JMA---you are right the consequences compared to now might seem to be minor in nature but it opens literally Pandora's box for all of Africa and still some areas in the ME and has a direct impact on the Ukrainian dispute.
If the world accepts the new borders then Putin's moves in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine are as well correct and no one can complain.
I am not against border changes in order to reflect a better understanding of what constitutes a country but there has got to be a method in place.
Meaning de facto yes now the regional ethnic borders of Iraq and Syria have been in fact redrawn---but not to a standard that eliminates futures disputes by the former country that is and or was impacted by the redraw---it opens up 50 years of turmoil into the future.
Not every country can pull off a split such as was done by the former Czechoslovakia by dividing ethnically into two new countries which by the way both are still economically struggling with.
That should be the model but no one suggests that for say Iraq and Syria.
As long as the Shia/Sunni thing is in play then nothing will in the end be settled.
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