Kumar Gopal me-retweet

In the attempt to discern the points in history that helped shape our current world, it's popular to choose ending Bretton Woods and the rise of neolibs Thatcher/Reagan, or WW2/Hiroshima, but I humbly offer the UK & France carving up the remnants of the Ottoman Empire.
William Dalrymple@DalrympleWill
This week's @EmpirePodUK: Sykes-Picot: Carving up the Middle-East Between 23 November 1915 and 3 January 1916 an English aristocrat and a French colonial official drew a line on a map: the basis for an Anglo-French partition of the Ottoman Empire. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emp…
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