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You my dear sir are full of shit.

Though the actual discovery of the oil was later, the geologist were sure of its existence and began negotiations on concessions with Arab states documented as early as 1911.

The first Kuwait oil concession agreement : a record of the negotiations, 1911-1934



Yep, the whole of Arabia was suspected of having oil, but where and how much was unknown. How was it possible to redraw the lines of government in a favourable way without this information?. Kuwait turning out to have 20% of the worlds's reserves was pure luck.

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Go on. Click. Why would they be negotiating an oil concession if they weren't confident in finding the oil?



They were staking their claims wherever they could in Arabia.

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If they did as the majority of the Arab population in the protectorate wanted and added Kuwait to Iraq



That's another bullshit assertion. Or do you mean the majority of the arab population in the Kuwaiti protectorate and Mesopotamian Mandate combined? If so, what exactly gave the Mesopotamians (Iraqis) the right to a say in Kuwait's future, when they had never been one country, merely both (disputed) subjects of the same empire?

I don't know why you're wasting your time trying to prove that the British Empire exploited the economic resources of it's subjects, because that's not in dispute, it was the main purpose of empire. You've shifted the emphasis completely from your original bullshit statement that I challenged. Let me remind you:

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Why not let an asshole English general chop off a small part of an area for an oil concession! Welcome to Kuwait!! Did he set up an area for the Kurds? No. Did he divide off the Sunnis from the Shi'a? No. But for an oil concession he took away the areas richest asset and made sure it was protected - because God knows they couldn't do it on their own - even in '61 the Brits ran in there. An unstable internal mess of a country is the best defense! But, people get bitter and look for other allies. Welcome Nazi Germany's bastard child: The Baath party!!!



This is utter bullshit. The border was agreed in 1913 Between rival empires. Britain didn't have the power to unilaterally redraw the lines because it didn't control both sides. Later, in 1920, it gained control of Iraq and could have tried to do this but left things as they were.

You keep going on about what the Iraqis wanted, but you've given no explanation as to why this should have been taken into account. I repeat, Kuwait had been self-governing for centuries, and did not agree with the Ottoman claim of sovereignty. In light of that, it seems that incorporating the two countries together, as you propose should have happened, would have been an outrageous move. The fact that later on Britain got lucky with the oil claim is irrelevant, but this seems to be the essense of your argument - Britain profited, therefore Britain is responsible for the territorial dispute. In fact it only became a big issue for Iraq shortly after independence, when it was discovered just how much oil was in Kuwait. A slight touch of irony there - you're accusing the wrong side of fucking with borders to satisfy oil greed.

You, my dear sir, are the one who is full of shit.
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