I want to create a Greater Persian Empire that includes Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This piece of paper limits my creative freedom.
There’s 300million people and 7 million km². I’d give everyone 20m² and an AK (making sure to split up families as much as possible). Surely nothing will go wrong with this wholely equitable division of land!
Don’t miss your chance to embed pieces of countries into one another. Go wild, let’s have nested enclaves several layers deep!
You mean like the Dutch-Belgian border
Make it worse by enveloping the country that envelopes you that you are enveloping, a bit like this 🎯
Reminded me of this robot chicken skit
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It wasn’t with no regard. They were deliberately giving minorities power over majorities and splitting ethnic groups with borders to fuel conflicts.
Yeah, I think folks here are not giving them enough credit. It wasn’t just some random dude drawing lines for no reason.
The purpose of a lot of what Britain was doing was to prevent unification into a new Ottoman Empire successor. They intended the internal conflict in the region.
And it worked at keeping the Middle East busy and Europe safe for the most part (if you don’t count the incalculable death toll having them fighting amongst themselves has caused, and random terrorist attacks).
