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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.
Yeah, it was incredibly fucked up. iirc, one of the core goals of ISIS was to undo Sykes-Picot, even.
Europe itself would look nice and orderly with some rectangles. Luxembourg can become a square! So exciting!
Reminds me of the guy who was deported for making fun of Luxembourg's size too much.
Judge: you have 24 hours to leave the country
That dude: I have a bicycle, give me 10 minutes
Well, Iberia, Frnce, Deutschland, and Poland already look like a bunch of boxes side by side.
You mean USA? Should we make a border based on something? No, just draw a straight line.
The Rio Grande Valley on the Texas-Mexico border is a perfect example. They ran the line right through the people that had been there for hundreds of years. And then you try to tell people “go back to where you came from”, but they’ve always been there. It’s the line that moved.
This 3rd world country, that 3rd world country… what’s the difference anyway?!