Drawing parallels between the counter-revolution of 1776 and a post-Sykes-Picot ME
13 min readAs the settler-colonialist in North America came to the fore to continue slavery and ethnic cleansing in the 1770s, and performed an “American Revolution” in order to do so, the Gulf states are now coming to the fore to consolidate the Sykes-Picot colonial order in West Asia.
As the geographical partitioning of West Asia is rooted in British colonialism, it is perfectly rational to delve into British and American colonial history so to map the trajectory of the perceived “tectonic” shift.
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