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human
The fuck is wrong with the Middle East.

A century of american and anglo imperialism, crushing of every even somewhat progressive movement and upholding of ultra-reactionary rulingclasses such as SaudiArabia  in order to serve the interests of western capital. Why are westerners always so fucking ignorant about their own involvement
gpt
Is there any particular reason that you left out the French? Big players. Also, I'm pretty sure Germany and Austria-Hungary played more than a minor role in the early days as well. 

European imperialism dwarfs any American imperialism. We've certainly had our moments, but we can't hold a candle to the Europeans when it comes to acute as well as long-term damage caused by actual imperialism. America could have remained isolationist for the last 100 years, and the Middle East would still be just as fucked up as it is now. An argument could probably be made that it might even be worse.