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It's not like the Scottish REALLY matter, after all (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

The lines in the Middle East, or any other post colonial area weren't drawn based on "who cares?" They were drawn on "how do we make sure this stays a mess?" In that sense the Roman approach differed. For they knew already that Scotland was an ungovernable mess at the time.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Ungovernable mess is a hell of a way to say resistant to foreign authoritarian central control.

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