Monarchies haven't fared well in recent decades and some have ended very badly.
Among those that ended badly are those that got their nations into big spats. Anyone recall Kaiser Wilhelm II, for example? Took his country into war in support of the Hapsburg's. He didn't have to do that, but it ended up getting him retired to Holland. What about the Hapsburg's, who felt that they had to pick that fight as their archduke was gunned down by a pathetic?
Or what about Czar Nicholas II. Nicky was an absolute autocrat, and took his nation into World War One, which resulted in the Romanov's falling and his entire immediate family getting gunned down.
This past week, the Saudi's executed a prominent Sunni cleric. The Saudis are Sunni Arabs and allied with Wannabism. The Iranians are Persian Shiias. The didn't like each other to start with.
What on earth were the Saudis thinking?
Now protests in Iran have broken out and diplomatic relations have been severed.
Last week, at a New Year's Party, I heard form somebody employed in the oil industry, as a joke (he was not serious), what we need is a war.
Well, we may be getting one.
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