The Bankers Who Carved Up the Middle East After WWI - And Why We're Still Paying for It скачать в хорошем качестве

The Bankers Who Carved Up the Middle East After WWI - And Why We're Still Paying for It

The secret agreement that broke the Middle East was never meant to be found. In 1916, two diplomats — one British, one French — divided the entire Arab world between their empires in a matter of weeks, without telling the Arabs who were actively dying for British promises of independence. That agreement was the Sykes-Picot deal. But the story behind it goes much deeper than two men with a map. This video traces the hidden financial architecture that made Sykes-Picot possible and permanent — the oil concessions that drove every British military and diplomatic decision, the Rothschild family's fifty years of land investment in Palestine that preceded and enabled the Balfour Declaration, the secret railroad of promises made simultaneously to Arabs, to Zionists, and to France about the same territory, and the Red Line Agreement that let a private oil cartel quietly manage the entire region's resources for decades without public knowledge. The borders of modern Iraq were drawn partly as the result of an oil company equity negotiation. The Balfour Declaration was addressed to a Rothschild for reasons that were simultaneously ideological, financial, and strategic. The Arab Revolt was funded with promises the British government had already decided not to keep. And none of the people living inside these newly drawn borders were ever asked what they wanted. A century later, the consequences are still being lived. #banker #ww1 #middleeast