Why is this fucking place so hard to understand and follow

Why is this fucking place so hard to understand and follow

I really want to be the type of person who can talk about it with some confidence and authority, make a decent case against foreign intervention there, etc but it's too convoluted

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Well, you see user, it's a classic case of humans vs. orcs…

It's not actually that complicated. Thinktank "analysts" just obfuscate what's going on in the MENA region because it gives them job security and the truth would piss their donors off. The truth is that while there are a lot of different militias, most of them fall under a few larger spheres of influence. And the material interests are usually very obvious.

To add to this, western powers basically drew their borders for them, resulting in quite a mess

this is why Holla Forumsyps and other strains of morons really piss me off when they say there's nothing but barbarians there and that muh yuro whites did literally all of history
god fuck
sage because I'm not contributing shit to the thread

Please limit all your analogies to Harry Potter and Hamilton

I wish I could explain MENA in terms of Harry Potter but Harry Potter is this "one side is good, one side is bad!" whereas there are multiple, equally or comparably evil factions in MENA.

Fucking Jews.

thanks for your input, tiny baby man

three letters.

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Almost every conflict or instability in the middle east can be more or less accurately reduced to shia vs sunni conflict or an iran vs saudi thing (which is mostly on shia vs sunni lines)

Its only complicated if you're a retarded neoliberal who is trying to figure out the 4th dimensional chess moves required to make Saudi Arabia into a liberal democracy with no effort on your part or whatever

the fact that he's seen as some kind of respected intellectual is frightening
for fuck's sake, advocating nuclear first strike should consign you to the dustbin of public life

Because people are fighting over their bronze age religions

He's off his nut, but in this day and age terrorism (which is what using nuclear weapons inherently is cuz they always hurt innocent civilians) is justified if your ( ( (intention) ) ) is to fight extremism cuz people who look up to Sam Harris low-key really fucking hate Muslims no matter what so he gets a pass for being a le rational, free-thinking, facts > feels intellectual.

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All their neighbors hates them, but they got nukes so no one dares to directly fuck with them. Okay place to live if you're Jewish but makes hell for the Palestinians.
Most westernized muslim country turning increasingly fascist under Erdogan. Minorities and opposition are getting increasingly pissed off.
Fundie clusterfuck + /rojava/ aka Kurdistan. Putin is BFF with Assad, but the west hates him. Rebels and IS will be stomped out eventually, but as for the Kurds the future is unclear.
Shia semi-terrorist organization Hezbollah is at odds with the ruling sunni government.
Nothing to say.
Somewhat of a US puppet state after the war with the shia minority ruling it. The islamic state is fucking around there but will soon be eradicated. Kurds are self-governing in the north.
North Korea of the middle east. All its neighbors hates them because they are Shia. Got nukes going so the west hates them as well.
Greatest sponsors of Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism worldwide. Of course no one acknowledges this because of le oil.
Rich as fuck because of oil. Qatar recently pissed of its neighbors because of Al Jazeera and trying to be friends with Iran.
Dunno
There's a civil war no one cares about.
Shitty fundie dictatorship replaced another shitty fundie dictatorship.

Egypt is a secular junta that functions at the behest of the west. They are not "fundie" at all

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Depends on what you compare it with.

Well the whole raison d'être for the current egyptian govt is to keep the fundamentalist muslim brotherhood out of power, a tradition carried from earlier Egyptian presidents who used the brotherhood as a constant bogieman to justify authoritarian tendencies. Calling them fundamentalist kind of sidesteps that whole point

Spoilered for actual spoilers of Cyclonopedia.

The Middle East is a sentient entity, and through the use of various agents – oil smugglers, prophets, jihadis etc. – it seeks to epand the desert onto the entire surface of the Earth. And its agents accomplish this by fostering the digging up of oil and its immolation, as it rises from deep in th ground towards the light of the sun the Middle East rebels against. "Petroleum poisons Capitalism with absolute madness…capitalism is not a human symptom but rather a planetary inevitability. In other words, Capitalism was here even before human existence, waiting for a host." With gargantuan amounts of oil burned, climate changes upwards, and lo, the entire world turns into a desert.

Honestly, i'm not sure this is the actual plot of Cyclonopedia. Even if the ideas behind it are brilliant, the book itself is almost literally unreadable.

Watch the Adam Curtis documentary, I forget what it's called though.

Bitter Lake
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He's lowkey a Zionist. On his show he says point blank that he don't criticize Israel and if he's forced to talk bout the shitty things the Israeli government does in a debate or interview his attitude's basically "based ally dindu nuffin".

He's a pro-war propaganda mouthpiece disguised as a militant atheist intellectual.

Hardly

Literally every other thing you wrote is bullshit.