Can maps predict the future | FT #shorts
Financial Times·2026-02-26 05:00
In 1914, an FT competition asked readers to predict what Europe's future borders would look like after the end of World War I. No one got it right. Why.Because by 1921, when the results were announced, borders had changed more than anyone [music] could have imagined. Germany and the AustroHungarian Empire, the so-called central [music] powers, had both lost considerable territory. Many FT readers hoping for an Allied victory predicted this.But what no one saw coming [music] was the Russian Revolution. This ...