All oil rich arab monarchies are turned into protectorates of western powers after ww2.Huge NATO military presence all over persian gulf to ensure local sheikhs cannot interfere ever in flow of oil.What PODs could prevent the oil shortages and things like that?
he says that political leaders set up the political system to get the economic outcomes they want.
I watched a series of lectures by a Scottish academic and he says that political leaders set up the political system to get the economic outcomes they want. After WW2 it was thought that unemployment was the cause of the troubles of the 30s so they set up the system to provide full employment, however any system has bugs and after about 30 years these bugs are so bad that the system doesn't work.
So basically the malaise of the 70s is the result of the bugs in the political-economic system set up 30 years earlier making the system unworkable.
I thought that was a reasonable explanation, especially in the context of current day political turmoil.
Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Trucial States (today UAE) and Oman were British colonies or protectorates until 1960s-1970sAll oil rich arab monarchies are turned into protectorates of western powers after ww2.Huge NATO military presence all over persian gulf to ensure local sheikhs cannot interfere ever in flow of oil.
All oil rich arab monarchies are turned into protectorates of western powers after ww2.Huge NATO military presence all over persian gulf to ensure local sheikhs cannot interfere ever in flow of oil.
Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Trucial States (today UAE) and Oman were British colonies or protectorates until 1960s-1970s
Yes But not saudi Arabia , if all the qatif areas had been kept separate from hijaz and medina/ makkah that would have been beneficial to western interestsKuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Trucial States (today UAE) and Oman were British colonies or protectorates until 1960s-1970s
he would have been even less likely than the mullahs to work with the westA little late but no Iranian Revolution?
EDIT: Or just keep Mosaddegh in power?
The Vietnam War either ends in a US victory (such a victory would have to happen before the anti-war movement gains traction) or full-blown US involvement in the war doesn't happen at all
I watched a series of lectures by a Scottish academic and he says that political leaders set up the political system to get the economic outcomes they want. After WW2 it was thought that unemployment was the cause of the troubles of the 30s so they set up the system to provide full employment, however any system has bugs and after about 30 years these bugs are so bad that the system doesn't work.
So basically the malaise of the 70s is the result of the bugs in the political-economic system set up 30 years earlier making the system unworkable.
I thought that was a reasonable explanation, especially in the context of current day political turmoil.