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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 258: Imminent Song
metroid composite
01/11/20 11:12:28 AM
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LordoftheMorons posted...
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1215834911015428096?s=21

god hes such a fucking piece of shit
Okay, hold on, I have to correct one thing there. "They've been fighting over this border for a thousand years".

That whole region (both sides of the border) was controlled by the Ottoman Empire continuously from 1520-1914. There was no border. None.

Here's the map in 1520:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_Ottoman_Empire#/media/File:Territorial_changes_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_1520.jpg

Here's the map in 1913 (right before WWI)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_Ottoman_Empire#/media/File:Territorial_changes_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_1913.jpg

The Ottaman Empire was defeated during World War 1 (and broken into pieces by France and Britain...not into sensible countries based on shared languages, but literally into regions where France wanted oil fields (basically Syria) and regions where Britain wanted to expand trains (basically Iraq)). This is why you have ethnic groups like the Kurds with their own language just spread across a couple countries, because the borders were not chosen to make sense for the people living there, they were chosen because the British and French empires wanted to make more $$$$. (This is actually one of the times in history America was clearly the good guy--America at the end of WWI was arguing that people in the middle east should govern themselves, and Britain and France popped on their monocles, busted out their evil villain laughs "ohohoho, govern themselves? Nonsense. Look at all this money we can make!!!" And they outvoted America).

So...yeah, it's not a thousand years, it's like...92 years.

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