The Sykes-Picot agreement represented a brief commonality of interests, like a truce among mafia dons. It was never implemented and became a dead letter. This has not stopped it living in infamy as an example of colonial greed, arrogance and lies. Today it is known to every Arab schoolchild, and raised at every opportunity to visiting British people (the Russians cleverly have managed to get themselves off the charge sheet).
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