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| Spengler: The new 30 years war |
| 2014-08-12 |
| ...This new Thirty Years War has its origins in a demographic peak and an economic trough. There are nearly 30 million young men aged 15 to 24 in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran, a bulge generation produced by pre-modern fertility rates that prevailed a generation ago. But the region’s economies cannot support them. Syria does not have enough water to support an agricultural population, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of farmers into tent cities preceded its civil war. The West mistook the death spasms of a civilization for an “Arab Spring,” and its blunders channeled the youth bulge into a regional war. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Whatever they say about Tamerlane, he knew how to build pyramids. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-12 18:51 |
| #3 Magdeburg was a 'one of'. Check up on the number of cities sacked and razed by Tamerlane (Muslim), who was indiscriminate in whether those feeling his wrath were non-Muslim or not. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-08-12 17:36 |
| #2 The original Thirty Years War had Magdeburg as its model atrocity / mass murder. This time around will it be Baghdad, or Riyadh, or Teheran, or ?? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-12 15:48 |
| #1 Solution? Keep them fenced in, they will happily kill each other over which version of Islam they profess. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-12 15:28 |