What If The Middle East's Borders Were Redrawn?

The geopolitics of the Middle East have become synonymous with instability, war, and conflict, and much of this is owed to the borders of the middle east. Middle Eastern borders definitely need to be redrawn, as the current borders contribute to wars and hostilities such as those between Iran and Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Syria and Israel, Syria and Turkey, etc., but can new borders actually bring peace to the middle eastern region? Monsieur Z and the US of Z community have come together to redraw the borders of the middle east to solve exactly that! This is what if the Middle East's borders were redrawn?
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[@MonsieurDean]

I would just reestablish Rome if I could.

[@IVBW-by8lf]

Ok

[@TheRatOnFire_]

Roma Invicta, Roma Aeterna

[@PrussiaAustriaConfederal]

Viva Roma. Lunga vita a Roma! Roma è per sempre!

[@msmith1890]

There was once a dream. A dream called Rome.

[@familygash7500]

I think that some Italian guy wearing a fez actually tried to do that, once. He didn't see much success, though.

[@diegoyanesholtz212]

Africa has a poorly drawn border too you should do that continent next.

[@MrGnorts]

there was a map on Reddit that did that, it was very detailed

[@diggingdwarf610]

@@MrGnorts whats it called might wanna check it out

[@MrGnorts]

@@diggingdwarf610 the only one I've found so far is "Map of Ethnicities in Africa [OC]" by ChocolateInTheWinter I really can't recall the one I thought of, but there's a chance this one is actually the one I thought of edit: the other maps with seemingly more "countries" aren't ethnic, but tribal edit2: there's also "Extremely detailed map of Africa's languages [2429 x 2969]"

[@diggingdwarf610]

@@MrGnorts thanks imma look at them

[@MrGnorts]

@@diggingdwarf610 np man

[@AgentPerry8018]

Britain and France should go back and redraw the Middle East’s borders since they’re the ones who made them

[@MonsieurDean]

Second times the charm, ey?

[@1650th]

I don't want radioactive sand thank you very much

[@JAKE-em5xr]

You never let a british draw a map they wont do it good second time either

[@TheRealVenom448]

If you mean via nuke, then the sand would turn into glass.​@@1650th

[@TheTrex9000]

No, don't ever let Britain cook again

[@Marcus-nn6js]

Well, this won't cause massive arguments in the comments.

[@MonsieurDean]

Monsieur Z in a Fez: “Haha! Now let the donkey and elephant fight for my amusement!”

[@No_Nem12345]

@@MonsieurDeanwhy didn’t I understand that 💀

[@Guacamoc]

@@No_Nem12345rep v democrat, elephant v donkey, Fez= little red hat associated with the near east and North Africa

[@No_Nem12345]

@@Guacamoc oh thx!!

[@CMVBrielman]

7:20 You do know Jordan tried *exactly* that, right? And for their trouble, a Palestinian assassinated their king.

[@MonsieurDean]

Damn

[@Kolateak_]

And then Palestinians tried to do it _again_

[@Chr0n0s38]

​@@MonsieurDean Palestinians are fiercely anti-monarchy. The only solution would be to force Israel to treat them all as first class citizens, though due to how many Palestinians there are the result would be the end of the idea of Israel as a Jewish state.

[@familygash7500]

They straight up tried to overthrow The Hashmites in a civil war known as: 'Black September'. Why they did that, I have no idea.

[@user-oy2zg3bt6n]

@@MonsieurDean this is not the only problem with the map either, Saudi Arabia will just collapse, water problems will be plaguing everyone but Israel who's already been dealing with that by desalinization, Israel and U.A.R border disputes over the Christians and the Golan, the entire future of the region depending on weather the Persians people would decide their own fate or would remain as an Islamic theocracy (because one thing that's suppose to be VERY clear is how Shiite population are literally everywhere that's important and nowhere else!

[@beastdork19]

Naw bro you drew worse borders than even the French and British with this one 💀

[@Omarkhawaldeh13]

Thank you from an actual middle eastern Jordanian 🇯🇴❤️

[@easternhistorian4763]

Make it all Cyprus, the Kingdom of Cyprus needs to extend to Greece, Armenia Cilicia and all of the levant.

