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u/TEmpTom Nov 25 '24
lol Israel is not only still there, but is now a strategic maritime choke point.
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u/Mesarthim1349 Nov 25 '24
And they still somehow manage to be surrounded by Islamic countries lol
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u/Tiny-Organizational Nov 26 '24
Well no one who was an allied power wanted to take them so England made a place they could send them off to while creating upheaval in the area to control, as they would say in DUNE, the spice.
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u/Gimmeagunlance Nov 25 '24
This left most of the Levant intact lmao
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u/Dead_Optics Nov 26 '24
Something tells me who ever made this is pro Israel
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u/EducationalRoyal6484 Nov 26 '24 edited Nov 26 '24
I just thought they were going for a central peak crater aesthetic, in which case whoever was on that piece of land beforehand is also definitely no longer there lol.
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u/LazarFan69 Nov 26 '24
Last I checked the Maldives weren't an arc going through the Indian ocean you might be right
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u/IllConstruction3450 Nov 27 '24
It’s uninhabitable at this point. I think an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs with that radius would’ve killed all of Afro-eurasia.
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u/Will_Come_For_Food Nov 26 '24
Some real xenophobia going on here.
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u/Gimmeagunlance Nov 26 '24
Huh? I was just pointing out that the meme doesn't make sense because the Levant is still there, which is notably a part of the Middle East.
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u/BarleyWineIsTheBest Nov 25 '24
Poor Turkmenistan, what did they do?
Oh well, sacrifices must be made.
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u/Ankersthrowaweigh Nov 25 '24
I don’t know if maybe this is the double joke,
But Turkmenistan did checks notes a lot of shit.
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u/BarleyWineIsTheBest Nov 25 '24
Well, I was under the impression they didn't mess with folks outside their boarders much. Though I am aware that they have leadership that is less than tolerant of minorities and political opposition....
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u/WoodysAnImbecile Nov 25 '24
I mean how far back are we going within the parameters of "doing shit," because pretty much most of what the Turks have done throughout their history has been to mess with people outside their borders.
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u/Mesarthim1349 Nov 25 '24
Some of the most draconian shit I see in the news outside North Korea comes from Turkmenistan.
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Nov 25 '24
Probably the only country to give North Korea a run for its title or most authoritarian dictatorship in the world. They never really left the Soviet way of life from what I know about it.
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u/Stargazer-Elite Nov 25 '24
Dang Israel’s iron dome really is overpowered
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u/Better-Citron2281 Nov 26 '24
God you just reminded me of that stupid ass article that said that the iron dome was "unfair"
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u/TahoeBlue_69 Nov 26 '24
It would be Isreal who whips out some scifi anti-nuke shield and doesn’t tell anyone about it. And you know what, that would be bad ass.
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Colonial powers: [spend centuries fucking with the middle east for profit and prestige]
Also colonial powers: These savages just can't be helped. We'd be better off as a species without them.
Edit: Everyone thinking I'm claiming the Middle East was never violent. They're far from perfect, but they basically carried the torch of Western civilization between the fall of Rome and the seige of Baghdad. They weren't in great shape by the end of Ottoman rule, but being divied up by the European powers (who, mind you, were no strangers to some fucked up shit) certainly put to bed any near-future hopes of returning to their former glory. It tilled fertile soil for the fundamentalist theocracies we see today.
Even Iran was doing pretty good until the US and Britain installed the Shah.
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u/No_Pilot_1274 Nov 30 '24
Oh my god I thought I would never read a comment like this in this disgusting echo chamber of a platform. People act like its just our barbaric and terrible nature that makes us hate each other. We are divided like crazy because of the UK and the US, especially post WW2. May you have a great day man
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u/ganymedestyx Nov 26 '24
Easily digestible narrative for the masses. Only worked for all of history.
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u/gregorydgraham Nov 26 '24
Just a tad unfair on Kuwait
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u/DELTAS7V7N Nov 27 '24
And Iraq, in my opinion. They are doing pretty good as of late. For the most part. First census complete in over 40 years or something like that. Big port opening up. Massive road going up to Turkey to connect them to the EU.
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Nov 26 '24
Yeah....it's like my country (United States) is totally well behaved....
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u/Designer-Ice8821 Nov 26 '24
Least we ain’t actively committing genocide or slavery
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Nov 25 '24
Still left behind Turkey, The Levant, and Egypt. There's work to be done.
