Friendly reminder that the best model for ISIS is the French Revolution, both in that people in other countries found it hard to...
Friendly reminder that the best model for ISIS is the French Revolution, both in that people in other countries found it hard to look past the terror and decapitations and that it’s really about replacing a mishmash of local systems of postfeudal personal rule with a coherent modern state rooted in popular identity.
Now, wasn’t that the turn Egypt and (LOL) Syria made after Suez?
Yes, but not at a scale that mattered.