How Did World War I Cause Today’s Middle East Problems?
Best selling author of “Understanding World War I: A Concise History”, and keynote speaker and commentator on military and international affairs Joseph V. Micallef dropped by Kilmeade and Friends to discuss how World War I transformed the 20th Century.
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Joseph described how Great Britain and France imposed borders on the Middle East that had no cultural or ethnic validity. The Sykes-Picot agreement did not take into account what the people of the Middle East wanted but how it would best serve the European powers and how they could divvy up the oil fields in the area.
