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If you really want to see an explanation of the Middle East, look at the way France and the UK divided up the region in the wake of WW1, and then abdicated thei
by douche 11y ago
If you really want to see an explanation of the Middle East, look at the way France and the UK divided up the region in the wake of WW1, and then abdicated their responsibilities after WW2.
- Tloewald 11y agoYeah we've all watched Lawrence of Arabia.
- douche 11y agoI was thinking more about Leon Uris' Exodus. Most of the faults of colonialism seem to come from how poorly the handoff between the imperial powers and the local population went. It's an interesting dynamic, since almost all of the traditional colonial powers were a shell of themselves by 1945, while the two ascendant powers were the USA and USSR, who really hadn't been involved in the Victorian era colonial land-grabs, at least to the extent that the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and even Italy were.