_4cbz

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   by _4cbz 3y ago

   But Syria was doing fairly good economically circa 2010? According to world bank[1] Its GDP per capita was competitive relative to the region. It was ahead of Turkey, for example, and far better than most its neighbors (except Gulf countrie
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   by _4cbz 3y ago

   Surely massacres are not a symptom of desertification?
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   by _4cbz 3y ago

   Because I know for a fact, that no one on the ground was losing sleep over desertification. I'm not dismissing its ecological affect, but to claim it's the root cause, I see as belittling and trying to erase what the people were a
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   by _4cbz 3y ago

   The incompetenes of the government might have lead to desertification but that's merely scratching the suface level of the problems. The article is full of confirmation bias and tunnel vision from an author who wants to think his work