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[โ€“] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They didn't just do that out of ignorance, although that certainly was a part of it. They often drew borders deliberately through ethnic groups to sow division.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, it was incredibly fucked up. iirc, one of the core goals of ISIS was to undo Sykes-Picot, even.