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by Zigurd 4256 days ago
"Turbulent times" but at much lower stakes. If you take oil off the table as an incitement to resource wars, there is much less chance of US, Russian, or Chinese adventurism. That's a tradeoff I'd take.

Having to get serious about building open modern secular self-sustaining economies would not be a bad influence on that region either.