The scramble for Syria

[htpcl]

O, hail, my fellow bored American Idol fans curious peeps who are so utterly concerned about peace and justice in the world! Realpolitik can be a real biach, I say. The biachiest biach of them all, actually. So here are a couple of fancy maps with many colors that look kinda realpolitik-ey.

Comments

[the_rukh]

The people of Syria don't actually win if nothing happens either.

[geezer_also]

Somehow the people never seem to win.

[the_rukh]

There's ways the people can win, but in this situation, there's not much chance of that. If it wasn't a despotic country, a nationally owned gas corp who put the profits from selling the company's resources off back in to social improvement would make the people win.

[yes_justice]

You mean, if America doesn't send missiles over?

[the_rukh]

America sending missles over or not isn't really going to impact the people greatly, and it's not really going to impact the regime in a huge way either. Might make some Boeing stock go up though.

[htpcl]

Depends if those missiles kill people. That would seem like quite an impact.

[the_rukh]

I doubt it would be a blip in their usual rate.