And, Churchill marked up the MidEast and produced similar results because he was in a hurry. I remember reading that after WW I, he carved up the Ottoman empire's territory on a map in an afternoon.
That's what happened to the Kurds. They were told they'd get their own country, Kurdistan, but their hoped-for land got split between Turkey and Iraq.
15 posted on 09/26/2023 7:31:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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