Has anyone ever lost so much power so fast?I posit that no nation in human history has EVER shat the bed as rapidly as Britain.
>>518689985US in a few decades
>>518690096Fpbp
>>518690096Even without any global influence we would still be the third-largest country on earth and a large domestic economy. We just can't fall as far as britain
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>>518690096Man Imperial Japan wasn't that big
>>518689985Better to lose it than to never have it at all
>>518689985germany after ww1 got pretty raped pretty fast
>>518689985>Has anyone ever lost so much power so fast?No. Roman Empire was slow decline. British was sudden. WW1 then depression then WW2. Massively financially in debt to the USA. Everything crumbled.
>>518689985We (British expat here) started the Industrial Revolution and basically invented modern industrial capitalism. Other countries caught up and we have never fucking recovered.
>>518689985All that wealth went to international corporations.Spain used to exploit/rob huge amounts of gold from the Americas and in the interwar they were poorer than Romania.
>>518689985>no nation in human history has EVER shat the bed as rapidly as Britainbuddy, are you watching your own country???the irony on display is astounding ---- unless you were trolling and I guess you were, so fuck you, you got me. lolwell played
>>518690267Map is inaccurate for Romania. We trade more with the us than with china
>>518689985>Has anyone ever lost so much power so fast?Nobody lost anything. The colonial system was replaced by the G6 because it was way more profitable.
>>518690548As opposed to ugly raped?
>>518689985france
yeah rightthe UK still rules over Canada and Australia at the very least, look at their actual policy.. better yet, look for any country that thinks that Cannabis can cause Schizophrenia in an individual who didnt have it before.. youll see this an intensely british idea that makes little sense, much like lumping middle easterners in with asians
>>518690267America never had any trade hegemony. Throughout the Cold War the chief exporting nation of the world was West Germany. Their only challenger in this regard was Japan. When the Cold war was over China became dominant. America never was.
