That's true.

But like

Can you redraw the borders of the Middle East now differently from the Sykes-Picot Agreement?

No, it's too long-standing.

It wouldn't be practical.

With Cyprus, the vast majority are Greek Cypriots.

The government is formerly Greek.

And Turkey invaded unlawfully.

isn't there still demilitarized zones in Cyprus?

there is

Yes.

The Turks invaded a part of Cyprus with no legal basis of justification.

*or

Yeah I remember watching a documentary on it awhile back on YouTube. It's been happening since like the 60's or 70's. Cyprus used to be a popular celebrity vacation spot back in the 60's until war broke out. Why did the Turks invade? They claim it's their land or something?

They do.

The Turks are basically using WWII Germany logic and saying “we have an ethnic minority here therefore we should unite our ethnic peoples”

Which is retarded because when they invaded only 17% of the population were ethnically Turkish

Even right now, there are roughly 650000 Greek Cypriots to Turkish Cypriots.

*150000

Lol that's fuckin' nuts. I know blacks aren't African, but that is like Africa invading the US because 13% of the population is black.

That's also why they've been deploying troops into northern Syria, since there's an ethnic minority of Turkic tribesmen there.

They were likely hoping Syria would collapse entirely so they could annex it.

The Turks aren’t to be trusted

And then they wonder why Christians were fighting the Crusades

Honestly, giving Cyprus to Greece would be better for everyone because Greece’s economy can be revitalised and everyone in Europe can benefit from Greece.

Yeah Cyprus has a lot of tourism potential, which could help with it's prolonged debt crisis

Exactly

Cyprus could be great but it cannot sustain itself as an independent state, nor can it sustain itself under the control of globalist Greece.

But tbh Turkey is by far the worst option geopolitically speaking because the Turks are just gonna use the oil money to fuck everyone over.

@BwF Romulan

Look at the spending, debt, and GDP as base metrics

Like macroeconomically speaking

Those are the big ones

But it’s a bit more complicated than that

You’ve gotta look at state-specific tax rates, financial self-sufficiency, etc.

Average income rates in different areas

It’s actually funny because if you look at heavily blue states, especially the ones like CA, they have a much shorter bell curve when it comes to average income after tax.

To sorta unpack that

I am of the opinion that economics is in its infancy, and needs a lot of perfection.

More people make shit money, the middle class is very limited, and the rich are very rich.

I think some people understand certain markets, but the world is big