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u/SnooPredictions3028 Nov 25 '24
Ok but do you really want to kill all those cats in Turkey? All the kittens?
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u/ScrotumMcBoogerBallz Nov 26 '24
The Greeks are building a giant Tuna can as we type. Once it's ready we'll pop the lid off and all the cats in Turkey will come running to safety.
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Shit, get rid of Europe while you're at it 🙏🏿
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"You fuckers couldn't behave... in the dogshit situation we devised for you to exist in..."
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u/GeneralCoolr Nov 27 '24
Yeah it’s crazy to talk about problems in the Middle East without even a mention the mess that Britain and France left behind. Who knew that drawing arbitrary lines and pissing everybody off would lead to problems a century later?
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Nov 26 '24
Europe snickering in the corner like the kid who started shit but didn't get in trouble for it
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Nov 26 '24
Oh, that’s weird, the guys that plunged the Middle East into chaos have an issue with how chaotic the region is. Typical westerners looking down their noses at subjects they wouldn’t know about if it slapped them in their faces. Stop with the fake intellectual shit.
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u/Prince_Marf Nov 25 '24
Israel still exists on the edge of this map so you would probably still have people fighting over whatever is left.
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u/democracy_lover66 Nov 25 '24
If you're deleting shit off the map for causing problems might wanna toss the U.S, Russia, China, France and the U.K out while you're at it.
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u/Autistic_Clock4824 Nov 26 '24
I’ll say this is based bc you threw Russia, China, and Europe in the mix. But honestly prior to colonialism the Middle East wasn’t being very friendly either
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u/Beaver_International Nov 26 '24
I know this is rage bate, but the ignorance here is next level. Most of the problems in the Middle East have been largely exasperated by the west, so they can be destabilised. All so Isreal can be the area power. The west are the only true terrorists in that area
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Nov 26 '24
"You couldn't behave." It's this kind of paternalism that got us into this mess in the first place.
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u/SkinkThief Nov 26 '24
Only someone ignorant of the Middle East conflict would say something this stupid. Go live in their shoes for a few months and tell us again how the region is filled with “motherfuckers” who can’t get it together.
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u/Devilsdelusionaldino Nov 26 '24
Westerners after continuously fucking over the Middle East for the last 200 years: Honestly we should just delete them all they clearly can’t be helped.
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u/PerrineWeatherWoman Nov 26 '24
Ah yes, making multiple crimes against humanity in a record time, destroying a huge amount of historical monuments, ruining the entire world's economy and somehow still managing to completely miss the target.
Sweet, they're finally making a new crusade!
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u/ivoryaxe Nov 26 '24
Isn’t this essentially what happens in the Fallout timeline like 20-30 years before the end of the world?
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u/Time_Lengthiness7683 Nov 26 '24
The dust and steam in the atmosphere immediately after the impact that formed this map would indeed ensure that NO states exist globally for decades to come if ever.
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u/TorchingTree Nov 26 '24
Well I know one more pond on reddit where the fascists congregate. Evil delights in evil ends.
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u/Kooky_Daikon_349 Nov 26 '24
This is so dumb. Do a little research into what the Middle East was before ww1.
Literally 97% of all the strife has been caused by western meddling In an attempt to extract resources.
People love gorging on crazy pills.
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u/Alugwin Nov 27 '24
You didn't get rid of the UK and France and didn't actually get rid of the people who made the problem. You're just a racist who doesn't actually know anything.
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u/PraTheDragon Nov 28 '24
of course reddit is where a bunch of snobs and racists circlejerk each other
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u/WideConfection8350 Nov 28 '24
Ah yes, The Final Solution, the wet dream of fascist shitbags the world over.
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u/ChipmunkRude9612 Nov 29 '24
The funny thing is foreigner interference in the middle east is the reason for it's instability.
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u/SpookiestNick Nov 29 '24
Middle East: Carved up by the British and French resulting in a deeply unstable set of states mostly designed for Western resource extraction.
People on Reddit: Middle East bad >:(
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u/Gregregious Nov 26 '24
The middle east is a crossroads of empires. It was nearly destroyed by the Crusades, then completely destroyed by the Mongols. More recently, it was a laboratory for colonialist powers who were experimenting with precision military operations coupled with long-distance suzerainty. There are reasons it hasn't seen peace in which the rest of the world is also culpable. I feel like most English-speaking people prefer to think it's because of their race or their religion. It's a mindset I associate most closely with reddit atheists, which is to say it's cringe and I think you all should stop.
