Suppressing Tanzimat was the single stupidest decision the Great Powers could have made. The second-stupidest was to use Middle Eastern Christians as proxies to insert their imperialism into the Middle East. Hence the moment the Europeans were forced to skeedaddle, well, the Christians had already been the ones that let the bastards in.....
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Suppressing Tanzimat was the single stupidest decision the Great Powers could have made. The second-stupidest was to use Middle Eastern Christians as proxies to insert their imperialism into the Middle East. Hence the moment the Europeans were forced to skeedaddle, well, the Christians had already been the ones that let the bastards in.....