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At least IMHO, many of the current problems that we see in the world can be linked back to the European powers improperly drawing borders and disregarding the ethnicities of the people affected. One of the most important instances of this can be found in the Sykes-Picot Agreement, in which Britain and France partitioned the eastern Middle East between them. I'm aware that there were other agreements that developed along the same time, but for the sake of clarity let's try to group them all together.

WI the agreements between the Western powers partitioning the remnants of the Ottoman Empire between them gave more weight to cultural and ethnic concerns than imperialist agendas? Simply put, what if the borders drawn in the Middle East weren't just random lines drawn on a map? What would the Middle East look like, and how would this have affected history?
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