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@per_sonne @tbortels @Remittancegirl There's one other avenue, as happened in the Levant and Asia: by backing the Ba'ath (initially pan-Arabists, decaying into fascist dictatorships) and the Shah of Iran against the communists, all left-wing opposition was smashed … leaving the only avenue for dissent via the Islamic clergy.

Hence Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, etc etc.

Neofascism is just the west's equivalent of islamism, in this frame.