• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    They didn’t just do that out of ignorance, although that certainly was a part of it. They often drew borders deliberately through ethnic groups to sow division.

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      Yeah, it was incredibly fucked up. iirc, one of the core goals of ISIS was to undo Sykes-Picot, even.