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    7 hours ago

    helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions…

    Holy shit tell me more. I’m an Arab and this is my first time hearing of this.

    • shaserlark@sh.itjust.works
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      I found a paper on this here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.35.3.0255

      Seems like they were actually on the side of the dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen until they realized that they’d collapse. I think Libya is very well remembered, they just completely ruined what was formerly a stable, wealthy country (although a dictatorship of course).

      Also especially in Egypt when the elections didn’t turn out the way they wanted it because the Muslim Brotherhood candidate won, they backed the regime change and since then Egypt has a new dictator loyal to the US and Israel.