• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    You tried to bury this in details, but your entire explanation boils down to “US sponsors their puppet and the US’s enemies sponsor the enemies of the US’s puppet”. It’s a proxy war. That’s really about it.

    You literally just admitted that it is power politics but you tried to pretend like that complicates the situation in any way.

    Yes, there are more details, there are lots of things being said by different actors who all have their own idiosyncratic beliefs and ideas, many of which are fueled by ongoing conflict, but the reason the conflicts in this part of the world are so intractable doesn’t come down to those details. It comes down to the fact that the middle east has reserves of oil that are strategically significant. They are in the middle of a geopolitical tug of war.

    Messy doesn’t mean complicated.

    And none of this excuses the wholesale slaughter of civilians. That part in particular is not at all complicated.