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Right. I don't really stomach how long we've been in the Middle East and I don't like the idea of those with incentives to go to war prolonging and pushing war.
by abnry 5y ago
Right. I don't really stomach how long we've been in the Middle East and I don't like the idea of those with incentives to go to war prolonging and pushing war. But geopolitics is very messy. Instability in a region can encourage other leaders to take advantage and cause even more geopolitical upheaval.
- JasonFruit 5y agoInstability can cause upheaval, sure — but are we preventing instability or upheaval? It seems to me that we are prolonging instability and promoting extremism and terrorism by blundering in with our military. Is the Middle East, for example, any less unstable than it was three decades ago?
- ceejayoz 5y ago> are we preventing instability or upheaval? Part of the problem in geopolitics is that there's genuinely no way to ever know this sort of thing, without read/write access to a multiverse. Is the Middle East more or less stable than three decades ago is hard to assess on its own, let alone "what would it have been with/without adding x".
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Part of the problem in geopolitics is that there's genuinely no way to ever know this sort of thing, The other problem is that while people talk about caring about this, none of the actors who pretend to actually have this as their primary goal, its just an excuse used when advantage, not stability, is being sought.
- gugagore 5y ago"Geopolitics is messy" is a wonderful way to justify any atrocity. Where is the accountability?