Lebanon: Failed Narco-Terrorist State?
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The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East
Lebanon served as the first line of defence, especially since it is facing cyprus. The ottomans were always trying to play these religious minorities and sectarian minorities against each other. I so basically it was a mix of many religious minorities fighting each other for the control of these beautiful mountain ranges and mountain passes. It was a prime real estate that need to be controlled. And i think it is important to really understand that in a patrimonial, aristocratic, hierarchical empire like the ottoman, political instability and a military jostling for power between different sort of warlords and their retainers was the ottoman orm of politics. So it was perfectly
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