Islamic State Leads Mideast Into Warlord Era as Nations Dissolve -- Glen Carey, Bloomberg
The Middle East may be sliding toward a warlord era, with nation-states increasingly struggling to control all their territory and millions living under the rule of emergent local chiefs and movements.
Armed irregular forces hold effective power over growing areas of Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya where central government authority barely reaches. Motivated by religious ideology or regional separatism, they have grabbed oil facilities and weapons, imposed taxes or changed school curriculums, and fought each other as well as national armies.
“It is almost like the whole regional order that was built in the 20th century is collapsing,” Nadim Shehadi, associate fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House in London, said in an interview. “Non-state actors are filling the vacuum.”
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My Comment: We see this fracturing in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen .... and this is a trend that is definitely escalating. Think of a fractured Lebanon but on a bigger scale .... correction .... much bigger scale.
This is where Publius is very right with the Thirty Years War prediction.
ReplyDeleteYup .... his prediction is spot on.
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