I think a lot of peoples got totally screwed when the ottoman empire was divvied up, and since. I could go with that as a reasonable start time.
This reminds event me of a political ad I saw long ago, I saw it run twice just prior to "sign-off" two nights in a row. It was so powerful that it was quashed by tptb. In the past I have searched for some copy of it online but have not found it yet, I don't know who created it, paid for it nor what it was called.
The scene is a bucolic landscape with rolling green fields while a voice-over delivers the message throughout. Two groups of three men dressed in 19th century high society garb, complete with bowlers, top hats and tails, approach each other as if intending to duel. They walk toward each other on a grassy hillside on a bright, sunny day. The narration explains that in less technically advanced times, conflicts were dealt with in the manner being played out on the screen, man to man.
The characters eventually reach each other and the camera shot zooms in to reveal that these are likely politicians of old. The two main characters of each group are elderly and their companions younger but adult. The narration informs us of the inequities of war, particularly that they are started by businessmen and politicians of an advanced age (or were commonly were back then) yet those who die in them are the young, in their prime, not privileged.
The men two men hand their waistcoats and hats to their attendants then they do indeed take do a duel, a fist fight and are soon grovelling around on the ground, grunting as they try to land punches. It isn't pretty as we see two old men engaging in this activity, as the narrator says,
"This is how wars should be fought, by those who start them." (Or something quite like that)
I have never forgotten that ad, it was near the late days of the Nixon admin. and my first votes cast as a young adult. To this day it comes to mind often when military madness rears its ugly head.
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