Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die
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Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
I like how it has ugly lines all over it
Poor poor Ireland, it's just Ireland.Highly realistic:
I mean the eurony of it all.
sophie
Break My Heart
At least it's whole again, though.
sophie
Break My Heart
Well that's unfortunate.
Lexicus
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Highly realistic:
I mean the eurony of it all.
*Volgaia Forever plays in background*
Broken_Erika
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I like how the USA has been exiled to Iceland. I'm assuming North America consists of Greater Canada, Mexico Grande and the New California Republic.
Iceland seems to just be a US colony (ala Cyprus being part of the MRG)
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
I mean, it's not wrong.
Remarkable how they could narrow the number of polar bears in Florida down so accurately into under 1000 per year.
I mean, it's not wrong.
Chukchi Husky
Lone Wolf
The polar bear patrol is clearly working in most of the United States.
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Broken_Erika
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Interesting. It doesn't have Urfa under French control, but it does have Greater Armenia. Not sure how the timing for that works - or if the mapmaker was simply unaware of the French government's machinations.
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
Hey sorry to bother you but I vaguely remember you mentioning once a treaty or whatever you said was more important than Sykes-Picot. What was it again?
Sorry if I misremember
It's a little bit of a misremembering, but no worries. Diplomatic history is kind of butt.
One of the reasons that I said that the Sykes-Picot agreement wasn't that important in the quoted post is because it was only one of a number of partition plans that various powers had drawn up for the Ottoman Empire. Partition plans were kind of like a sport for European diplomats and people who fancied themselves statesmen. Foreigners of varying stripes had been predicting the Ottoman Empire's demise for a century and a half and preparing the maps of the New Order for just as long. So while the public reaction to the agreement when it was published by Izvestiia in 1917 was horror at the naked imperialism of the West (which is the same as the public reaction nowadays, I think), it's not as though that should have been a surprise.
The surprising thing was more that the agreement was essentially a Russian plan, which the British adopted to please their Russian allies, and which the British strenuously worked to sell to the French government despite it, y'know, giving Russia everything it wanted while Britain and France had to "compromise" on what was left. But even that wasn't exactly new; the British Foreign Office had been bending over backward for the tsarist government since 1914 and would continue to do so long after the tsar himself was in the ground. It was just one more instance of a bizarre and egregious servility on the part of the wartime cabinet.
Anyway. The agreement didn't end up being the final form of the settlement for the Middle East for a long, long list of reasons, it was only one of about a zillion concrete examples of the base hypocrisy of the Entente governments' denunciations of aggressive imperialistic warmongering, and it had an esoteric name that students hate trying to remember for the inevitable quiz or essay. It wasn't that big a deal.
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