Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ At the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThievesBanquet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThievesBanquet</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> coyly agreed to let <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> swallow <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Constantinople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constantinople</span></a>.</p><p>After the war, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kitchener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kitchener</span></a> worried that once Russia got Constantinople, it would use the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caliphate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caliphate</span></a> and plot to destroy the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a> Empire.</p><p>So he wanted to:</p><p>1. Cut a swath through <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mesopotamia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mesopotamia</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a>) into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a></p><p>2. Choose an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arabian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabian</span></a> Caliph, without regard to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shia</span></a>-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunni</span></a> divide in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Islam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Islam</span></a></p><p>He thought since <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mohammad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mohammad</span></a> was Arabian, so should his successor. This has rubbed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a> the wrong way<br>⬇️</p>