The ending of empires began 100 years ago today when the Armistice of Mudros by Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire. The successor state of the latter is Turkey. Britain and its allies won, the Turks lost.
It was the Turks who committed the Armenian Genocide, which is an atrocity Turkey has never admitted.
Never forget.
The Brits and French also carved up the Ottoman Empire in a way to get the oil for themselves and left us a legacy of failed Arab states.
ReplyDeleteTrue on the first. On the second, those states would have failed anyway, in my opinion at least.
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