[PieterCasparzen]

LOL, after the elites engineered war, WWI, broke up the Ottoman Empire...

and then became part of the ... elites... “British mandate”...

and then it was made into a country.

See a pattern ?

[odds]

Was waiting for you to articulate ;)

Then again, that's A definition of a country. Historically, even before the British Mandate, what was Iraq?