Why the fuck was the West in this shithole in the first place?

Why the fuck was the West in this shithole in the first place?

Oil.

Hey OP, ever heard of *ahem* MUH IMPERIAAAAAAAAAAAAALISM

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Freedom jihad and oil.

To stop the damn commies.

That bit that's called Turkey was the West's for over 2000 years, and Syria too, for less.

That's bullshit

First for a religious craze over relics, pilgrimage, and end times prophesy. Then for chivalric glory and trade wealth. Then for securing access to vulnerable colonies further East and South. Finally, for oil.

And that's just the last thousand years.

To steal things.

to turn it into a shit hole

The East started it.

Persians invaded Greece

>Implying Greeks didn't invade Greeks first

The whole area including North Africa was cristian before 7th century

>Freedom, (crusade against) jihad, and oil.
Are those the new "gold, gospel, glory"?

Cold war policy.

Iran/Iraq both modernized and became a republic instead of monarch.

US overthrew both republics and tried to turn them into a everlasting unstable region to deny Soviets communist supporters.

The oil issue is an easy scapegoat people tell themselves into ignoring the reality of the failed US policies.

US is often short sighted in their foreign policies. These are mostly swept under the rug as either collateral or given plausible deniability explanations.

>Greeks didn't invade Greeks first
wut

I know you're probably kidding (at least I hope you are), but there is a disturbingly high amount of Americans who actually think along these lines.

This proves that they are high IQ. They saw how shitty Christcuckery was hundreds of years before the supposedly master race whites could. And unlike whites, it was catered to their sensibilities and culture in the first place

>The whole area
Not really. The Levant, Anantolia, and North Africa sure, but the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, and everything east of it? Not at all.
>before 7th century
Yeah, and it was all non-Christian before the 3rd century.

Christianity used to have a huge presence in what is now Iraq.

At first because it was one of the better overland routes to China, then Oil was discovered.

Middle Easterners are white. Or at least a lot of them are.

...because Deus Vult

Depends on your definition of "white." If you mean to be synonymous with Caucasoid, then pretty much all Middle Easterners are white, along with some Indians and North Africans. However, if you're basing it just on skin tone then it's a lot more subjective and up for debate. Especially since the skin tone of the populations of many Middle Eastern countries are not all that uniform.