Sheiks or Sayyied had dual powers—both as spiritual leaders and as landlords. They worked as a” psychiatrist” for the poor, not charging by the hour but accepting donations. However they fooled poor people into thinking that material wealth was useless to them. However, paradoxically, it was acceptable to receive donations. They stole from the people and lived very well. Both landlords and Sheiks or Sayyied married the most beautiful women among the population and they also had extra-marital affairs. They enjoyed life for generations until the population became educated and a system of politics came into existence; then that system disappeared. But then these same people, because they had a better education than average, took over politics and continued their tradition of being rulers of the people.
If you investigate the leaders of those countries, 99 percent come from those two groups above. They moved to the cities and/or had an education in western countries, but they never betrayed their own ancestor’s goals. They lied and cheated the people by controlling them any way they could in order to live a better life than their constituents. They are therefore allied by nature with leaders of the old western Imperialist nations.
Old Western Imperialist leaders do not care about the populations in the eastern parts of the world. They are only there to steal raw materials. They do not have time to read even one page of a document about their own people. Why would anyone expect them to read about the world and why should they waste their luxury time reading and learning about that region. Do not ask, do not tell; always winning and winning; rob the foreigners and run the country. As long as their own populations are well off at home, and they continue to be re-elected, they do not care about peoples in other regions of the world who are suffering because of unjust policies of the old western Imperialists.