What Syria Reveals about Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The History of the Ottoman Empire
The first world war was the empire destroying war. It really proved how much more efficient nation states were at mobilizing the population, getting money and putting up a standing army that would go out and die for the state. And so we have the austro hungarian, the german emp the russian empire and the ottoman empire, for our purposes, all collapse. Out of it comes a string of new nation states. They're nine in europe. There's a whole bunch in the middle east that are new nation states with new borders. We saw what happened in yugoslavia. But that's what is happening in the 11 states and the middle eastern states to
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