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America Is Losing the Arab World (www.foreignaffairs.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Renneder to c/becomeme

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When did "America" (aka only the USA) have the arab world? Did I miss something? I thought they hate the USA?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You thought wrong, in the past the relationship was more complicated than hate. The US still had a lot of appeal and sometimes even looked up to in terms of institutions, rule of law, high literacy, advanced economy and so on. It didn't happen overnight, the sanctions of Iraq in the 1990s and the invasion in 2003 was the start, the genocide in Gaza is the last straw, at least for the masses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I doubt "the Arabs" care about Gaza. Hence closing borders to them and/or not taking refugees, as always.