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Competent in the things that... matter...? (lemmy.world)
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[–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be fair, the Arab military industrial complex could be as advanced as the US if they weren’t stuck under dictatorships.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Democratically elected leaders unfortunately existed in proximity to rich oil fields. Foreign powers made it a point there would be fractured dictatorships across literal arbitrary lines.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So are you saying Western involvement helped create the dictatorships in Arab countries? If that’s the case, how did it happen, and why does the Arab world have such strong resentment toward the West?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's a whole lot there, but with the most broad strokes imaginable: Imperialism and the Cold War, both of which are great causes of resentment.

    Secular democracies in the arab world made economic ties with the USSR during the cold war, which was a bad time.

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