[HN Gopher] Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europ...
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       Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-11-20 06:43 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | NotGMan wrote:
       | >> There are alternative arrangements, but P.A.M. assures his
       | reader that he has chosen "the most advantageous and fair"
       | division, which will instantly resolve the Balkan question and
       | all other tensions.
       | 
       | Haha.
       | 
       | This is why academics and idealists must be mocked without regard
       | when they come up with idiotisms like this.
       | 
       | They did that in Africa: they created some arbitrary country
       | lines without regards for the local tribes. The results? Constant
       | political fighting and wars because you now forced two tribes
       | which hated each other with a force of a thousand suns into the
       | same new country.
       | 
       | So it wasn't "left" vs "right" but "Triba A" vs "Tribe B". No
       | chance they'd get togather or that people would move from triba A
       | to B because of some "political" opinion. It was more like blood
       | revenge.
       | 
       | The belief that you could force two hating cultures into loving
       | each other because you draw up some arbitrary lines on the map
       | and say "now get well together, children" is [redacted] to say
       | the least.
        
         | vGPU wrote:
         | See: Crimea. Israel. Etc.
        
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