11-14-2018, 12:05 PM
World War II is a Crisis Era for Iraq and Iran, where short-lived pro-Axis governments provoked British and Soviet invasions to topple such governments. Syria was a combat zone between the Free French and Vichy, and got its independence in 1944. Syria is in , and Iraq may still be in Crisis Eras. Go figure on Iran. For Israel, the Crisis Era that for many Israelis includes the worst Crisis that any people could ever endure (the Holocaust) ended in 1948 with the partition of Palestine. The Intifada looks like a Crisis to me.
Turkey had a huge Crisis early with World War I (the Armenian holocaust would have never been possible except in a Crisis Era) that included after the War itself invasions by the Allies, the dissolution of Turkish rule south of the current Turkish-Syrian and Turkish-Iraqi border, and a veritable civil war that replaced the Ottoman Empire with a secular republic. Turkey was not a major participant in World War II, but could have easily been one.
Libya? The Libyan Civil War looks like a Crisis Era. It came roughly seventy years after the Allies and Axis Powers fought over Libyan terrain.
I am tempted to believe that the Arab Spring is Crisis or 1T depending upon the national history.
Turkey had a huge Crisis early with World War I (the Armenian holocaust would have never been possible except in a Crisis Era) that included after the War itself invasions by the Allies, the dissolution of Turkish rule south of the current Turkish-Syrian and Turkish-Iraqi border, and a veritable civil war that replaced the Ottoman Empire with a secular republic. Turkey was not a major participant in World War II, but could have easily been one.
Libya? The Libyan Civil War looks like a Crisis Era. It came roughly seventy years after the Allies and Axis Powers fought over Libyan terrain.
I am tempted to believe that the Arab Spring is Crisis or 1T depending upon the national history.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.