It is simply astonishing how much our daily lives are still so closely linked to the First World War -- and even more so those of our dear Christian brethren in the Middle East. In 1915, during the war, Muslims in Anatolia would join hands to effect the first major genocide of the 20th century, as over 1 million Armenians, Assyrians, and Hellenic Pontic Christians were killed, and a good number were expelled to make room for the 99%-Muslim Turkish Republic we know today.
As it can be seen above, Aleppo, Mosul, Deir Ezzor, once again today brutalized by Islamic forces, were cities to which Christians were deported 99 years ago. The remains of the Ottoman Empire were divided by French and British, and, though many ideas were considered, a nation for Christians was never really effected in the border redesign -- the closest thing was Lebanon, but the slight Christian majority there did not last as long as it was thought it would. Many of the expelled Assyrian Christians from Anatolia would join their kin who had always lived in what would become Northern Iraq and Syria. The rest is history being made before our eyes.
The third and last part of Italian historian Roberto de Mattei's special article on the First World War shows how that "Jacobin War," in his words, reaches us powerfully even today in its mighty consequences.
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[Part I here]
[Part II here]