[@sarantis1995]

Richard the Lion heart, first king of Cyprus xD

[@Jose-cy7od]

I like apple juice.

[@kayseek1248]

I prefer apple & mango

[@korotan658]

I don't like the juice

[@jolly-rancher]

apple juice sucks

[@MonsieurDean]

Why not papaya?

[@PresidentAutumn]

I like cranberry juice

[@DeanMonsieur]

Redraw intergalactic borders next. The Spug System has been unlawfully mining Zorback Gling Crystals for too long!

[@MonsieurDean]

This is a must!

[@TastefulGorilla]

Free Quasarstan.

[@TheTrex9000]

Please, we all know Kepler 32b rightfully owns all of the Cygnus Sector.

[@jameszog1018]

@@TheTrex9000 Kepler Imperialists! Vroxia forever!

[@adamhastie8439]

Vive la sirius

[@W3ap0n1zedAut1sm]

Waiting for all the Greeks to start flipping out that they are included in this lol

[@johncalabria1607]

It’s understandable because of Cyprus being involved. I don’t think anyone misinterpreted this video as saying Greeks are middle eastern

[@sarantis1995]

I was puzzled when I saw my country on the middle east map but then again when it came to Cyprus, as a direct extension of Turkey's territorial claims, it makes sense. The Greece (incl Cyprus) - Judeojordan - UAR - Egypt axis would be a very formidable force in the region of East Mes though. The proposed borders look nice from an objective perspective but Turkey comes out as a "big loser" and only in 1920 would such an arrangement have worked.

[@mastrey]

​@@sarantis1995 i feel that the economic crisis in turkey have the potential capacity to force turkey to accept some type of kurdistan estate The Chipre situation can be more dificult because the population of ilegal occupands is growing A potential solution will be a ecconomic incentive to remove non-locals from east chipre to a more comfortable levels before any type of fusion with Chipre were the Fusion with Grece will be posible I also feel that Middle East have 5 Regional powers Iran Saudis Egypt Turkey and Israel and maybe a improve bersion of the map needs to include the full caucasus region

[@assasine08]

Not did they only "lose" land but imagine how bad turkey would try to escalate the problem of sea borders with Greece if that is today already a big issue.

[@olbiomoiros]

@@johncalabria1607 Even if that were so. There were Greeks in Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt. It’s not like Greeks are completely detached from the Middle East. We have a historical connection. Not to mention how Cyprus is literally in the Middle East.

[@End_Mii]

WRONG! Middle East is historical Albanian land! 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@Deridus]

Long live King Zog!

[@beastdork19]

Finally someone who gets who really owns the Middle East!!!

[@scorpionjaxxer339]

No. That’s stupid

[@Deridus]

@@scorpionjaxxer339 Yes, factually accurate.

[@scorpionjaxxer339]

@@Deridus Roman and Persia would be better. Rome rules west, Persia rules east (oversimplification). At least in a perfect world😅

[@NordicSupremacist]

The American gon fix the French British mistake!

[@utopia4056]

Yea we thought the same thing about Vietnam.

[@aehoward91]

Ah we just need to spread manage democracy all they need is some freedom!

[@jgw9990]

​@@utopia4056Pain. America missed an opportunity to stick it to the French and side with the Vietnamese. Britain basically advised France to leave as soon as possible, but France wouldn't listen.

[@ChariTheAlternate]

Screw off

[@thomasdevine867]

Something has to be done. And anything that wasn't malicious or about control by outsiders would have to be better.

[@Counterfactualy_no]

This comment section is going to be peaceful and civil with no out of control debates

[@Zaabi]

Not gonna lie the map was definitely made by people who ether never lived in Arabia or people who don’t know the Middle East- this is cursed

[@adamnesico]

Any frontiers would be cursed. What would you draw instead?

[@Zaabi]

@@adamnesico the Arabian peninsula, merging the Arabian cost states into the uae plus South Yemen including the Hormuz and Qashem islands

[@friendlyreminder3280]

I live in the middle east and this seems pretty good

[@Zaabi]

@@friendlyreminder3280living in the Middle East and being from the Middle East are two different things. And my point was that Arabias borders make zero sense

[@Kyle-qd2sy]

A shame the Assyrian's don't get included in this. After the Assyrian genocide and attacks by ISIS they don't make up a lot of territory anymore but before WWI their population made up a decent amount of what is now south-east Turkey and north west Iraq.

