Empire needs rich clients and poor dependents. Empire needs sectarian fear. Empire needs borders that split one people into ten.
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You’re describing the symptom, not the structure.
Of course the Arab world isn’t "one thing."
Neither was Vietnam.
We had North and South.
We had Buddhists, Catholics, Cao Đài, Hòa Hảo, and even Hindu and Muslim communities.
We had regional identities so strong that the French carved us into three separate "countries" to keep us apart.
We had tribes, languages, rivalries, wounds, and histories of infighting older than most Arab states today.
And on top of that, we had France and then the United States doing exactly what you described:
Exploiting the poor, bribing the rich, weaponizing sects, engineering divisions, plundering resources, and ensuring unity was impossible.
You’re not describing why unity can’t happen.
You’re describing why unity must happen.
Because fragmentation is not an inherent Arab trait.
It is the design of empire.
Empire needs rich clients and poor dependents.
Empire needs sectarian fear.
Empire needs borders that split one people into ten.
Empire needs governments that cannot stand without foreign permission.
Vietnam was the same laboratory.
Cut in half.
Turned inward.
Trained to mistrust itself.
But division only lasts as long as people accept it.
The day Vietnam decided humiliation was worse than death, the divisions burned away.
The rich fled.
The poor fought.
The sects dissolved.
The tribes aligned.
And the most advanced military on earth fell to a country that had nothing but will.
So yes, the Arab world is divided.
Yes, it is unequal.
Yes, it is full of borders and sects and scars.
But that’s not a reason to wait.
That’s the proof that waiting is exactly what empire wants.
The question isn’t whether the region is diverse.
The question is whether it will allow that diversity to remain a weapon in someone else’s hands.
Because unity is not the absence of differences.
Unity is the decision to stop letting those differences be manufactured into chains.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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