@Vera44506642@AltOpinions99 Itโs a sort of inverse orientalism where westerners stereotype middle easterners, not as a means of reproducing western hegemony, but rather to justify the perceived โanti-imperialistโ bourgeois class in anti-western regimes
Islam and Marxism are not mutually exclusive. Western conceptions of Marxism are just that, western conceptions. South Yemen was explicitly Marxist and Muslim, Islam was the official state religion in the SY constitution.
@joelover123__ Them converting parts of the regular army into irregulars which formented part of the insurgency which happened later was a genuine strat
@ProductOfLabor They try to present this as some sophosticated historical documentary and the first speaker is a boomer skinhead with a teardrop tattoo