[@Lockfly]

The population of Assyrians in Iraq is that of a small town. Anyway Assyrians live in close proximity mostly with Ezidi Kurds who have outnumbered them for a couple hundred years now and have been their source of protection. If anything it would be way more feasible giving them a state or an Ezidi-Assyrian state.

[@kacgb5315]

Ya source of protection and their genociders to😂, double edged sword ig, the kurds were useful to the Turks when they wanted other minorities dealt with but ay assyrians can't do much since the population is so low and muslims surround them

[@xianxiaemperor1438]

Exactly! what a waste.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

What if we glass it from orbit instead? Much less problems.

[@utopia4056]

That would work of they had done what they did for no reason. You cant destabilize an entire region for 50 years and then wonder why they cant get along. Thats like expecting africa to be peaceful after the french left. Nice way to show how little you know about this though.

[@jgw9990]

​@utopia4056 Before those 50 years, things were kept stable by the Ottoman Turks basically ruling over the Arabs. Maybe its better, maybe not.

[@crusader2112]

​@jgw9990 Indeed. Specifically Jews, Christians and Muslims were living in relative Peace under the Ottomans, then came European Zionist J*ws which in turn radicalized the Muslims.

[@duquedealbadetormes6117]

​@@utopia4056Sooo... Let's just glass Africa. Problem solved.

[@1650th]

Not before I come for you

[@legendtroll7501]

I'm gonna be real. I can understand 99% of the rest of the map. But please enlighten to me as to why major turkish cities in southern anatolia are given to Syria? Kurdish freedom? Understandable. Cyprus united with autonomy? Ok. But how do you justify giving actual majority turkish lands to Syria I am very curious. Even antioch, which Syria actually claims, is today majority turkish in basically every map I have seen in my life.This just does not make sense.

[@Altair-El-Haddad]

It was Syrian lands way back, that's why.

[@ayyybob]

It's majority turkish, end of story ​@@Altair-El-Haddad

[@Altair-El-Haddad]

@@ayyybob not really, it has always been Syrian lands, just like golan heights.

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

​@@ayyybob Thats should not be how decisions are made. By that logic things like colonialism, wars of agression and ethnic cleansing are all just and logical which in reality or not. All human ethnic groups should have thier territory restricted to only thier indigenous lands. We should treat ourselves like the animals we are. Indigenous populations are proven and supported. Unindigenous populations are all deported back to wherever science says the genes are from. TL;DR Aparthied aka traditional nationalism as how all of civilzation worked before things like colonialism and wars of agression ruined.

[@ayyybob]

@@physetermacrocephalus2209 y'know what you do have a point, I'm sorry for what I said

[@legchairhistorian5496]

Wow I’m first 23 seconds, this seems like a very controversial video. Making spheres are reminiscent of the Sykes picot I must say.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

That thumbnail is awesome! You never dissapoint

[@mathieuleader8601]

the fez with a Z is what I picture Lord Zedd from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers to wear on Casual Fridays

[@ColdHighway7]

How to fix the ME: Get the hell out of the region, eliminate foreign aid and the only money that goes there is through trade

[@Mast3r0fTheUniverse]

😂 I doubt the Turks would tolerate this. 😂

[@MonsieurDean]

No one is asking for their consent.

[@Mast3r0fTheUniverse]

@@MonsieurDean a plan guaranteed to fail. Making me laugh 🤣🤣😂🤣🤣 even harder now.

[@adamnesico]

@@Mast3r0fTheUniverseAs any plan is doomed to fail, lets just sell them weapons.

[@Mast3r0fTheUniverse]

@@adamnesico as long as we don’t put any boots on the ground.

[@samankucher5117]

tbh .... alot of turks will take it if given the chance and it is logical 1 fighting kurds and shias is expensive. 2 kurds as a demographic group are increasingly having more children than turks . 3 if kurds and arabs keep moving to western parts of Turkey that will change the demographic and political maps in Turkey. . btw when i say alot of turks will take this i dont mean most turks .

