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. :)
The West became addicted to Hopium and Wokaine.
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.
>> What a difference 100 years make !
They abandoned CHRIST. It has not worked out well for them.
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.
Every July 4 I thank my Scottish pal for making independence days happen for hundreds of years!