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The 'arab spring' is nothing but the US and other vested interests stirring up trouble in these countries. Revolution does not happen by itself. It takes money,
by throw2016 10y ago
The 'arab spring' is nothing but the US and other vested interests stirring up trouble in these countries. Revolution does not happen by itself. It takes money, effort and organization to get otherwise passive citizens to raise their head above the parapet and more often than not it's to futher the organizers interests.
Libya before and Libya now is a perfect example of a complete disaster for the people and another crime against humanity.
Saudi Arabia, the most repressive regime in the region and chief promoter of terrorist ideology and the one place that requires a 'spring' is the western world's best friend in the region and remains 'strangely' but predictably untouched by the 'arab spring'. This is just unadulterated propaganda.
We have far too many of these 'springs' repeated over and over again in the last 100 years to know what's happening and the modus-operandi and yet every story on facebook and twitter naively persist in rehashing this propaganda.
These interventions under the cover of 'human rights' are always to further some agenda and given the massive upheaval and suffering they cause to populations its difficult to see how any believer in humanity can't continue to support these blatantly self serving actions.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> Revolution does not happen by itself I actually think revolution needs to happen by itself. The overlap between the skills needed to organise armed insurrection and to govern are similar. Issues come up when still-formentig revolutions are prematurely encouraged. They may succeed in toppling the prior regime, but they never forged a shared identity and set of norms fit for rallying, organising and deploying force and order - the bread and butter of nascent governance.
- pessimizer 10y agoThe US generally didn't even support the Arab Spring, and actively worked against it in Egypt, a country with nearly as tight a relationship with the US as Saudi Arabia, that receives nearly as much military aid from the US as Israel. Everything is so much more complicated than you're making it out to be here.