If they could do it, why can't we?

I like how Oman is already just cut out of it.

I don't know where I was going with this but enjoy. Someone else can fill the rest.

None. New country called "Middle East", and oh boy will it make what we have now seem stable

And make it British 🇬🇧
+1 Independence Days
I'm down, let's add it to the Schengen zone tho

It says "no regard to history or ethnicity" but actually they were highly sensitive to ethnic differences when drawing borders.

They explicitly said the ideal was 3 ethnic groups inside the borders, with a 50:40:10 ratio. They would give power to the '10' in the minority, who would ally with their western oppressors to maintain their position of privilege. The '50' and '40', now the underclasses of society, would often devolve into sectarian violence.

Imperial powers found that this model gives them the maximum control over their colonies with the least amount of investment and intervention. It was brutally effective.

Pfft, easy. Just needs some good old fashioned American ingenuity applied to the problem.

I'm sure this one will work fine

Ngl, was hoping for outline of Saddam.
- If you squint hard enough, there's probably 3 saddams near Yemen

Give me a map of water systems and I will give you sensible borders.

I love this image. The choice of coloring schemes and the fractal nature of the patterns is mesmerizing.
So do all the watersheds that don't go to the seas just end in salten lakes?
Also, what's up with the areas with parallel lines? Open desert?
- The parallel lines are likely flood plains. I.e the water just spreads across open ground.

The best part of this exercise is the presumption that one corner of Africa isn’t part of Africa but rather the Middle East.

It’s arbitrary borders all the way down.

If you go down that route, the outer borders are of currently existing countries. "Middle east" doesn't have precise borders and the answer of where it is changed based on who you ask to.
Middle East is inherently a colonial term as it describes the area I'm respect to London, where places like India are in the Far East colonies, so these colonies are Middle Eastern.
Fully two separate continents, Northeastern Africa and Western Asia. But as far as names and identities go, Middle Eastern has stuck.
To be fair, there's nowhere in name Middle East that suggests it's restricted to a specific continent
- To this day I'm not entirely sure what continent Türkiye wants to be on

I propose dividing the area in a grid of 1m squares, and making each its own nation state. Then we wait...

Done

Can any geopolitical expert tell me what I've created?

Upper Egypt - Something that hasn't happened in thousands of years: Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt have been divided
The Greater Levant - mostly Arab but with many minorities, and the greatest religious diversity: sunnis, shi'as, catholics, jews, alawites, druzes, coptic christians, etc.
Greater Iraq - mostly shi'a, but with an important sunni minority, and various ethnicties: Arabs, Persians, Azeris, Kurds, etc.
The others - I don't know enough to say much confidently. I need someone else to chime in.
A powderkeg?
- As opposed to what it is now?
The United States of Oh Shit, Here We Go Again.

Erase the outside. Fuck your borders! 😄 (not at OP ofc)