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2. Civil War
The Rest Is History
Ancient Hatreds
In the 19 thirties spain was a plausible, reasonable nation state. And even in areas with no separatism, people still killed their neighbours. In syria there's a sense that both countries are kind of artificial entities stitched together out of the tatters of what had been the ottoman empire. There is a case for saying that civil wars get incubated in nation states that perhaps previously were part of imperial frameworks. But that's ok, i can buy that a little bit.
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