[Czech_Occidentalist]

If there’s any lesson to come out of the Middle East, it’s that secular dictators, however horrid, are usually preferable to Islamic theocracies when it comes to ruling Arab Muslims.

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I think moderate monarchies, such as Jordan or Morocco, are even better than secular dictatorships. The monarchs are usually pro-Western, the dictators are usually pro-Russian (pro-Soviet in the past).

[elcid1970]

You’re right, but what does that leave us? Morocco, Jordan, and the Emirates. Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Iran were moderate monarchies once.