[@xianxiaemperor1438]

It's a real shame that there isn't an Assyrian Republic on this but oh well such is life I suppose...

[@samankucher5117]

there should be one but unfortunately most of them now live in Europe and Amirica .

[@wilpikle7754]

Damn of course we are gonna forget the Assyrians and Chaldeans RIP

[@MPHJackson7]

He probably didn't include them since he was only focusing on states big enough to not get conquered by other states

[@johnthestringray]

​@@MPHJackson7then why the little 4 coastal states in Lebanon and Syria. Those would be eaten up by Israel or the big Syria quite quickly.

[@frasenp8411]

Interesting although I think your "solution" for Israel-Palestine is not at all good. Basically it is just removing Palestinians, from both historical Palestine as well as the Palestine with the current 1967 borders, and moving them to neighbouring countries which would just cause cross border conflicts as they would obviously still want to go back to their land and establish an independent state. Thus I don't see this leading to Israelis and Palestinians living peacefully together or apart. But then again it is a very complicated question and I am not expecting you to solve it here lol but I am surprised that you gave all of the 1967 borders to Israel though.

[@user-oy2zg3bt6n]

most Jordanians even today are "Palestinians" because of former policies and land was even part of the mandate for Palestine (until like 1922) the real problem is Palestinians not wanting Israel to exist (we changed nothing about the people remember) while also hating the Jordanian monarchy. even if all Palestinian were moved onto Jordan they would still overthrow the government and make another terror base/state (like they did in south Lebanon after black September, like in modern Gaza or how they attempted to do in Jordan which lead to black September) it would have probably eventually worked if we tried it from the start but as it is now, nope.

[@frasenp8411]

@@user-oy2zg3bt6n I would definitely not say most Jordanians are Palestinians but the main issue is that both Palestinians and Israelis lay claim to the same land and both have ties to the land both historically and currently and a solution has to be made that is fair for both and also making sure Palestinian refugees can return but also making sure that no war errupts between Israel and Palestine after a two state solution (which is what most of the world supports) Also one of the reasons (but not the only one) Palestinian refugees don't get citizenship is because the countries don't want to legitimize Israel expelling them which would encourage more of that but rather they want them to be able to return when an independent state is created

[@user-oy2zg3bt6n]

@@frasenp8411 1. but they are Palestinians, when Jordan was in control of the west bank there were marriages and movements that allowed Palestinian integration and sometimes later Jordan allowed some direct Palestinians to get citizenship, this made most Jordanians get Palestinian ancestors, like 60% or something like that. (they are also not that far off generically but besides the point) 2. if not wanting to legitimize the fleeing from the area is indeed a reason but it's definitely a more minor one, besides it's not like they didn't do worse to Jews in the Arab world yet Israel the US and France took them in. now that i think of that, we are in a pointless argument, agree to stop?

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

the "1967 borders" are a non-entity. Not a thing.

[@Earthlybeing396]

Palestine never existed

[@okman9684]

Why we call it the Middle East. Its literally middle of nowhere in a spherical globe 😑

[@Noric.Morava]

Because mediaeval and rennesance Europeans viewed todays turkey as east and china and mongol steps as far east. As such, this middle area became known as middle east.

[@desichalkos5627]

Giving the region around lake Van to the kurds is as indefensible as the current status quo. That land was Armenian in every sense of the word until the genocide, and giving it to the kurds is just rewarding them for the massive role they played in said genocide (and the Assyrian one, too). As far as i'm concerned, their current persecution is punishment for being lapdogs of the turks. Does there exist a reality in which the Armenians don't get shafted at every opportunity?

[@zgramzhnisk3036]

Give it to them and they end up being almost a minority in their own country, the region bordering Armenia and Lake Van has around 2-2.5 million people, Armenia itself has a population of 2.7 million. You would be creating a country where half the land and the population is not even Armenian, which would be unstable af.

[@Lockfly]

So what? There's millions of Kurds there now and there's nothing to do about it. Kurds have also proven themselves to not be ethnically cleanable Saddam certainly tried and failed very badly.

[@RK-cj4oc]

​@@LockflyThe Turks " cleansed" plenty a few years ago.

