Poll of the Day 1/27/16

[Big Brother]

ottomans, because if the middle east had never been held under one banner then the Europeans may never have ran in there so damn hard, craved up tribal and natural ethnic groups, and left us with the post-Sykes-Picot Agreement bullshit we have today. So, ottomans, because they put a target on their backs (for the French and British to shoot at)

You could attribute that to the British and/or French though and not the Ottomans. All the Ottoman Empire did was exist, hardly something they can be blamed for doing, it was the British and French that targeted it and brought about the result from Sykes-Picot. If the Middle East hadn't been under the unified rule of the Ottomans, I think the Middle East would simply present itself as an easier and equally juicy target. The resources wouldn't go anywhere and if the Middle East was split into smaller nations they'd just be easier to dominate for European colonial powers.

 

[Patrick MacFarlane]

You could attribute that to the British and/or French though and not the Ottomans. All the Ottoman Empire did was exist, hardly something they can be blamed for doing, it was the British and French that targeted it and brought about the result from Sykes-Picot. If the Middle East hadn't been under the unified rule of the Ottomans, I think the Middle East would simply present itself as an easier and equally juicy target. The resources wouldn't go anywhere and if the Middle East was split into smaller nations they'd just be easier to dominate for European colonial powers.

I was just coming up with a reason not to put France or United Kingdom, honestly. However, I did enjoy reading your reply. All of that is very true.