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>samefag, Successful Revolutions come down to the difference between strong and weak state
Also look at Syria again here. Weak, family-run criminal/mafia state. I think there's a whole trend underway towards a kind of business Islam that you also see in Saudi Arabia and the UAE which have been more successful. It was impossible to do business in Syria because you had to kick up to the next guy. You also had something play out like in Iran in the late 70s where a lot of people had been drained from the countryside into the cities and they went over to the rebels.

I suppose that also leads to one more point about leftists (or some leftists) who threw in with Assad. They weren't the only ones who did that, he had his loyalists. But their dogmatic view of historical change (I think it might come from Lenin) couldn't allow them to "see" what was actually happening in the real world. Or that because the revolutionaries were Islamists and not materialists they couldn't be revolutionary by definition according to the ideology. But in fact it was economic necessity that made a revolution possible if not inevitable. People hunt and around and choose the ideologies that they find suitable for their own societies.

To make it /k/, I thought this Saudi military industries ad was funny:
https://youtu.be/F1MS02EtDN4