I’d argue it’s both. We’re still under occupation, it’s just both by western countries and ourselves. It’s a miserable truth that we all have to live with, fascism has been alive and kicking in the ME for a century [at least]. I often tear up thinking where did we go wrong but i always remember it’s the same parasites: authoritarians. They’d sell us all into slavery for a quick buck in a heart beat, they cannot be trusted around anything.

I know it will all end eventually, but that will take decades, or even centuries. All for what? the british wanting to defeat the ottomans?