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January 19, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9144
Russian Journalist Bavyrin: Russian Grain Export Controls Could Trigger A New Arab Spring As They Triggered The Original Outburst In 2011
January 19, 2021
Russian journalist Dmitry Bavyrin writing in Vz.ru scoffs at both naïve Western views that the Arab Spring was triggered by a thirst for democracy but also at the pro-regime narrative that Western intelligence agencies, seeking to impose more supine regimes were behind the unrest. He claims that Russia inadvertently caused the outburst by withholding grain for export thus driving up bread prices. As Russia, recently imposed similar controls to lower prices within Russia,[1] Middle Eastern countries like Egypt that have seen their tourism industry crushed by the coronavirus are ripe for a renewed outburst. The Middle East, burdened by overpopulation and endemic food crises, will always be the planet s tinderbox.
Arab Spring ten years later
Posted : 2020-12-22 16:30 By Shlomo Ben-Ami
TEL AVIV ― When the struggling street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, Dec. 17, 2010, he could not possibly have imagined how consequential his desperate protest would be. By sparking a wave of civil unrest across the Arab world, he touched off the region s most profound transformation since decolonization.
First, Tunisia s Jasmine Revolution erupted, leading to the ouster of the country s longtime president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Protests quickly engulfed other Arab countries, and more autocrats ― namely, Egypt s Hosni Mubarak, Libya s Moammar Gadhafi, and Yemen s Ali Abdullah Saleh ― were toppled.
When the struggling street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on 17 December 2010, he could not possibly have imagined how consequential his desperate protest would be. By sparking a wave of civil unrest across the Arab world, he touched off the region’s most profound transformation since decolonisation.
First, Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution erupted, leading to the ouster of the country’s longtime president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Protests quickly engulfed other Arab countries, and more autocrats namely, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, and Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh were toppled.
In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad managed to hold onto power at the cost of plunging his country into a brutal civil war that has killed more than half a million people, forced millions to flee the country and left millions more internally displaced. The conflict returned Syria to the Russian fold, and turned its territory into an Iranian-Israe
The Arab Spring Ten Years Later by Shlomo Ben-Ami
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