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I believe the poster was referring to England and France being party to a secret agreement to partition the Ottoman Empire after World War I, despite overtly ba
by JamesLeonis 8y ago
I believe the poster was referring to England and France being party to a secret agreement to partition the Ottoman Empire after World War I, despite overtly backing Arab revolt with promises of independence.
- s3m4j 8y agoThat was what I was referring to indeed. Our borders in Europe have also been drawn up "artificially" (borders as a concept did not exist until relatively recently anyway), but there's quite a difference between two foreign countries imposing themselves and europeeans conflicts settling their own borders.
- knz 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement for those interested.