This division doesn't even make any sense. All of these places have wildly different characteristics and this grouping is a horrible way of dividing the country, all of these 5 countries would have lots of new problems
That's the goal. Break them in a way that makes them all fucked and likely to infight for decades or centuries. The British partitioning of India had the same intention. If you can't conquer, divide.
This division doesn't even make any sense. All of these places have wildly different characteristics and this grouping is a horrible way of dividing the country, all of these 5 countries would have lots of new problems
That's the goal. Break them in a way that makes them all fucked and likely to infight for decades or centuries. The British partitioning of India had the same intention. If you can't conquer, divide.
And if it precipitates a genocide, well, that's the cost of slightly weakening Russia and China.
just like Sykes-Picot