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(tangent) What environmental disaster caused the Syrian conflict?

• DanBC 7y ago
  Drought may have caused conflict. https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2009/02/22/drought-blamed-food-scarcity https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2009/02/22/drought-b... https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/90442/syria-drought-pushing-millions-poverty https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/90442/syria-drough... https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/88139/syria-over-million-people-affected-drought https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/88139/syria-over-m... https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2009/09/02/drought-driving-farmers-cities https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2009/09/02/drough...
  • no_not_really 7y ago
    Drought, in no way, had anything to do with any of it. If that's what you're trying to push, you're operating an agenda. It's directly connected to Iraq's destabilization and a wave of unrest fomented as proxy wars by external powers at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring