Comments by "jeppen" (@jesan733) on "The Middle East, After America || Peter Zeihan" video.

What if your leftist university studies (at best) hasn't given you an accurate representation of events? The Shah was already there, and keeping him in power was preserving the constitution of Iran. He was a progressive modernizer, giving women equal rights, did land reforms and much more.
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@GotGracexxxxx I know a lot about operation Ajax already, but thanks. Maybe you should go and read more broadly on the full context and what happened during the reign of the shah, and not just some one-sided account designed to say "western powers bad, mmmkay"?
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@KevinLyda Australia's is a bit different, I think its light vehicle fleet consumption is less than a third of its liquid hydrocarbon consumption, with e.g. lots of aviation, shipping, mining and heavy transport making up the rest.
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@dreambuffer fair enough, but counterfactuals are very difficult and it's not that clear that Mossadeq was that democratic either. What we know is that losers can't write history and the most crucial difference between e.g. Atatürk and the Shah may just be that the latter happened to be overthrown.
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@GotGracexxxxx ah, so you're cool and don't really care, but I'm incredibly invested? Ok, nice. I'm finding the "oh, we supported someone not perfect" criticism vacuous and even dangerous, that's all. We won't find perfection and we can't expect liberal democracies to just appear and self-sustain out of thin air from entrenched rent-seeking power structures while everybody agrees and sing kumbaya.
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Create coal liquefaction plants.
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