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by ben_w 1273 days ago
The British Empire certainly did have a lot of experience of that, but it wasn't exactly good for the people on the ground where that had been done. One of those partition lines led to a 30-year low-intensity civil war that only ended in 1998: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles

Another now has both sides pointing nukes at each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India