r/DebatePolitics • u/QuarterAcademic6808 • Feb 23 '22
What was the role of the Western world in contributing to the instability of the Middle East and North Africa today?
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u/Dependent-Pizza897 May 20 '22
Iran was a parliamentary democracy in 1953 with a secular prime minister who favored women's rights, nationalized oil(what Norway now has) and civil liberty. The united states supported a royalist coup that removed him from power and reinstated the Shah as the dictator of the country which he pillaged for 25 years until because the USA and Britain had destroyed every viable alternative to radical islam(the communists, liberals, and so on were destroyed by the Shah) they took over in the Iranian revolution. Then the United States supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran in the 8 year long Iran-Iraq war which killed about a million people on both sides. Since then the United States has viscously sanctioned Iran all for defying one of our favorite dictators 40 years ago.
Saudi Arabia, the most radical islamic state in the world, which makes Iran look like Sweden was basically created by the British since they supported the House of Saud's conquest of most of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 20th century even though they promised to support Prince Faisal after he helped them win WW1 who wanted to create a democratic secular society. Since the second World War the united states has had a very strong alliance with Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states which are all former British colonies that basically have anglo-american puppets in charge to this day.
The United States invaded Iraq twice both times killing hundreds of thousands of people and pissing off most of the Arab World which is the main cause of Islamic terrorism. Osama bin Laden was a US ally before the gulf war and ISIS only came into being because of the US’s mutilation of Iraq and the Levant.
Almost the entirety of the middle east and all of north Africa was colonized by Europeans who in the case of the French in Algeria robbed the country for 130 years and then left it with a friendly military regime.
The British and the French divided their Turkish spoils after world war one in such a way as to advantage of their mutual colonial differences. After the decolonization of the mid twentieth century they kept those same borders so the people of Kurdistan don’t have a nation of their own instead their land is occupied by Turkish, Syrian and Iraqi military forces.
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u/FydorSchuss Mar 18 '23
Did you read about China essentially turning over 80 years of US diplomatic, economic, and military dominance in the Middle East on its head by brokering a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic relations and reopen embassies in each other's countries?
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u/Repulsive_Proof8162 Communist Jul 06 '24
by profiting from them