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Despots of the Messpot: Arab Winter Alternate Timeline
The period that began in 2011 initially known as Arab Spring, but more commonly today referred to as Arab Winter, will forever be looked at as a time of great frustration and failure. A time when he Arab people’s popular democratic outbursts were cut short for the sake of status quo and stability. Often compared with the European Revolutions of 1848 the Arab uprisings have come to be seen as a time of great societal and cultural change but of little political achievement. Many look back on this time have asked many questions: Why were these uprisings defeated? Why were despots able to maintain power? Where was the West? What went wrong?