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[-] germanatlas 169 points 11 months ago
[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

Didn't know saddam hussein was a colossal giant

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The US was wrong about Iraq having nukes, but they were close to the truth. In reality, they were pumping Saddam full of enriched uranium so that he'd mutate and grow to a titanic size.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

The US wanted to create Titans? Sick dude

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

sadam was the nuke this whole time…..

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You'd think he wouldn't have been able to hide in that hole.

[-] Baizey@feddit.dk 1 points 11 months ago

Who do you think the sphinx was modeled after?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Should pass this on to anyone who has an "opinion" about the current situation.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 102 points 11 months ago
[-] match@pawb.social 50 points 11 months ago

Call that a loss of the right to self-determination

[-] sweetcuppincakes@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

I love the way this cake is cut

[-] ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

just in case the meaning is lost on you, that's loss

[-] ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I guess so, I don't get the joke

[-] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

uh uh, uh, uh...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

I'm going to color the whole thing red and blue to reflect who should be the rightful owner of the Middle East- Liechtenstein!

[-] 768@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

Fuck Liechtenstein, Fuck Hilti, Fuck monarchy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

You better watch what you say or Liechtenstein will send all three members of its Army after you.

[-] 768@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago

The Liechtenstein-lords are probably able to finance several Wagners.

Liechtenstein also has no army since 1868, but a police of ~85 officers.

Monarchies have to be toppled by principle.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

You must be fun at parties.

[-] Wodge@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

That person doesn't get invited to parties.

[-] Lileath 3 points 11 months ago

The lord of Liechtenstein is a petty misogynistic asshole though. He deserves the Guillotine.

[-] 768@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I don't like your parties.

[-] ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Wait, what are the rest of us missing? Is Liechtenstein actually a state or is that a joke? What's going on?

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago

Liechtenstein is a real country between Switzerland and Austria haha. They have no military and were accidentally invaded by the Swiss when a bunch of their soldiers got lost one time

[-] Sekoia 13 points 11 months ago

Not just the one time. The swiss bombed it via artillery once (blew up some deck chairs in the only ski resort), started a forest fire with anti-air missiles, set up an observation post, and had soldiers march in like 5 times.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein%E2%80%93Switzerland_relations

[-] query@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It wasn't with no regard. They were deliberately giving minorities power over majorities and splitting ethnic groups with borders to fuel conflicts.

[-] stewsters@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I think folks here are not giving them enough credit. It wasn't just some random dude drawing lines for no reason.

The purpose of a lot of what Britain was doing was to prevent unification into a new Ottoman Empire successor. They intended the internal conflict in the region.

And it worked at keeping the Middle East busy and Europe safe for the most part (if you don't count the incalculable death toll having them fighting amongst themselves has caused, and random terrorist attacks).

[-] BeanGoblin 38 points 11 months ago

It's done. That's it. Just the whole thing. Let's run with it.

[-] sonori@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago

One country called country and one language called language.

[-] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The whole US is now just Wyoming, social experiment.

Why?

First state I could think of that didn't bring anything to my mind.

[-] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

Don't miss your chance to embed pieces of countries into one another. Go wild, let's have nested enclaves several layers deep!

[-] labsin@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago
[-] dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

You should have seen India-Bangladesh border pre 2015.

[-] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Make it worse by enveloping the country that envelopes you that you are enveloping, a bit like this 🎯

[-] ShittyKopper 2 points 11 months ago

like a tic tac inside a polo inside a bagel inside bangladesh

[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

I remember learning that there was a joke (but quite possibly legit) notion that the reason there's that huge, sharp indent in the Jordanian border is because Winston Churchill was drunk while he was splitting up the map and hiccuped, and that's how that weird part of the border came to be.

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 16 points 11 months ago

Let's use a spirograph

[-] pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure this was from the America book by Jon Stewart, yeah? That book was a trip.

[-] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago
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[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

There's 300million people and 7 million km². I'd give everyone 20m² and an AK (making sure to split up families as much as possible). Surely nothing will go wrong with this wholely equitable division of land!

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I'm calling dibs on the peak of mount Ararat.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I want to create a Greater Persian Empire that includes Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This piece of paper limits my creative freedom.

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Is this Arthur Balfour's colouring book?

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