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>> No. 28523 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 12:38 pm
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In December it'll be 10 years since the so-called Arab Spring started.

What did it actually achieve? Apart from toppling Gaddafi, Mubarak and probably a few others I'm quite clueless about it.
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>> No. 28524 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 1:10 pm
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>>28523


Look at how well Egypt is doing now though!
>> No. 28525 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 1:54 pm
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It hasn't gone brilliantly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)
>> No. 28526 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 3:21 pm
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>Apart from toppling Gaddafi, Mubarak and probably a few others

Well, I mean, cheap holidays to Egypt and it turns out diggers are very good in opposing Turkish security services.

I went to university with an Egyptian who had been shot during the revolution. As you can imagine he ended up disheartened with politics given what happened which is probably indicative of the chances of another experiment with democracy there.
>> No. 28527 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 7:03 pm
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>>28524
This is brilliant. They should closed caption it. The shit he says with a serious tone is ridiculous. They need to learn "parkour" to beat daft militant wog.
>> No. 28528 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 7:47 pm
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>>28523
>What did it actually achieve?

>only the uprising in Tunisia has resulted in a transition to constitutional democratic governance.

Well that's all you need to know isn't it? In so many countries the revolutions, as most revolutions tend to, were either crushed or became the oppressors - but in Tunisia it worked. They have a functioning democracy. It's a light in the darkness.
>> No. 28541 Anonymous
24th October 2020
Saturday 5:03 pm
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>>28526

>In so many countries the revolutions, as most revolutions tend to, were either crushed or became the oppressors

Revolutions devour their children, as an old saying goes. Many revolutions in history were followed by oppressive or totalitarian regimes because they seized the opportunity of filling the power vacuum after the old elites were deposed. It was that way in the French revolution, in Russia, and places like Cuba or indeed even the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Almost all of those revolutions began with the highest aspirations of liberty and equality, but they just ended up swapping out one corrupt elite for another corrupt elite. Because what you need to run a country isn't idealists who don't know much else besides the fact that they want the old regime gone. You need realists with power instincts and the will to usurp that power. Who then tend to be just as corrupt and oppressive as the old regime.
>> No. 28542 Anonymous
24th October 2020
Saturday 10:50 pm
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Obama / Clinton / Blair fucked up North Africa. Gaddafi always used the threat of being able to hold back the influx of North African Islamic mentalists rather than the ability to gain weapons. Bombama thought he could liberate the people, in the same way that the left could liberate Iran from the Shah. It all fucked up leading to a power vacuum and a militant brigade of ISIS moving from Syria, moving in to dominate North Africa and co-ordinating efforts with people smugglers to infiltrate Europe via Italy (Lampedusa) or wait for countries to accept them as ' refugees'.
>> No. 28543 Anonymous
25th October 2020
Sunday 12:00 am
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>>28542
What's going on in this photo, white middle class kids plus some boomers LARPing as refugees??
>> No. 28544 Anonymous
25th October 2020
Sunday 1:47 am
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>>28543
It's an invasion m8. Send them all back to Oxford-bongo-land.
>> No. 28545 Anonymous
25th October 2020
Sunday 7:50 am
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>>28543
It's an Amsterdam canal cruise.

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