[@sarantis1995]

The only viable alternate history for a strong Armenia is the Wilsonian Armenia but we missed this chance, didn't we? 🇬🇷 🤝🇦🇲

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

So you want to destabilize Armenia by giving them a massive “minority” that would be like 30+ percent of the population of the entire Armenian state because historically… Historically A controlled area B is a stupid argument that is illogical and ignores such thing as the actual situation.

[@user-xp5id1kh4r]

@1:30 looks like an Elephant rearing on its hind legs

[@mohammadhazraty2372]

We all know how peace can be achieved, and it's with Persia, Ottomans, and Mamluks

[@theyakamoz1]

RIP Assyrians not mentioned :(

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

If only the Baath party did not go completely insane. Oh well lmao.

[@crusader2112]

Thoughts on Antoun Saadeh?

[@PatagoniaAries]

Sometimes it be like that At least al Assad is still alive

[@crusader2112]

@@PatagoniaAries Can't Mossad the Assad! Hehe

[@MegrelMamba]

​@@crusader2112I miss when people with European descent didn't d-ride muslim leaders

[@baconmikee4400]

Probably one of your worst border redrawings, you could've done better I know you could.

[@Izanagi057]

Explain

[@a3cools115]

He’s a zionist so no

[@rlmartinez26]

His solution is to remove the Palestinians from Palestine in favor of Israel is that enough?

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

@@Izanagi057There’s just some weird decisions I believe, like why turn Iran into the neo-Persian empire, it’s just a weird decision. Giving Cyprus to Greece is a bit strange, and Turkey lost Turkish lands to the UAR. The Egyptian coast being independent is pointless and his idea of a two state solution sees Israel get all it land and more and the he just tells the Palestinians to just move to Jordan.

[@datdumbguy1067]

Middle East belongs to Albania. Give it all to Albania, except Kuwait, they stay.

[@samankucher5117]

lets gooooooooo

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Suggestion: What if Greece realized the Maegeli idea?.🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@user-uo8gw2li2q]

Hypothetical situation The Greeks elect an extremist as Prime Minister, they prepare themselves for a war, they invade Turkey and begin to carry out a genocide of Turks in Istanbul and other Turkish cities and regions. Do you really think that the international community would support the Greeks if they try the Megali Idea, the Greeks will be seen as villains and the Turks as victims (I am neither Turkish nor Greek).

[@sarantis1995]

You'd have a bigger Greece and a very angry Turkey. Britain wouldn't allow it though

[@olbiomoiros]

@@sarantis1995true. Britain France and the US wouldn’t. But what would be the case today, not just about Greece, but any other country. Britain and France are gradually being reduced to average European countries.

[@sarantis1995]

As a Greek, I see this as an absolute win

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

I’m just glad he didn’t do something stupid like say Greece should get Constantinople.

[@meina0614]

@@kylezdancewicz7346it should.

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

@@meina0614 Oh really, because theirs more Kurds living there then Greeks

[@meina0614]

@@kylezdancewicz7346 i wonder why. Also most western Anatolians are just islamicized/turkicized Greeks anyway.

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

@@meina0614 So your saying Greece could get the city based off nothing even though barely any Greeks live there anymore

[@adamhenrywalker]

How about no borders? Just one big country?

As an Arab i giggled a bit ngl. Forcing Turks,Arabs, Jews, Kurds and Persians to live in one country is never going to happen. We arabs don´t even like eachother (ex. Lebanese christian vs. Lebanese muslims in the 70s/leb civil war or sunni and shia arabs)

[@parlyramyar]

How come Kurdish areas of mahabad and mukryan and ardalan regions are given to Azerbaijan and Iran? They are neither azeri turkish nor shia🤔

[@iggymag]

This just seems to me like another batch of poor borders made by someone who has not lived or is from the middle east

[@JF-rh5vq]

never let this guy cook again

[@kieranthomas8190]

I don’t see the point in splitting off the Southeastern coast of Egypt, considering that it’s mostly Sunni Arab, just maybe with a higher portion of Coptic Christians. I could see a case for an independent/autonomous Sinai state though considering the unrest in the region. Also, the Jordanian-Israeli solution makes sense, but neither Egypt nor Jordan wants to accept Palestinians because they’re too radical. Look at what happened in Black September. But maybe in this world Palestinians are more content on having a Palestinian/Hashemite state on the East bank of the Jordan River (which seems unlikely).

