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Might be a little ASB but its a bit of an intersting question. So after WWI the Allies break up the Ottomans like OTL, but then they do nothing. No randomly drawn boundaries, no Balfour Agreement, no inital seeds of Israel, they just leave it alone (don't worry why, they just do).

What happens?

I can see Turkey staying about the same with Ataturk doing his thing and keeping the ethnicly Turkish areas together. But what about the rest?

Would the Shia in Iraq join with the Persians or form their own Shia kingdom that could be a potential flash point?

Possible Kurdistan?

Possible Semi-Caliphate uniting the Sunni Arabs from Syria to Arabia? Would the House of Saud or maybe someone else manage to become the new head honcho of this state?

Or would it just descend into a bunch of small kingdoms and theocracies, maybe one democratic experiment.

What do yall think?
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