Message from @allgoodguy
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I wouldn't advocate for us to militarily get involved over there any more. THAT doesn't make any sense.
It really does. Oil was one of the first international markets.
What about sugar
copper
Slaves
copper was traded all throughout eurasia in the bronze age
Crusades
flint was traded around before then
tbh we should either go all or nothing in the middle east
ok, in the current, post-colonial economies.
i'd prefer nothing
Copper and tin were pretty major in the bronze era because they are rarely co-located.
but if you don't fully invest in essentially colonizing a place you're spending more in the long term
No colonizing has a lot of maintenance costs.
Ask Britain and France.
right but at this point it'd be nation building
And it cost both dearly in military upkeep.
islam is too cancerous to do anything about
i don't think there will ever be peace in the ME
better to contain it
idk
It goes much deeper than Islam. Again, this is the two empires of Persia and Arabia who will never stop their fight until one is dead.
The media tries their best to sell this as sectarian violence, but it really has nothing to do with Islam.
The only thing they hate more than each other is Israel.
even then, islam has cyclical effect of people transitioning into mysticism/secularism and then a fundamentalism movement is born and takes over
perennial martin luther that beheads people
The sand-people will return, and in greater numbers.
That's why I'm not averse to them going at it full throttle.
Trump just embarked on a good will mission to the third world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXiF-uhq_RY
The God Emperor has shown patience to the barbarians.....
ROFL
I bet some people were cussing when he made this trip.
Patton had it right "one hundred years ago they were all killing each other with swords, a hundred years from now they will still be killing each other, the only difference, the machine gun."
Patton actually said that?
man was gone too soon
Patton was not fond of the middle east, he basically called them 11th century barbarians with guns on multiple occasions
Ole Monty and even Rommel all believed they were mere savages
Rommel had a good head on him, for a Nazi.