Only because of two reasons: first, y'all just didn't have the chance that we Westerners did, including ready access to the open seas. Second, y'all had Turks and other infidels, and, above all, Jews, to beat up on, kill, and steal from. You didn't even give that up for so much as a YEAR after V-E! So, get your porcine pink face out of my face, get lost and STAY there!!