[@anthonylandin6788]

No Matter how the borders are drawn the region will fall to into chaos with groups still fighr for more land

[@zionmolina3039]

Could it be? I don't think it possible.

[@Guacamoc]

Turkey: Absolutely fucking not

[@hreedwork]

I think i remember you making this video when you were reviewing games. Very good method to explain ideas! 😎👍🙏

[@firemangan]

The people at funeral homes gona be making big money

[@deathsquad8891]

>gets to Palestine and Israel I am sure these comments will be civil.

[@MegrelMamba]

Dear România, Annex Serbia, Bulgaria, and Hungary 🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@that1dudeintheinternet]

Dear Romania, Stop making vampires in your country.

[@Ali-bu6lo]

I don't have much comment on the other parts but the Iranian section seems very inaccurate to me. 1) "Balochistan has more in common with Pakistan", What??? Pakistan has far more problems with Balochi separatism than Iran has ever had and Balochi nationalism is far more stronger there. Not to mention that based on observing the massive protests in Balochistan that happened in late 2022 alongside the rest of the country the Baloch population of Iran are patriotic and loyal to Iran but against the Islamic republic, this sentiment is seen both among the general population and their leadership such as Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi. Sunni Kurds of Iran do have a historic ethno-nationalist movement but even among them there has been signs of change towards acceptance of Iranian national identity, which brings us to the second point. 2) Iran has a strong civic nationalism that transcends the ethnic differences and is strongly rooted in history (just take a look at Shahnameh for example), I don't understand why westerners, of both left and right have a tendency to disregard this and imagine Iran as either some Yugoslavia to be broken apart or a state that can only be held together by religion. 3) Keeping Iran as a Shia theocracy is not gonna make it stable. Almost 50 years of the "theocratic republic with a supreme leader" has secularized Iran far more than any other country in the region and there are even signs of Islam itself being in decline.

[@georgesoros4223]

I stopped at Jordan assuming responsibility for the Palestinians, the Jordanian did try to do that and in return, hundred of Jordanian police and armed forces were killed in an attempted overthrow of the Jordanian king. The Jordanians will never forgive nor forget what the Palestinians did.

[@israilkolas5853]

I mean Hatay, Adana and Antep are mostly Turkish though not Arab

[@Pyxis216]

Bahrain in this map is too op for its size due to oil and gas. While Iran lost alot of its oil producing region to Iraq.

[@lilSaltee]

Please complete the series! Europe, Africa, s america, central america, canada, rest of asia, oceania, etc

[@A_foranonymous]

A guy on youtube did what two huge empires couldn't 😂

[@JonathanSladkoTV]

Most of this sounds pretty good, but turkey would absolutely hate this lol

[@matthewmoser1284]

I'm a big fan of creating several different types of maps which focus on a single homogeneous zone. Separate maps for resources, defensible terrain, water, arable land, languages, religions, and ethnic divisions. Then overlay each map to find regions which have a balance of things like arable land, water and resources, but which compose the vast majority of the population having the same language, culture, and religion. The first part prevents resource wars, while the second reduces internal strife.

[@Noah-qp6oe]

The point that Israel wouldn’t of survived without international support is wrong, Israel fought 3 wars with relatively little international support (in the early days, 48 67 73) and that support was balanced out by counter international support in the form of the USSR.

[@Dyache2]

you should do South Asia next

[@ragingnoah]

Now do this with the Balkans

[@1650th]

I do not want another world war

[@TheTrex9000]

@@1650th Austrians learned this the hard way

[@Gruyntake]

*Greeks watching this video : 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@Geomaverick124]

I agree with the exception of cyprus. Either it stays split or its given to Turkey...Turkey winds up not only losing territory but gets boxed in by Greece which will cause tension.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

10 minutes seems abit short for the number of changes shown.

[@alecnygard1769]

Thank you I’ve been missing your more traditional alt history videos so much!

