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    Appreciated. Seems like a well researched book, but ... Archived Message

    Posted by Tomski on May 3, 2019, 2:10 pm, in reply to "AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain"

    Stevenson does make a point:

    The report’s authors were profoundly negative about the region’s future, predicting ‘large-scale violence, civil wars, authority vacuums and humanitarian crises persisting for many years’. The causes, in the authors’ view, were ‘entrenched elites’ and ‘low oil prices’. They didn’t mention that maintenance of both these things is US policy.

    Cheers

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