Please at least have a cursory glance of the history of any of these countries from around WW1 to the present day instead of just assuming things magically came

Please at least have a cursory glance of the history of any of these countries from around WW1 to the present day instead of just assuming things magically came to be the way they were 6 hours before the first gulf war. States are _not_ abstract entities that just sort of float around existing at geographic locations