Amen....
and, The northern Tigris valley and possibly parts of the Euphrates valley will become a new nation of Sunni Arabs. This stretches as far east and south as parts of Iraq. I’m not sure how this will be divied up with the Kurds, but it will.
My belief is that the area will return to the Ottoman tribal status quo minus the Ottomans. That is not to say the Turks will be left out. Turkey will have a part in it all.
“My belief is that the area will return to the Ottoman tribal status quo minus the Ottomans. That is not to say the Turks will be left out. Turkey will have a part in it all.”
As noted before on FR, the root of much of our problems in the ME has been the way the Brits, France, US and somewhat Russia divided up the ME after WWII into countries they wanted and to control the people for the oil in the Middle East.
There were a couple of episodes of Foyle’s War that dealt with what was done to placate the Sauds after WWII was over.
That was my first real exposure to what was done in the ME to ensure the flow of oil into the UK and Europe.
I discussed this with a former Brit woman we know. She has been a proud American citizen for decades. Her father was a security driver for the MI whatevers and parliament after WWII until the mid 1950’s. He, retired and came to America.
He was the invisible trusted worker bee, when he drove the power people around in his limos. He heard a lot of things that he knew would probably cause problems later. He basically stayed quiet about what he heard until the Mullahs took over Iran.
After the Shah was deposed by the rabid Jihadists, who took over Iran, and then the ruthless muslim dictators and their more vicious off spring successors took over the middle east. This man began to talk about what he felt had contributed to the muslim problem.
This man started telling his daughter (our friend) and her husband, how some Brits had predicted this outcome. They were told to shut up to ensure the flow of oil into the UK and Europe. He said the US was backing the Brits in the dividing up of the ME after WWII.
He died shortly after the first Gulf War. He said that hell on earth would be in the ME forever, and we needed to step back and let them kill each other. Or kill them if they tried to harm us.