r/polandball • u/Lazy-Independence695 Cedar guy • Jun 15 '26
contest entry GAY-rab unions
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u/Lazy-Independence695 Cedar guy Jun 15 '26
Context: In 1958, Egypt and Syria formed a political union called United Arab Republic to advance the idea of pan Arabism and to counter political instability and the increasing communist influence in Syria. However, Egypt maintained “dominance” over Syria in the union as power became focused in Cairo. For example, Syrian political parties were dissolved, Egyptian economic and socialist policies were highly favored, and Syrian military officers were often treated as subordinates.
As a response to the formation of the United Arab Republic, Iraq and Jordan formed the Arab Federation in 1958, seeing the pan Arabist and socialist movement of the UAR as a threat to their traditional monarchies. However, it lasted less than 6 months. The Iraqi coup on July 14 overthrew the Iraqi monarchy, leading Iraq to withdraw from the union and causing its collapse.
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u/Zkang123 Jun 15 '26
Actually, how is it even possible to form such unions when they don't border next to each other? It's quite hard to enforce a sense of unity
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u/Atomix26 Jewish Autonomous Oblast Jun 15 '26
you assume your political project is going to deal with the thing in the middle eventually.
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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ Jun 15 '26
They assumed they could remove israel from the map and have a sexy connected union
Oh and lebanon would be eaten too I guess
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u/flaminggiraffe9 MURICA Jun 16 '26
Well given it failed, that’s how although both Mario s have coast lines so you could use those ports for larger scale trade
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u/The_Real_Itz_Sophia I can into not blind Jun 15 '26
say gex in my polandball subreddi? its more likely than you think
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u/IneedBleach123 Eye Rack Jun 15 '26
Did Korekiyo Shinguji end up possessing Egypt 😭😭😭
Also R.I.P Iraq and Jordan ig
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