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> Btw things like isis are a direct consequence of actions taken by the English colonialists when they created artificial boundaries

The Turks were the ones that conquered all those completely unrelated people in the first place. The British inherited their problem after World War I. But go on, I love this game of “brown people can’t have moral agency.”




Yes, the Turks also put their hands in the boiling pot, but only the British were arrogant enough to try to turn these regions into countries with neat, straight borders and also with western style governments. Which destroyed local alliances and created a massive power vacuum when the empire fell. Then, the us and Russia had a go of it, which certainly didn’t calm the situation.

But go on.


great, now do versailles.

or brest-litovsk.

a bad peace treaty is not an excuse for barbarism.




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