Perhaps the British would have been wise to resist the urge to colonize every place they could.
Posted on 08/06/2024 9:03:30 PM PDT by sushiman
By 1913 the British Empire covered 35.5 million sq km or 13.7 million sq mi (24 percent of the planets’ total land area).
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The sun never set on it.
In a few more decades, the sun will never rise on it.
Interesting number. For perspective, the US covers 9,857,306 square kilometers. A few times larger. :)
Today the sun never sets on the British propaganda empire—and the whole world knows they are liars.
It was Winston Churchill who explained that his nation was protected by a “bodyguard of lies”.
The West became addicted to Hopium and Wokaine.
ERROR!!! Sorry, missed a decimal point. Need to clean my glasses!!!
In 15 years, the UK will be lucky to still include Scotland and Wales
WWI, WWII and then socialism destroyed it.
Many of the problems in the UK today come from immigrants from former British colonies - Pakistan, Bangladesh, Rwanda, etc.
Perhaps the British would have been wise to resist the urge to colonize every place they could.
WWI was the fatal error that started the disastrous chain of events.
That war was totally avoidable as it was a family feud among relatives.
To send the finest young men of the British Isles off to fight and die or be badly injured or gassed was insane. What was sicker about it was the massive propaganda that convinced them it was the patriotic thing to do.
Those young men were played by an evil Royal Family and rest of the government...and of course we now know it solved nothing...in fact made everything in Europe get a lot lot worse.
What was wrong about spreading stability, enlightenment and prosperity?
It sounds strange today but I recall reading from authoritative sources, that when war broke out in 1914 there was rejoicing and celebration in the streets. Go figure.
>> What a difference 100 years make !
They abandoned CHRIST. It has not worked out well for them.
>> WWI was the fatal error that started the disastrous chain of events. That war was totally avoidable as it was a family feud among relatives.
I used to resist that idea as regressive BS. But now I am warming towards it.
>> In a few more decades, the sun will never rise on [the Union Jack].
Ouch. Instead it’ll rise on the crescent and star. Well, I hope not!
“It was Winston Churchill who explained that his nation was protected by a “bodyguard of lies”.”
Not quite. he wasn’t talking about his nation:
“In war-time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”[
“They abandoned CHRIST. It has not worked out well for them.”
That’s true, but isn’t it also true of the U.S.? ItChristian membership/participation/belief here may be a bit better than in the U.K., but it’s declined pretty badly here too. I think we could make the case that practicing/believing Christians are now a minority in the U.S. Certainly the widespread approval of abortion/perversion/marriage redefinition is indicative that most of our population too has abandoned Christ.
When the British left so did order and civilization.
Modern western minds usually fail to recognize the colonial period as merely an interruption to millennia of tribal warfare. Because the history of Western Civilization is written anything that is not “recorded history” does not qualify for that section of the library. Since the histories of most cultures and our own pre-history are oral and figural, they reside in the anthropology or archaeology sections to appear in geopolitical analyses as footnotes from less evolved periods.
When the colonialists left, these people groups unwrapped the gift of freedom to re-discover the pre-history norms of crushing civil wars, murderous political intrigues and pandemics of disease and starvation created by ruling elites from the ascendant tribes as they again strove for power and to extinguish their rivals.
Perhaps the British would have been wise to resist the urge to colonize every place they could.
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