The original secret Sykes-Picot map of 1916: "A" would go to France, "B" to Britain. A map marked with crude chinagraph-pencil in the second decade of the 20th Century shows the ambition - and folly - of the 100-year old British-French plan that helped create the modern-day Middle East. Straight lines make uncomplicated borders. Most probably that was the reason why most of the lines that Mark Syk
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