Why the Middle East is undeveloped?

[Kamal900]

Just mere luck: they have oil. As soon as the dark elite decides to use another means of fuel they'll become as poor and miserable as their neighbors.

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No. Oil and Gas here only make around less than 30% of the total GDP in 2017:
https://u.ae/en/about-the-uae/economy#:~:text=The policy of economic diversification,its economic dependence on hydrocarbons.

And the nuclear plants here are going to be opened early next year which will account 25% of the electrical needs of the country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka...ar_power_plant

[Halgurd]

1) Some Middle Eastern states are amongst the most developed in the world.

2) Islam is out of the question. The downfall of countries like Syria and Iraq is not due to Islam, but rather due to poisonous forms of nationalism (Baathism). However, certain extremist elements (Salafists) were able to take advantage of the turmoil and as a result they attracted a lot of young youth into their ranks. In times of distress, people turn to religion.

3) The borders drawn up in the aftermath of WW1 were very artificial and nonsensical. I do not know what the British and French were hoping to achieve by grouping dozens of different ethnic and religious groups into single states. Iraq is a very good example of what the result of that is. We have 2 separate governments (a Kurdish and central gov) who are unable to agree on anything.

Things will only get worst in coming years. In the Middle East there are currently 3 different alliances

A Turkey led alliance which is focusing on expansionism and increasing their military power. Turkey has bases in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Cyprus.
A Saudi-Libya-Egypt led alliance, which is currently focusing on stopping the Turkish expansion in Libya.
An Iran led alliance, where Iran has a very powerful hegemony over Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.

[Marmara]

Middle east is cradle of human civilization (Egypt, Mesopotamia) so i don't think they are racially inferior, the problem is this satanic death cult called islam which destroyed this complete region, and most MENA peoples are totally brainwashed by that so it makes them dumb and violent. ME would be million times more developed and richer without islam.

Muslims used to be more advanced than Christians.

[chinshen]

Moron. Nabateans and the kingdom of Araba were Arabs, and I had posted them countless times here in this thread:
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...he-Middle-East

The Nabateans used the Aramaic language for their administration and official purposes, yes, but that Aramaic language has a heavy Arabic substrate, and the Nabateans themselves were Arabic-speaking nomadic tribe native to Jordan, and the Nabatean Arabic dialect(s) is very close to the dialects of the Safaitic and Hismaic peoples who were old-Arabic speaking Arabs as well:


One of Hismaic long inscriptions written 2,000 years ago which I fully understand:
https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1083968864726278145

One of Safaitic inscriptions invoking the Arab endonym:
https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1271456424376373248

Nice to meet you too. Of course the only moron here is you since you start insulting others who don't agree with you.
Everyone knows that Arabic is heavily derived from ancient Aramaic for obvious reasons.
So for sure there will be some words that resemble each other, but that does not mean any time you see an ancient artifact written in different languages with writing that you might think that you understand a word or two that it was created by Arabs.
Keep in mind also that those couple of words might not actually mean the same as you might think it means in its original language.
You are too quick to claim and appropriate many ancient achievements as Arabic without any merits.

[Trouble]

honestly west asia isnt that bad in development

Turkey, Iran, gulf area (except for yemen) are doing fairly decent.. gulf region especially is on par with western countries. Iraq, Palestine, and Syria seem to be doing the worst and we all know why lol. Turkey and Iran are the most populous countries in west asia anyways.

Yemen isn't part of the gulf area and it's not considered a Gulf Arab country. It has no coastline there and most importantly it doesn't have oil.

[Universe]

Middle east is cradle of human civilization (Egypt, Mesopotamia) so i don't think they are racially inferior, the problem is this satanic death cult called islam which destroyed this complete region, and most MENA peoples are totally brainwashed by that so it makes them dumb and violent. ME would be million times more developed and richer without islam.

Why aren't Gypsies and SSAs wealthy despite being Christian? I find religion overrated in that regard.

[Blondie]

Why aren't Gypsies and SSAs wealthy despite being Christian? I find religion overrated in that regard.

Because they are racially inferior.

[PaleoEuropean]

Yemen isn't part of the gulf area and it's not considered a Gulf Arab country. It has no coastline there and most importantly it doesn't have oil.

Yemen has a huge coastline and a lot of oil also; most Gulf Arabs descend from Yemenites. Very ignorant statement.

[PaleoEuropean]

The Middle East lacks essential resources like timber and the resources it does have historically has required foreign companies to extract. There are developed places in the middle east and places now considered undeveloped weren't that way always. Iraq and Syria were both fairly developed countries before their turmoils.

[PaleoEuropean]

1) Some Middle Eastern states are amongst the most developed in the world.

2) Islam is out of the question. The downfall of countries like Syria and Iraq is not due to Islam, but rather due to poisonous forms of nationalism (Baathism). However, certain extremist elements (Salafists) were able to take advantage of the turmoil and as a result they attracted a lot of young youth into their ranks. In times of distress, people turn to religion.

3) The borders drawn up in the aftermath of WW1 were very artificial and nonsensical. I do not know what the British and French were hoping to achieve by grouping dozens of different ethnic and religious groups into single states. Iraq is a very good example of what the result of that is. We have 2 separate governments (a Kurdish and central gov) who are unable to agree on anything.

Things will only get worst in coming years. In the Middle East there are currently 3 different alliances

A Turkey led alliance which is focusing on expansionism and increasing their military power. Turkey has bases in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Cyprus.
A Saudi-Libya-Egypt led alliance, which is currently focusing on stopping the Turkish expansion in Libya.
An Iran led alliance, where Iran has a very powerful hegemony over Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.

Baathism isn't a problem, the problem is the Nazi and Soviet influence on Baathism causing inherent corruption and placement of officials based on party and dictator loyalty. Sectarianism is not a result of secularism. It is a result of secularism being used to subdue rather than to coexist.