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by randomopining
1444 days ago
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How are they exploiting Iran? The gov there wants to upset stable power alignments and expand their reach to the Mediterranean, so they can have more power. They openly say they want to destroy Israel. How would that be the "good guy" in your worldview? |
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The conflict we see today in the Middle East and also the Global South largely comes from colonialism and unpaid reparations. Specially, stuff like the Sykes-Picot agreement that assigned arbitrary borders to countries composed of overlapping cultural groups that previously had their own peace/trade agreements. I'm not super strong on history, but the rabbit hole goes down endlessly and countless books have been written about work by the CIA to destabilize various regions to maintain western (US) control during the Cold War, for example by overthrowing Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, which flipped Iran from democracy to theocracy:
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cia-assisted-cou...
My understanding is that what we see on the news today is double-talk and chest thumping where opposing sides talk past one another because the truth has been obfusecated under decades of falsehoods designed to perpetuate certain narratives. Similar plots have played out in Central America and Southeast Asia.
So basically a billion or more people have been caught in conflict that prevents the kind of long-term stability needed to build strong economies. Which keeps prices an order of magnitude lower than they should be so that developed nations can import cheap goods and services to maintain hegemony over the "developing" nations.
But with the internet transcending borders and the world transitioning to sustainability, it's not clear how resource wars will play out. Personally, I believe that the world was poised to make the transition to sustainability around 2000 (and maybe as early as 1980), but due to Peak Oil and the fall of the Soviet Union, the illuminati (I'm being a bit silly using that word) doubled down on unsustainability and funded divisive leaders around the world to encourage nationalism and maintain the status quo. So the last 20-40 years is kind of an alternate timeline based in ideology instead of say, egalitarianism.
Most people's incomes in developed nations are either propped up by or come entirely from this exploitation. My feeling is that peace with Iran could happen tomorrow, all we have to do is educate the rest of the world on a century of subterfuge. That's why education is often defunded and in the US we still can't look ourselves in the mirror when it comes to stuff like critical race theory. Without colonies to exploit, we've begun exploiting ourselves, and doubling down on ever more austerity policies designed to destroy the middle class to create more cheap workers for the capitalist class.
TL;DR: Middle East conflict is spun to divide us, but if the players talked openly and honestly about peace without interference from profiteers, we would all find that we have far more in common than we've been led to believe.