Jocko and Jordan Peterson. (it starts off a little intense)

Well first off Armenia isn't really part of the middle east so I'm not sure how that relates. Was the Ottoman regime abhorrent? Yes absolutely, but why does that make the actions of France and Britain in the middle east not greedy?

The only thing worse than what happened would have been leaving the remains of the ottomans to be picked over by Asia, other middle eastern countries and each other.

There wasn't really such a thing as "other middle eastern countries" back then unless you mean Nejd, which ended up becoming Saudia Arabia anyway, and some minor emirates. France and Britain drew the modern borders (based on Sykes–Picot, compare to Ottoman provincial borders from around the same time) and later, in 1920, France, after initially supporting an inland Arab controlled state, ousted Faisal I as the king of Syria and assumed direct control. This is probably a source of much instability, for centuries Turkish Ottoman rule had legitimacy, Faisal had legitimacy, direct French (and British) rule did not. Arab resentment to the deal had been building since 1916 after the Russians leaked the details of Sykes–Picot as the Arabs were promised more autonomy for revolting against the Ottomans. And even Sykes–Picot turned out to be a much more generous deal than what ended up happening.

Could something worse have happened if Sykes–Picot had been upheld or if Sykes–Picot had never been drawn up at all? Of course there is a chance, Iran may have sought to restore Safavid borders and more at some point although they were also under colonial influence at the time. But what I want to put across is how destabilizing British and French actions in the region were during the breakup of the Ottoman empire, and that better alternatives were possible at multiple junctures.

And this isn't even wading into the creation of Israel.

Remember, history doesn’t start at western colonialism and every culture on earth would have done what the west did, they just get to pretend they wouldn’t have, because their cultures lost.

I'm not sure who is saying this? This seems more like an ideological chip on your shoulder.

Some sources: "A Line in the Sand" by James Barr (details Sykes–Picot), "Turkey: A Modern History" by Erik Zürcher (first chapters deal with late Ottoman history and its breakup).

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