> Everything in this part of the world is on a rinse snd repeat cycle ever since the Assyrians and the Babylonians That's an incredible statement, as if the r

> Everything in this part of the world is on a rinse snd repeat cycle ever since the Assyrians and the Babylonians That's an incredible statement, as if the rest of the world is somehow different. The only thing special about these regions is that they've had complex states for longer, so of course state-based warfare would go back farther. On another level, there absolutely have been periods of stability in regions of the middle east, for periods of time we would consider long.