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That's not true at all. Countries are created lots of different ways: merging other countries, splitting them, weird situations like Israel etc.

• yieldcrv 3y ago
  “the UN voted our existence in, so its legit!” “the UN voted about this other self governing region with overlapping boundaries as ours! since when is that a country, here’s an old map! no not that map, this one that I like! My argument also requires me to pretend that new national identities haven't come into existence over the last 75 years anywhere else either!”
  • readthenotes1 3y ago
    Nah. The British beat the ottomans fair and square* and took the land over. The they were obligated by previous agreement to form Israel. *Sure they had help
    • defrost 3y ago
      Started off with a four mile light horse charge with rifles slung and bayonets in hand across open ground into the machine gun nests at Beersheba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917) https://www.awmlondon.gov.au/battles/beersheba https://www.awmlondon.gov.au/battles/beersheba https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-charge-of-the-4th-light-horse-brigade-at-beersheba https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-charge-of-the-4th-l... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9kN6AHX37E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9kN6AHX37E