>>510691844
>It rustles my jimmies that regardless of the reality on the ground, obsolete national borders in this region are dogmatically insisted upon.
>Neither Yemen Eritrea Iraq or Syria exist as portrayed in this map as nation states, and haven't for over a decade, longer in some cases. Fuck, neither does Georgia or Armenia. I don't know why it annoys me so much

Once you understand maritime law and jurisdictions, you will understand why boarders don't change on ethnic lines. Merchant empires subversively rule the world.