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> When Yemen united its mountainous Islamic tribal north with its mountainous Islamic tribal south, many observers were adamant that the experiment was doomed t
by senkora 5y ago
> When Yemen united its mountainous Islamic tribal north with its mountainous Islamic tribal south, many observers were adamant that the experiment was doomed to fail. The differences between the two sides were too great.
Clever.
- yyyk 5y agoFunny, but super-reductive. It's like describing every country fighting in WW2 as a 'Christian urban state' - with the exception of the officially atheist USSR. Obviously the war was between USSR and everyone else. Oh, that's the Red Alert timeline, not the real one.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoWell, except that as the situation developed, it turned into exactly what you describe, a conflict between the USSR and everybody else. That tends to suggest that the analysis has value.
- lazide 5y agoNo love for Japan?
- thaumasiotes 5y agoNo. Why? The cultural analysis would tell you that Japan is the natural enemy of every European country including the USSR. In a conflict between several European countries, what does that suggest? We see them in history attacking every nearby European country (in which category I'm including the US) as well as their actual enemy, China. Where's the surprise?
- lazide 5y agoAnd the Turks! Since the suggestion it was two sided, when really it was more hexagonal.
- zapataband1 5y agoActually it turned into the U.S./established capital powers against any inkling of communism and any poor nation that USSR decided to aid.
- zapataband1 5y agoWhy downvote when you can just google? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U... The aftermath of the Second World War resulted in a foreign policy in which the U.S. sought to oppose world communism. The ensuing Cold War resulted in the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter, and Reagan Doctrines, all of which saw the U.S. embrace espionage, regime change, proxy conflicts, and other clandestine activity internationally against the Soviet Union.
- zapataband1 5y agoAnd here's an analysis on soviet foreign aid to third world countries https://www.jstor.org/stable/151493 https://www.jstor.org/stable/151493
- tofof 5y agoExcept Japan, and China, and the USSR, and also Ethiopia and Libya and Algeria and Egypt and India and the Phillipines ......
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoEthiopia and Philippines are very Christian, though maybe not as urban.
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