IRAQ: A DIVERSITY SUCCESS STORY
When creating a new country, why not just stick loads of different groups in it? In fact, the more groups in it the better. If Iraq *does* have a problem it’s that it only has 3 major groups when it should have at least 10. Iraq is very successful
What we can learn from Saddam Hussein: Imposing a Universalist ideology on people that marginalises their identities is very popular
YUGOSLAVIA: A DIVERSITY SUCCESS STORY
A Country very progressively created with Ethnicities with centuries of historical grievances towards each other, when Strongman Rule collapsed Yugoslavia DID NOT fall apart and those Ethnic Resentments DID NOT devolve into War and Genocide!