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The kingdom may have been founded 90 years ago and the sun set on the British empire, but you can't say other powers such as the US and Russia didn't take their
by dashundchen 7y ago
The kingdom may have been founded 90 years ago and the sun set on the British empire, but you can't say other powers such as the US and Russia didn't take their place in the Middle East in another form.
See also the overthrow of Iran, 2 invasions of Iraq, hundreds of billions of US arm sales to both Israel and Saudi Arabia, indirect involvement in the invasion of Yemen, the Russian/US/Iranian proxy war in Syria, I'm sure there's much more.
I can't think of another region of the earth that has faced more foreign involvement in the past 50 years.
- apta 7y agoNot to mention the splitting up of the Levant into (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine), then taking Palestine and giving it to the Jews while kicking out the local populations.
- roywiggins 7y agoThe US more or less just slotted itself in as the successor to the British empire after WWII. I'm sure it's much more complicated than that, but the US (like the Brits) is a globe-spanning naval power not unlike the Brits were.