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You could reroot the pipeline through israel? or egypt? The syrian crisis was a sunni -shia powerblock escalation. The problem i have is that we - the west sid
by WillReplyfFood 9y ago
You could reroot the pipeline through israel? or egypt?
The syrian crisis was a sunni -shia powerblock escalation.
The problem i have is that we - the west side with the wrong faction here.
Assad had many minorities somehow getting along, no sunni country has that.
Iran is quite inventive - even if the relgious fanatics try to come down on that.
Western money flows through saudi arabia an finances wahabit missionarys everywhere.
Are we really assisting the good guys here?
- simias 9y agoDo you think hacker news is the good place to find the answer to such a question? This is the place where you ask about Javascript libraries and Go vs. Rust comparisons, not geopolitical advice. That's why I tend to dismiss any comment in this thread that's not properly sourced.
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoYou are propably right. But sometimes such discussion can meta-stasize into intersting ones. For example- what is the definition of a good guy? Is a good guy something stable, reliable, someone behaving reproducable? Is a good guy somebody who gives you a short term reward, and costs you dearly in the long run? Or can a good guy be someone who costs you short term, but becomes a long term positiv force. What if somebody is hostile, but stabilizes out of self-interest a otherwise negative are in the world. Its all very complicated, and the dynamics playing into it, can be horrifying for anyone idealistic.