Literally everything the British did in the last 400 years was fucking GOLD they were literally the best in the world what the hell happened? went from Lebron tier to bench warmers in a generation
>>202702693>what the hell happened?half-american churchill dismantled the empire and sold it to the americans who utterly fumbled the ball
>>202702693The liberals in their own country finally convinced enough of them that colonialism is actually Le bad. Also changes in technology made it virtually impossible to maintain an overseas empire if the local population wasn't on board.
>>202703740>Also changes in technology made it virtually impossible to maintain an overseas empire if the local population wasn't on board.what do you mean
>>202702693>picDalrymple regularly calls the East India Company as a bunch of sniveling retards who threw the one Indophile president of the company who actually tried to help the natives for long-term sustainable profits and peace under the bus with a bullshit impeachment trial
>ywn be a member of the east india company in your twenties, fucking brown poon, making a shitton of money, retiring at 30, and returning to Britain to live in a comfy estate for the rest of your life and reminisce on your adventureswhy do I even get out of bed
>>202703740>the liberals convinced them that colonialism was le bad also changes in technology made colonialism le badUhm...
>>202704132>threw the one Indophile president of the company who actually tried to help the natives for long-term sustainable profits and peace under the bus with a bullshit impeachment trialbased
chillin like a fockin villain m8
>>202702693Two world wars mate. You yanks stayed out of them just long enough to pick a winner, force it through and come out on top of the world.
>>202705683Smart lads
>>202703838Terrorism works, if the population is committed to the cause and willing to die for it. Assassinations, bombings, targeting infrastructure etc. The only way you can defeat it is with genocide, forced resettlement or severe collective punishment which defeats the entire point of an empire (wealth extraction/man power extraction)
Got the old 'pression again