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Is this the new thing now?? Slap opinion text over an irrelevant image so it qualifies as a meme?
The Middle East is so violent! (They literally created Israel and gave rise to the oil vassal states)
Don’t forget the French too
The system is working as intended
Saw the food and my brain translated that to “The Middle Eats.”
Gonna open a Lebanese restaurant with this name
Ah yes because there was never any war or violence in that area before the British Empire… Right?
Every region has a violent history, but the current political configuration in the Middle East is directly a consequence of Western imperialism, even while many among the Western populations carry a sense of smug self satisfaction.
Yeah well they invented Islam and Christianity so they’re still winning in the “causing violence” department
I feel like thats a bit dishonest, saying it like that kind of implies that instability and violence in the region is only a result of western imperialism, and kind of ignored both non western imperialist influences on the area and the deep history of internal conflict in the region.
Imperialism by its essence is the overarching influence in the region, as the system of global hegemony. Other influences are subordinated and distorted that they conform to such hegemony.
The disparities between various regions, such as between Europe versus the Middle East, are directly a consequence of imperialism imposed by the former on the latter, not by either carrying an intrinsic superiority or deformity.
Yes the middle east is only 300 years old.
