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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/ Elizabeth Thompson

Guerrilla History

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The Middle East and the Ottoman Empire

The ottoman empire had long been a sort of lynch pin in the balance of power in europe since the nineteenth century. The eastern question was all about preventing russia from expanding too far into europe and upsetting the balance of powers in in the region. And so the ottoman Empire had been, for most of the nineteenth century, an ally of the british.

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