"The great globe itself and all which it inherit is too small to satisfy such insatiable desires"
Some things don't change. This is a painting in the 1800s with the two great superpowers, Great Britain and France, feasting and dividing the world. The globe is carved out and shared between them.
Our present day, it seems as though it is pretty much the same with the superpowers carving out the Middle East and Asia.
