Pretty much anytime I see coverage (to be fair I'm watching BBC, reading things other than CNN or the like) it makes it clear that there are no good guys here,

Pretty much anytime I see coverage (to be fair I'm watching BBC, reading things other than CNN or the like) it makes it clear that there are no good guys here, just various forms of victims and victimizers. If there's one steady factor I've noted across all sources though, it's the inability or lack of willingness to connect this incredible surge in violence and instability across North Africa and the Middle East to climate change and drought. The "Arab Spring" was just part of that; people who couldn't work, couldn't feed themselves or their families. It was always going to go downhill, but people love their narratives of hope.