That's the best thing to throw in the faces of anti-BDS libs. Most of the time they will say "That's different." They are always unable to effectively answer the obvious follow-up of "why?"
Sometimes I feel like we’re in the skibidi dop dop dop dop yes yes yes portion of history
I am curious, why didn't the West go as hard defending SA and their regional allies as much as Israel? England actually told Rhodesia to cool it a bit, they didn't get a fraction of the aid Israel has gotten in a year.
I guess Southern Africa is less geopolitical important?
I guess Southern Africa is less geopolitical important?
Yes, I'll go over a couple reasons. Resources: SA and neighbors have gold + gems, luxury items which the US has domestic supply of. Meanwhile the middle east is filled with oil, which the US has a domestic supply of, but not enough to satisfy demand.
Location, SA and neighbors are next to the Cape of good hope which is a Maritime shipping route, but it is superseded by the Suez, and they are far away from the imperial core. Meanwhile the ME has the Suez, and is right next to europe . In particular, Syria and Iraq threaten Turkey's Southern border which would stretch their lines in case of Soviet invasion.
Domestic reaction: the USA has a sizable black population, a number of which were already radicalized into socialist thought. Supporting SA could further radicalize them and cause issues. Meanwhile the West has neither a large amount of Muslims or Arabs, so who cares about alienating them.
I think part of it too is that the ideological apparatus to do what we're doing now wasn't fully formed yet. I mean you've got Reagan telling Israel to cool it in the past, I can't imagine that happening now.
The west didn't create SA from the ground up to use as a geopolitical tool, I'm sure they found them useful but not on the same level
Unless I'm wrong and they did, I don't know a huge amount about SA beyond that the Boer wars are a thing and white people be doin white people shit
Oh thank fuck thw date is 1986 😭
I was not prepared to be thrown that curve ball
