Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

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I think that is a little unfair, most of those disputes have a social genesis older the the USA!

Western societies being relatively new think of family as a house full of people, in Iran or Iraq "A Family or Clan" can in effect be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individuals. More than a Sicilian family, I suppose when you have a history of polygamy / polygyny it is a lot easier to have huge lists of relatives even without political alliances!

If you have a look at the activities of the Anglo American oil companies , their associations with the Moslem Brotherhood (among others), the involvement of British intelligence and later the CIA, starting after WW1 and going on until the present day  you will be surprised, maybe even shocked. I won't go into it on here as it's a long and totuous tale, but it's fascinating and worth a bit of your time.