How two men carved up the Middle East with a ruler | BORDERS BRITAIN DREW Part 3 of 4

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In 1916, in the middle of WWI, Britain and France secretly agreed to carve up the Arab Middle East. One of them, MP Mark Sykes, drew the border as a near-straight line "from Acre to Kirkuk" — across a region he'd never seen. Those lines invented Iraq, Syria and Lebanon by forcing rival communities into single states ruled by one of them. A century later, three of those countries have collapsed — Assad fell in 2024, and the map two men drew is still bleeding. Part 3 of BORDERS BRITAIN DREW. Follow for Part 4: the last line Britain drew — at home, in Ireland. Some scenes are cinematic reconstructions of documented events. All quotes, dates, and sources are historically verified. #shorts #history #SykesPicot #BritishEmpire #MiddleEast #Syria #Iraq #Lebanon #1916 #BordersBritainDrew