[@MonsieurDean]

youtube.com/@DeanMonsieur?si=tgkyUuHE3lDkWqtn

[@DarkSora12892]

I think alittle more labeling would definitely help those of us with minimal knowledge on the region

[@tengiz]

Well I'd never think that I would see someone creating worse borders than British

[@williaminnes6635]

*sips Sykes Pekoe tea* I'm sorry, old boy, the western borders of Iraq are not up for discussion.

[@MonsieurDean]

(Blitzes London)

[@bnbcraft6666]

I noticed you have Nagorno-Karabahk to Azerbaijan 🤨, that region was entirely Armenian before September 2023

[@MonsieurDean]

And now?

[@bnbcraft6666]

​@MonsieurDean should the Armenians not be allowed to return home without fears of genocide in this hypothetical scenario?

[@MegrelMamba]

​@@bnbcraft6666I guess this map is entirely based on what the ethnic lines are currently. If he based it off of historical interpretation it would need much bigger pre-planned research.

[@bnbcraft6666]

@MegrelMamba he give ethnic Turkish parts of southern turkey to Syria

[@MegrelMamba]

@bnbcraft6666 Oh I just noticed

[@pjthehomelessmage]

The new Sykes-Picot

[@syphonie]

can you do every continents borders redrawn??

[@theuniverse5173]

The comments are going to become fun

[@MonsieurDean]

Fun is Fumb

[@that1dudeintheinternet]

Heheheh, yeah

[@stevejohnson3357]

I noticed changes to the borders of Yemen but don't remember hearing about it. It has been an area trouble by religious divisions for a long time but how would these new boundaries change that?

[@Zooollieg]

🎶 I like to eat eat eat apples and bananas 🎶

[@that1dudeintheinternet]

Same

[@david_n_nettey]

My family is from Ghana. I would love to see you do Africa next

[@j.m.d.a1496]

It should be divided into Greater Israel and Greater Kurdistam

[@Omnigreen]

Was it too hard to put names on countries?

[@flaxbadas]

You make it worst ☠️

[@zigzag4273]

Why would Egypt give it's Red Sea coast any autonomy? I don't get it. There isn't a separatist movement, insurgency or anything that warrants autonomy. If anything the autonomy should be granted to the Nile Delta.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content z! Keep up the good work ❤❤❤❤❤

[@MrAmhara]

You don’t even know what the “ Middle East” is if you have a map of the “ Middle East “ including Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan ect.

[@talesferreiralimadossantos8806]

These countries have close relations with some nations of the "true" Middle East, so that's why they were involved.

[@samankucher5117]

that makes it the greater middle East .

[@dudua3755]

This video makes me remember that unless the guy is a doctor of middle eastern history, no one will never understand the middle east like a middle easterner. FFS.

[@ayyybob]

As an arab, my only problem with this map is that it makes the perfect opportunity for a cold war between Iran and Saudi Arabia to happen, which is...not good...at all... Also, i think the two-state solution is much better for the jews and pals than the one-state solution

[@josephfriedman1305]

He is saying that Jordan is the 2nd state in the 2 state solution.

[@MonsieurDean]

You already have a much worse Cold War between the two. At least this will cease the largest land and power disputes between them.

[@ayyybob]

@@MonsieurDean okay you got a point, but I feel like the whole "mini autonomous states" thing would give Iran and KSA too much land, and will also make the gulf very divided and open to conflicts

[@ayyybob]

@@josephfriedman1305 I think the pals wouldn't want to leave their home and go to Jordan, plus I don't understand how israel and Jordan become best friends in this timeline it just doesn't make any religious, historical or beneficial sense

[@Chr0n0s38]

​@@ayyybobThe bigger issue is Palestinians are anti-monarchy. They actually assassinated one of Jordan's kings a few decades ago.

[@faulttix]

could i suggest u make a playlist of ur redrawn borders videos? also amazing video!

[@alibouaichi547]

Bro made it worse 💀

[@rosscalverley]

What if New Zealand-Lebanon existed?

