Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 hours agoPeople who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down14
arrow-up131arrow-down1message-squarePeople who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 hours agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 hours ago The main players in the Middle East have been fighting for the last 3,000 That’s wildly ahistorical. What you’re describing is the Ottoman Empire, a region that was largely stable and peaceful for centuries.
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 hours agoThen Britain and friends jumped in and drew new borders for everyone because that’s exactly what wasn’t needed.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoDeliberately formed a number of minority controlled governments, with a mandate to kill the majority ethnic group if they got out of line. Israel was one of these, but hardly the only one.
That’s wildly ahistorical.
What you’re describing is the Ottoman Empire, a region that was largely stable and peaceful for centuries.
Then Britain and friends jumped in and drew new borders for everyone because that’s exactly what wasn’t needed.
Deliberately formed a number of minority controlled governments, with a mandate to kill the majority ethnic group if they got out of line.
Israel was one of these, but hardly the only one.