• SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    You must mean the British and French who took control from the Ottomans. America had very little to do with it until much later.

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      15 days ago

      Both the Syrian and Iraqi dictatorships took power in American-backed coups. Before that they were democracies with varying degrees of political upheaval.