“It turns out that the ruling Baath party is at fault for everything. During the 1960s, the party decided to turn Syria into a grain-exporting state. They viewed it as a victory of the Syrian agrarian revolution. For that reason, they forced the farmers to shift from herding, on semi-arid land, to growing grain. The regime turned a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of wells that were dug in order to water the grain. Any economist who dared to speak out against this policy was jailed.”
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Uhhh, millenialism aside, we see the usual long-range ecological disasters of the command economy.
Just like the ecocide of the old USSR and China.
I guess the old “hate and kill the Jews” industry isn’t too profitable either.
Not long ago we were told there were tens of thousands of Iraqis who fled to Syria.
Haven't heard much about the Euphrates River drying up in Iraq.
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