this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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Context (for those who don't know): Israel and Palestine

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly and when they drew the borders of those artificial nations, they had a strange talent for choosing two or more peoples who would otherwise never have formed a nation together voluntarily, so they still don´t get along today and probably never will.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting we should reinstate the glory of the British empire?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How the fuck did you get that from what you just read??