part of your religion I just disagree with you on one very minor detail. We are now mortal enemies.
But i like my holy spaghettimonster. It looks tasty and in the afterworld is a beervolcano (where some of believers agree that it gives any drink poeple like)
Too bad, we worship capybaras now and only do what they tell us to do. Now get in the bath and put an orange on your head!
Oil makes war in the middle east.
Sounds like men are the problem.
I mean have you met men? It's starting to come together in my mind that because of the societal pressure to prevent us from expressing feelings in a healthy manner this is ALL a direct result of it.
I'm a man. Bring on the matriarchy! So long as the matriarchy isn't a bunch of Thatchers!
Edit: oh, hey, cake!
"...it's been burning since the world's been turning..."
It's called zionism.
People have been slaughtering each other for well over 5000 years in the Middle East.
under that logic people have been slaughtering each other all over the world.
the largest reason of war in the middle east are neocolonialism (western blocks controlling their puppet states for oil) and actually old timey settler colonialism (Zionism).
saying "people have been slaughtering each other for..." is such a non answer.
why did Nazis invade France? because they been fighting in Europe for thousands of years
why was JFK shot? because people have been killing eachother for thousands of years
you see how meaningless, non answer it is?
I bloody hate though terminating clichés.
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.”
Hard times create strong men, strong men create hard times
Hard men create strong times.
Strong times create hard soft.
Hard soft creates confused hard men.
Confused hard soft create man times.
Hard men create harder men.
Men create man hard soft times for men
who are not soft but actually quite hard.
Didn't know weak mean makes you hard, but do you have to tell everyone?
OMG, Nostradamus was right!!!
"An empire will rise"
"An empire will fall"
"War will break out in the Middle East"
"The Boston Red Sox will win a World Series"
OMG, was this man a wizard or what?!!
Everyone has their war in the Middle East except the weak men who put it on the Middle East for some reason
I'm a weak man UwU
strong men create good times (when they meet the weak man)
; )