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Originally Posted by Adder
Not sure why you're absolving the French of responsibility, but yes, the current issues in the regime date to the decline of the Ottomans.
They weren't dim-witted, though. They were drawing lines to suit their interests, not the interests of locals. That's how imperialism works.
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The Ottomans were no piece of cake, either, but arguments and territory and populations exchanges between Turks, Arabs, and Persians (with a few Greeks, Balkans, and assorted others thrown in) went on for 1000 years before France and England showed up and joined the party.
There is some degree to which western imperialism wasn't all that different from preceding forms. The Brits are much less special than they think they are.
