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https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/eremy-clarkson-trump-greenland-us-britain-z7hsqfmfj

If you were growing up in the Roman empire, you would have looked at a map of the world and thought, “Well that’s that then. That’s how the world is, and obviously how the world should be.” But then suddenly it wasn’t any more. And now no one minds.

By the middle of the 20th century, we really did think we had it all worked out. The lines had all been drawn, and everyone was happy. Even if some of the lines that created the state of Jordan had been drawn round Winston Churchill’s whisky glass, which was on the map at the time.

Today though, people all over the globe aren’t happy at all. The Syrians believe Israel should be in Wales, the Argentinians think Britain ends at Land’s End, not Port Stanley, the Russians think Ukraine is theirs, Starmer’s giving Diego Garcia to Mauritius, Northern Ireland is a hot potato, and don’t get me started on Svalbard — which is only Norwegian until lithium is discovered there, when it will somehow become French.

https://archive.ph/krYV4
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