[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?

[PieterCasparzen]

I said, it was part of the Ottoman Empire.

And WWI was engineered war by the financial elites of the world to break up the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman Empires.

And institute a World Governance organization that all the major powers after the war would be part of.