U.S. Ambassador the Türkiye Tom Barrack slammed the legacy of the Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Great Britain to carve up Southwest Asia.
“A century ago, the West imposed maps, mandates, penciled borders, and foreign rule. Sykes-Picot divided Syria and the broader region for imperial gain—not peace. That mistake cost generations. We will not make it again,” Barrack wrote on his X account on May 25.
“The era of Western interference is over. The future belongs to regional solutions, but partnerships, and a diplomacy grounded in respect. As President Trump emphasized in his May 13th address in Riyadh, ‘Gone are the days when Western interventionalists would fly to the Middle East to give lectures on how to live, and how to govern your own affairs.’”
Many nations of the region, however, will find such promises hollow, at best, if the current genocide against Gaza is allowed to continue, and economic development in association with China is prohibited.
