OK, I’ll go with the civil war with multi-nation support.
But anyway way you look at it, Britain did pretty darn good, being a small island nation.
Not only did they have colonies or possessions in every part of the world, they were so good at seeding their culture everywhere they went.
A post office in Calcutta looked just like one in London.
The same with police stations, hospitals or ministry offices.
It’s easy to see that the Age of Britain paved the way to the Age of America.
Just wish we had had the same “stick it out” mentality the Brit’s had back then.
Imagine the Korean peninsula united under representative govt.
The same with Vietnam.
If we had convincingly won those two, who in the world would screw with us?
I have always felt it was Truman’s fault. If he had let MacArthur loose in Korea there probably wouldn’t have been a Vietnam for Johnson to micromanage. At any rate, the biggest boondoggle of all was getting involved in the United Nations and especially their “police actions.”.