I’m rereading Paul Scott’s great opus The Jewel in the Crown as well as watching the remarkable television show based upon it. For those who don’t know it, it’s a quartet of novels about the British in India during WWII and the end of the Raj. One of the most painful examinations of colonialism ever written.
When done, take a gander at the Brits actions with China especially the opium wars.
There is almost no problem in the world today in which one cannot find its root somewhere in the old empire.
As far as the brits Navy went, it was hardly the US that put it at a disadvantage to the Nazis in the Atlantic and the Japs in the Pacific prior to WWII. If it were not for the sea supply of Britain by the US before and during our involvement in WW2, they would have folded.
As far the the US doing things in its interests, so what? That was how we USED to do things. Today we wring our hands over things we do based on how other nations view them. What a change.
For grins watched Patton last night, again. Watched A Bridge Too Far last week. Put them together and you get a clear picture of their land fighting IQ. I do respect Gen Alexander of theirs from WWII, but surely not Montgomery.
Master piece theater has a great show that aired last year called “Indian Summers.” A show taking place in the early 1930s in British India.
Season 2 will come out this summer