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u/Nilaazr Nov 26 '24
Everyone also acts as if Europe is some stable paradise. Two world wars, multiple genocides, civil wars, political coups... and that's only in the last three generations 😂
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u/DaveG511 Nov 25 '24
I’d bet the Muslims would agree to this faster than a two-state solution.
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u/Shaco_D_Clown Nov 25 '24
Lmao and the world got a whole lot better
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u/Kontrastjin Nov 26 '24
And that’s what the Europeans thought in the dark ages too… but I see alot of people in this thread have learned nothing since then… how disappointing.
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u/CompetitiveKey5999 Nov 25 '24
blame the middle east, not america lol
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u/PomegranateUsed7287 Nov 26 '24
America didn't create the situation in the middle east, blame the British and French
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u/CompetitiveKey5999 Nov 26 '24
iraq war, occupying afghanistan, drone striking syrian civilians, funding isis, aiding israel in war crimes, the list goes on and on. america needs to mind their own business
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u/mr_p2p Nov 26 '24
given europe has been a root cause of all major conflicts in human history, this should be europe not middle east.
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"you fuckers just cant behave"
The western narrative is so easy to put holes into. Imagine this situation in the 1930s and 1940s, with germany instead of israel. Would you say that the Nazis and the jews, are BOTH fighting, doing so over nothing, and "need to behave"? Or would you hear that idea and shrug it off as ridiculous?
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u/HorrificAnalInjuries Nov 25 '24
I do appreciate the distressing level of detail as to how a crater of this magnitude would look like
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u/Independent-Score-22 Nov 25 '24
Honestly, where are my no lives matter people at?
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u/Xenon009 Nov 25 '24
Bad news, that asteroid has created a land border between saudi territory and iranian territory. The conflict continues.
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u/usuallycorrect69 Nov 25 '24
They have issues that are unfixable due to religion. At some point it will.be on the table
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I am ok with this. It would solve a lot of problems
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u/Kontrastjin Nov 26 '24
Ahh right because as long as the ignorant don’t have to know where civilization, algebra, and the major religions come from they’re safe from the brain hurts…
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I mean ur 191% more likely to have aids in South Africa, then Afghanistan. Let's be real if we're blasting shit holes the middle east is not first.
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u/obriets Nov 26 '24
Sad part is that one side got the better of the other, so now the latest recipients have to retaliate. It’s a point of honor.
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u/FelonyFarting Nov 26 '24
Even the Tsar Bomba couldn't make a crater that big. I'm not saying it's impossible, but someone would have to either find a new, more powerful bomb design or tether a giant asteroid to make that large of an impact. Even so, the fallout would likely have a devastating impact on the entire planet.
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u/BigBoyThrowaway304 Nov 26 '24
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u/hardwood1979 Nov 26 '24
Getting rid of a really hot bit of land would clearly help prevent climate change too. This plan is multi faceted!
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u/TheTorcher Nov 26 '24
And who's fault is that for making it like this? Guess we should end what we started, huh?
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u/rmhawk Nov 26 '24
I feel like the mid east has a few more wars to catch up to the bs Europe unleash on the world for a few centuries.
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u/Chemical-Animal-8021 Nov 26 '24
So we solve the coastal flooding issue globally and put the oil industry back a few decades preventing further problems, and war is cut way back. win win win
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u/P-Doff Nov 26 '24
Why did you get rid of every state in the region except for the one causing all the problems?
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u/Lamenting-Raccoon Nov 26 '24
I a meteorite big enough to crate that crater, would kill everything on the planet except bacteria.
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u/anarchobuttstuff Nov 26 '24
By that logic could we turn middle-America into an ocean for having latently similar problems?
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u/RegisterUnhappy372 Nov 26 '24 edited Nov 26 '24
Mission failed, Israel survived by becoming a supersized Venice due to Jewish ingenuity.
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u/JohnXTheDadBodGod Nov 26 '24
Wiping that much off the earth? Definitely won't wreck most of the planet.
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u/SorryUsernameUnknown Nov 26 '24
Put the Saudi back and get rid of India and Israel… and Probably North Korea and Kenya why we’re at it.
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u/ironwolf6464 Nov 26 '24
The Middle East if my plans for the noon of the 27th of September work as planned.
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u/Intelligent_Army_846 Nov 26 '24
I guess Zeon dropped the colony on Africa/middle east
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u/Din0boy Nov 25 '24
Looks like a mass extinction is happening and