Kumar Gopal retweetledi

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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