Why did the Arabs betray the Ottoman empire? Why the Brits decide to support them? Are they stupid?

Why did the Arabs betray the Ottoman empire? Why the Brits decide to support them? Are they stupid?

>Are they stupid?
More like very shortsighted

It was basically some ambitious arabs wanting to rule the middle east instead they got eternally ANGLO'd.

Ethnic Arabs didn't like being ruled by ethnic Turks, who they viewed as being just as foreign as white Europeans. The Arab tribes also accused the Turks of not being devout or true enough to Islam, and becoming too secular.

The Brits supported the Arabs for the fairly obvious reason of being at war with the Ottomans and wanting to encourage as much domestic discontent as possible to fuck with the Ottomans. The British public were also fairly arabphilic at this time, and viewed them with an old-fashioned sense of romanticism.

I never heard of the arabs seeing turks as so foreign do you have any source for this?

'The Ottoman Endgame' by Sean McMeekin, specifically the chapters regarding the Arab Revolt.

Thanks will check it out.

>fairly arabphilic at this time
you mean all the time

>who they viewed as being just as foreign as white Europeans.
*gets ruled by seljuks*
*gets ruled by turkic mamluks*
*gets ruled by buyids*
*uses turkic mercenaries*
hmmm seems like historically Arabs get TURKED whenever they have the chance to be ruled

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>Euroshits plotted the demise of the Ottoman Empire that was already trying to modernize and even liberalize by the 1870s only to be faced with a much more cancerous version of Islam.
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simply ibn :^)

Did that really not work out for them, or were they merely breaking up a regional power. Destabilizing the middle-east is pretty productive.

But Euroshits kept Ottoman Empire alive during most of 19th century :V

German Euroshits did.

Britain and France kept on chipping away at the Arab peripheries of the Ottoman Empire. ESPECIALLY Britain because it was bawwing as fuck when the Ottomans replaced them with Germans as their main technical/modernization advisers.

Absolute rubbish, the Brits never supported the Saudis , they knew that Wahhabism was awful. Although they should have helped more the neighbouring tribes against the Saudis in order to prevent a united arabia under Saudi rule, but then again they didn't know about all that oil that would make them rich.

>what is crimean war

Something that happened early in the 19th Century and not After.

Doesn't matter. Ar*bs can't live in a fucking organized state due to their tribal autism. Its not just the Wahhabs really.

>early in the 19th Century
>1853 is early in the 19th century
Never change, T*rkroaches

christ you're dumb

OE was a dying roach on its deathbed and actual powers as European countries kept it alive for muh balance of powah. You're irrelevant

>Europeans Kept it alive!
>Brit/French/Russian support of Balkan independence movements
k.

Some new founded small balkan shitholes won't hurt any balance of power, Russia taking crimea, or balkan for that matter, would tho.

The point is that Arabia would have been different if the Wahhabis had been eradicated.

If it weren't for France and the UK the OE would have likely been destroyed or at least crippled to the point of near collapse by the Russians in the Crimean war