Context (for those who don’t know): Israel and Palestine

  • Haus
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    2181 year ago

    It worked so well when they did the same thing for themselves and Ireland.

      • @alvvayson
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        601 year ago

        And the Soviets did the same with Armenia and Azerbaijan.

        • @WolfhoundRO
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          31 year ago

          Or Moldova and Transnistria. Or Georgia and Abhazia and South Ossetia

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Because all those countries had lovely relationships among the people beforehand with absolutely no genocide and war.

        Really easy to make perfect borders that makes everyone happy.

        • @[email protected]
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          251 year ago

          They weren’t countries. They became countries when the colonizers (and I’m using that term as accurately as possible) lumped together into managed regions and then told them they were countries with their own governments and flags. It was all “We’re going to conquer these people and these people and these people, then put Governor Fitzroy, nephew to the Prince, in charge of all of it with a big army to back him up.” Then they wrote laws and made flags and all the happy crappy stuff they do. Then they lost WWII (because pretty much everyone except for the US lost WWII), and said “you’re on your own.”

          They turned former colonies into artificial countries with governments that all but guaranteed factionalism.

          There was always war, and there always will be war. But the specific type of war we’re seeing in former colonies is because of the post-colonial situation.

    • dreadgoat
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      671 year ago

      It always works out fine for them. I don’t know why anybody says imperialism or colonialism are bad or destructive, seems to me that Britain and France and Spain and Portugal and the Dutch are all doing fine. Really weird how maps of their empires seem to overlap a lot with parts of the world that currently or recently experienced a lot of, idk let’s call it “troubles?” They must be dumb or smth

      • @[email protected]
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        321 year ago

        Well, since those former colonies can’t quite work it out on their own, maybe they should just be brought back into their respective empires again? 🤔

    • Decoy321
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      1 year ago

      They even had a nice little name for it, The Troubles Fun Times!