Having just celebrated a holiday rooted in World War 1, it might be interesting to understand the consequences of that conflict. WWI ended on the eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour, thus November 11th.
Given that WW2 is usually more explored and WWI is relegated as some ancient conflict, it is interesting to note how much of today's trouble spots are based on decisions made by Imperial powers post WWI. Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afganistan, all created by the winning side, the then European Imperial powers. In this case mostly Britain and France, but others were involved as well.
So why do the Western powers persistent in maintaining the nation-state charade?
Certainly it was not the case in the former Yugoslavia. There the country was split mostly along ethanic lines. So why not Iraq? Why not Afganistan? Especially in the case of Afganistan, it is a hodgepodge of ethnic groups. In the case of Libya, it was created by Italy from three former Ottoman provinces.
Let the people decide, not unlike the case of the newly formed state of South Sudan.
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