Tag: Louis Teo
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Tyranny as Necessity: Syria’s social immolation for regime preservation
Through fomenting racial and religious hatred, Bashar al Assad engineered a situation wherein all minorities would be forced to support him for fear of retribution from the majority Sunni Arab population, thus allowing him to build a broad coalition of minority sects willing to die for him to protect their own people. Along the way,…
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Identity as Adversary: Russia as Anti West
In an effort to compensate for its material deficiencies, Russia has constructed an ideology and national identity structured around opposition to a perceived West. This has allowed it to construct otherwise unlikely alliances with state actors and become ideological bedfellows with populist nationalists and anarcho-communists, in exchange for limiting its diplomatic flexibility and forcing it…
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