Yes, we are all tired of western imperialism and hypocrisy, no one feels sorry for the west. We can all agree on that. But fighting it out in a foreign country, dropping bombs on civilians all over the Middle East, will not solve anything (except for the population problem but in a very violent way).
Even if Syria is degraded by ecosystem overuse that is no reason for bombing the country. Also there are ways to restore degraded soils, something that is now tried in Lebanon (http://ecoplantmed.eu/). So investing, sharing knowledge and resources, with locals on the ground regarding large-scale ecosystem restoration could make parts of the country livable again, but that would require and end to the fighting and supply of weaponry. Shouldnt we try to help people be able to live in the Middle East instead of forcing them to flee into other countries or trying to build walls to keep them out? I dont know what is realistic or not at this point, everything is so messed up, but surely there must be smarter ways of handling the situation that bombing the entire region (which the US is famous for doing)?
I doubt you could do much normal agicultural restoration unless the drought ended, though you might have ennough to try some hydroponics. I'm not sure there's even enough water though for drinking water for that population size.
Far as the bomb dropping goes, that's the outcome from a society in breakdown spawning many different factions and the internal violence starts to spread across borders. The big powers then drop in with more weapons supporting one faction or another as a proxy to try and get control of the situation. When this doesn't do the trick, then they bring on the Air Support.
Far as Mother Russia is concerned, they don't want the ground violence crossing over their southern border, so Vlad the Impaler is trying to contain it to Syria. Turkey is overwhelmed with refugees itself, and factionalization and civil war is likely there any day.
Why do these places break down in this way? Well, besides the climate and overpopulation problem, Economics and Energy. When these countries had oil to export, they were able to get copius money from the Western banks based on their oil reserves to run their country. Once they don't have exportable oil, the money flow stops.
Western Imperialist policy has always been about trying to access the available energy in MENA. The goal at the moment is to try and keep what is left flowing out of Saudi Arabia and Iran. If they can keep the violence contained to Syria, this will last a bit longer. Inevitably though, it will metastcize and then the oil flow stops.
When that occurs, the societies currently still running will begin to factionalize as well, and the civil wars will come to Europe and jump the pond to the FSoA as well.
Eventually the fuel to put the bombers up in the air will run out, and then the fighting will be all mano a mano on the ground with guns until the supply of bullets runs out. Then it will be done with Trebuchets and Atl-Atls until the population drops sufficently for the land it is located on to support that population, with quite a bit of undershoot likely there.
The only question here is one of timelines, how long it will take to play out. WAG from me is 10-20 years.
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