The the the borders
tbh, up to 80 years ago Europeans were in constant war as well and nobody else drew their borders
EU had to be created to finally stop French and Germans from killing each other
Europe had it’s borders defined by wars for millennia. So i guess it’s only fitting we decided the borders, and that it lead to more war.
It’s not just Europe, it’s everywhere.
Before the British Mandate, Iraq was part of the Ottoman Empire, and as Wikipedia says:
Throughout most of the period of Ottoman rule (1533–1918) the territory of present-day Iraq was a battle zone between the rival regional empires and tribal alliances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iraq
Before the Ottomans were the Mongols, who slaughtered their way across the world.
The only kind of “stable” period was when the Abbasid Caliphate had Baghdad at its core – but that only meant that the border wars were happening elsewhere in the middle east.
When the Europeans got to the Americas, they killed a lot of natives. But, they also made alliances with some of the natives who were eager to have a new ally in their territorial conflict with other native groups, because, surprise surprise, before the Europeans got there the native groups were in a constant state of conflict over territory too.
The history of humanity is conflict. Even chimps fight brutal fights with other chimp groups over territory, so it goes back to our non-human ancestors.
There’s nothing unique about Europeans and conflicts over territory.
A lot of the German wars in Europe I can think of right now where actually fought because of poorly drawn borders or were at least motivated largely by borders. Including French German wars. The Elsass-Lothringen dispute has always been extremely important for french-german relations.
And lets not forget shit like the CIA overthrowing attempts at democracy.
And of course the UN partitioning Palestine to create Israel.
And all the fucking oil wars.
They didn’t just create the borders, but also actively pitted the different local groups in each region, all over the globe, against each other to keep them from joining forces against the colonisers and imperialists, so very deliberate war mongering.
Similar tactics are used today in the form of “culture wars” and institutional and systemic bigotry - we (the working class, the majority of the population) are divided and pitted against each other by those who want to keep us from joining forces and turning on them.
Not pretty much, they literally did that. The Rwandan genocide (probably the most well known, next to Darfur) was the direct result of Belgian colonialism and racism.
Yes, that’s why I said
the different local groups in each region, all over the globe
Me? Fuckin hell I must’ve been fuckin hammered that night mate. Sorry, don’t remember a thing. Tell you what, I’ll put right anything I did personally, alright?
