![]() ![]() ![]() Mountains may ensure peaceful coexistence between India and China but not with India and Pakistan. Tim talks a lot about the implications of the artificial borders drawn up by the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916, whose consequences are still reverberating throughout the Middle East and beyond. The radicals from IS which murdered people and captured territory, also seized on an area important in the internet age : psychological space I learned a bit about how Islam has been separated in Sunni and Shia since year 633, which created huge doctrinal disputes that continue to this day. The so-called Middle East is home to the largest continuous sand desert in the world, an area the size of France. ![]() Again, these were lines that did not exist in reality, and their sudden existence created some of the most artificial borders in the world.Īn attempt is unfortunately now made to redraw them in blood… The area was subdivided and governed according to ethnicity and religion, but there were no real attempts to create nation-states.īecause they had done such a “great” job in Africa, and they were used to draw lines on maps. The Middle East had few country borders, after the first world war. ![]()
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