[@mr.turdlybird4387]

Did you say Kurds have no desire to be independent

[@K-Talks217]

I think although this could be ethnically right, We also need to consider that natural resources should be evenly distributed or else more conflict will occur in the region. The reason why these borders are so highly contested because of their natural resources that they possess like Oil and Natural Gas. Also, I think the USA played a large in creating instability in the region while trying to bring peace in the region as well.

[@miladd237]

Hey your fellow Iranian viewer here and I love your overall content. This one’s pretty inaccurate though. But I don’t blame you,the Middle East is one of the most complicated regions in the world after all.

[@only_IL]

saudi arabia turned into a void ;c

[@riverasamuel911]

I love these videos. I wonder if south america would be interesting to make, because it would be either 1 super state, back to Spanish empire viceroyalties or further breaking down all countries lol

[@zeinnanla5422]

Merely splitting Shia and Sunni isn't really a solution when the mere existence of Sunnis and Shiites isn't what's sparking conflict. A pan-Arab secular union of states as was promised to the Arabs before Sykes-Picot seems like the most reasonable option.

[@AlexVictorianus]

But why keep the Islamist regime in Iran? A secular constitutional monarchy would be better.

[@alibouaichi547]

Both Shias and Pahlavis are horrible

[@The_Real_Grim_Reaper]

I think Balochistan would work better as a part of the Persian empire either as a client state or autonomous region rather than given to Pakistan.

[@desertboi2972]

This is gonna be a fun be💀💀

[@PhilipLaSnail]

As an Israeli, I see this as an absolute win. A free Kurdistan?! A democratic Jordan?!? A weaker Syria?!?! OUR HOMELANDS NOT BE THREATENED BY TERRORISTS?!?! That is a wet dream for us.

[@uncle.tedkaczynski]

Terrorists? Define terrorists since y’all keep attacking us since 1948

[@khurramzafar]

Uh oh, here comes the Nazi calling the Resistance to Apartheid as terrorists! Everyone step back, the Fashy boi's got some hard opinions!

[@kfiraltberger552]

As an Israeli, I kinda approve of your solution, also, there's no possible way it can happen. I can't see Jordan deciding to allow Palestinians into it's state, the fear is from a Palestinian terror organization toppling the Jordanian monarchy and establishing a state more aking to the Iranian theocracy. Meanwhile, Gaza being given to Egypt could've been a genuine possibility, imho. Much less likely to topple down the Egyptian government, and please for the love of god make Gaza not our fucking problem to deal with

[@silver14626]

why gaza people are very stupid

[@Altair-El-Haddad]

As an eastern european* you mean.

[@a3cools115]

Your people are evil and people are starting to wake up to your kind

[@user-zq5gh8zl3c]

The Israeli government should just annex Gaza and kick out the muslims or at least the troublesome muslims.

[@Chr0n0s38]

It might make more sense for a deal to be made for the UAR to absorb the inhabitants of the West Bank, though even that isn't a clean solution. It's almost like forcefully evicting a population from homes they've lived in for generations is a bad idea that Israel will be forever stuck with. Maybe Israel should just grant them full citizenship and let the Palestinians have a fair say in policy. Surely they wouldn't seek revenge for their treatment by the IDF....

[@Bub_rentaran]

As soon as I saw this video I got so worried it woulda been flooded with haters

[@inductivegrunt94]

The mistakes of past empires fixed thanks to present hindsight. And this is why the local population should dictate their borders and not greedy imperials not even on the same continent. Not a perfect map, but a better one than the middle east we have today thanks to British and French meddling.

[@Godzillaminusone70]

but local peoples deciding there borders leads to conflict over who owns what lands neither works there are issues on both sides example Israel Palestine assuming these two populations made borders for them self's they would most certainly both claim the others land.

[@alexanderjaruk]

This is going to work SOOOOOOO well, just like the last five-hundred times we tried shit like that...

[@user-ov5nd1fb7s]

Greece is in Europe, not the middle east.

[@MonsieurDean]

But the Middle East should be in Greece.

[@RK-cj4oc]

​@@MonsieurDeanWhy?

[@MonsieurDean]

@@RK-cj4ocAlexander

[@ronanmahaffey2996]

Nah. Give it all to Britain.

[@user-gc9sw2ym9z]

this border gave me an aneurism

[@JosephBelfort]

this map is pain