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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

There's a whole lot there, but with the most broad strokes imaginable: Imperialism and the Cold War, both of which are great causes of resentment.

Secular democracies in the arab world made economic ties with the USSR during the cold war, which was a bad time.