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@julieofthespirits
I’m sure an actual historian would quibble, but in some ways, I think this conflict is far more like those conflicts of old than we imagine. It’s fundamentally a conflict over land, not ideology. (Religion is a catalyst, but not a cause.) It’s a conflict with modern origins, a territorial dispute that developed over the last ~100 years. 19th-century nationalism makes it unlike 1000 years ago, true, but it’s not so unique as we imagine.