“No piece of land is worth” I think that’s an underestimation of the role of property in conflicts whether between states or classes or among the marginalised. And the case of the Armenians, the Turkish genocide is in the collective memory. Enmity has a longer history in the “imagined community” than 30/40 years ago.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51