I'm just going to put out the reminder that if the rest of the colonizing, imperialist world hadn't had an interest in the petroleum reserves under Middle Eastern soil, they likely wouldn't have destabilized the whole region with a host of manipulative international fuckery.
Also, if the ussr & u.s. hadn't had a decades long international cock waving contest, that manipulation wouldn't have happened either.
So much of this awfulness is a direct product of the white world's violent bullshit.
@timberwraith I mean, history debunks those claims.
Political instability in the region long proceeded the oil boom.
@volkris @timberwraith Oil made things worse later, outside powers manipulating countries for resources was always a big problem. India was exploited, literally through a company then Africa for metals, minerals and actual human beings. There was something different in what they did, it correlates with industrialization of which oil was a big part https://muratk5n.github.io/thirdwave/en/0119/2011/04/soviet-imperialism.html
