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Sashadroogie
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| Tsars are Piggies too! |
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sheikh radlinrol
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
The "Great Powers" should have left it with the Ottomans !
Incidentally what happened to the Chilcot Report ? Shelved ? (IK Official Inquiry into Origins of the Invasion of Iraq) |
Yes. The Greeks did better under the Turks. |
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scot47
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The sheikh may rattle and roll but he has no sense of irony.
By the time WW1 came along the Greeks had been independent for 90+years. It was after WW1 that the victors carved up the Arab Lands that had been Ottoman. A recipe for disaster. |
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sheikh radlinrol
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| Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
The sheikh may rattle and roll but he has no sense of irony.
By the time WW1 came along the Greeks had been independent for 90+years. It was after WW1 that the victors carved up the Arab Lands that had been Ottoman. A recipe for disaster. |
Thank you but irony doesn´t escape me. I also have some knowledge of history. |
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