What the fuck happened?

What the fuck happened?

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They chose the wrong side

This is the shit I don't get. UK won WW2, the biggest showdown in history and lost their empire for that?

Why they didn't get even more land for themselves?.

with jews you lose

The age of imperialism ended. We lost our empire, just like France, the dutch and Germany did. All for different reasons, all the same results. Britain broke with its empire in a fairly straight forward way. France on the other hand tried to cling to its empire and a shitstorm ensued which eventually led to the Vietnam war.

They had huge debts from loans and the African lands were just worthless. After the loss of India, they couldn't really profit from it.

good for France
you just folded like a house of cards

german blood is hell of a drug

If I am German I would hate hate hate Brits for what they did. Rejecting peace deals and starting the war that resulted in their own collapse.
Having Multicultural capital of Europe with Muslim Paki as Major and thinking they won the war hahahahahah

Because after world war 2 the US became the dominant power. A key part of US foreign policy was anti imperialism. The age of imperialism had ended and countries like Britain and Denmark understood this. The French not so much. In fact, I think the British empire was actually biggest AFTER world war 2 due to it being given Palestine and isreal to sort out. But by 1947, when it gave India independence, the age of empires had truly ended.

>t. History degree

>UK won WW2
>Not the Soviets

do you even history

No, we realised how worthless empires had become and cut our losses. France went and lost an embarrasing war in indo China to ame army of guerilla chinks. Learn your history, retard.

America stabbed us in the back desu

Power shifted from UK to America after WWII

Should also add in Britain's failed military campaigns in WW1 and WW2 damaged their image as a world leader. After WW2 Australia, Canada and New Zealand no longer looked to Britain as a leader and instead looked to USA to lead.

>go to war for no reason
>bank on the french hoping you don't have to do anything but they lose in a month
>promptly pull your army out of france leaving your ally helpless
>get your ass kicked in every theater until the americans come
>then act big and bad, terror bomb enemy civilians out of butthurt
>try to save face with market garden but it's a massive failure with thousands of casualties and hundreds of dead civilians with no gain whatsoever
>lose literally entire empire even though your side won
>become irrelevant

>giving up territory is cutting losses
sure Nigel
it had nothing to do with the US giving Churchill an ultimatum to decolonize.
Imperialism is just a term, the principle is always the same - the decay of an empire, the loss of its power, the eventual dismantling. The UK and France were the major powers during the 18th and 19th centuries and then it were USA and Russia. It will soon be India and China (but not as soon as they think)

They were too fucking merciful
Should have just killed everything in sight and took their land. For shame

Sold their souls to da joooos

>bank on the french hoping you don't have to do anything but they lose in a month

Well yeah, two world wars had really done a number on bother France and Britain's economies. Britain understood this loss of prestige and understood that it had to cut its losses and understold an empire was no longer an option. France, on the other hand, got invaded by Germany whilst STILL trying to maintain an empire. Take indo China (now vietnam). France were occupied by Germany whilst still maintaining it's dominionship over vietnam and other places like Algeria. You'd think after the centre of the empire being invaded they would give it up. But they still tried to cling to Vietnam after world war 2, and it was a complete farce. Literally the precursor to America's Vietnam war.

nobody likes the brits. they are smart enough to pretend to be on your side but to short sighted to rewrite history to erase their involvement in your current predicament

this is in regards to white people and dealing with the anglo. not even the minority take on them. brits pretend to not be the single worst group on the planet and always use misdirection to try to divert anger directed towards them at others

but they are few in numbers and are always beaten back eventually or simply out voted like with china. they arent more civilized. anglos are gib me dats . thats why they claim brits were black. they begrudgingly admit their own niggerdom.

they started shit with every one else or lied and promised them land in some other region they could never keep. where israel is now they had promised to give to the dutch , grench, arabs and germans

Kek

We did that in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and it didn't work, in fact they got their independence sooner than the rest of the empire

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Because they got in debt with the US and couldn't pay for their colonies

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Economic transition to corporatism meant you could retain domestic power and expand your wealth through ventures without actually having to have direct control over the places you operate in. And you also don't have to do all that expensive peacekeeping in the colonies. You can then exert your legacy power and influence to make sure the new governments operating in those regions do what you want anyway - or, in Britain's case, get one of your rich estranged former colonies to do it for you. Imperialism ended because it was better for the UK and those in power there that it did - it had become more trouble than it was worth. Romanticise the empire all you like, but that's basically the answer.

My Malaysian friend was talking about this with me the other day, and he says the reason we gave up Malaysia was because we were too weak to defend Malaysia from Japan after WW2, so it was easier to just grant them independence and focus on home interests. He was annoyed about this though, he's a real anglophile who loves the west, and has told me he'd like to be re-colonised. Also says the English were by far the best colonisers, and if you compare the countries who were English colonies with the ones who were colonies of other nations, it's the English ones which are always doing far far better.

You aren't refuting anything I said. As I said, Britain was aware of this. It was aware it could not maintain an empire, so it's decolonisation procedures were (mostly) quite smooth and kept face. France was the opposite and it was a complete mess. Britain lost its empire but made sure to give it up in such a way that it would not be a complete farce and save face.

Not sure why I'm talking to you, you're obviously pretty stupid and hiding behind a larping flag.

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Not trying to imply that.

"UK was on the winning side in WW2" is lengthier.

And now it's like

>Turkey
>Europe

They did the exact same shit everybody else did and would've done, except they had a big island that was difficult to meaningfully invade once they had their shit together, big population, plenty of resources and a convenient neighbouring island to hone their imperialist skills in without worrying about fucking up some powerful noble's land in the process. If the Brits were connected to mainland Europe, their history would've played out similarly to other regions the last 1000 years, but dat English channel tho.

You fucked us.

Americans single handedly won the entire pacific war and emerged as the number one super power of the world

Soviet Union literally crashed and their claim to fame is launching a dog into orbit

this world is so fucking gay

The English insisted much more on cultural assimilation, where other colonisers were largely satisfied with resource and labour extraction with basic language skills. The English also made sure to integrate the systems they established in their colonies to suit the local situation. They didn't just lift the home structure of government and impose it directly. They also made sure that the colonies were economically integrated with one another, trading between each other, instead of bilaterally with the UK. Some other countries refused to do this, fearing they'd lose control of their colonies if they could meaningfully interact with each other (which they eventually did anyway)

Every thing happening now is happening cause the eternal (((serb))) started the first world war. It allowed communist (proto-globalists) to rise to power, and paved the way for world war two, which allowed even more (Soros, etc.) to gain wealth and power, and the cost caused many of the colonies to want independence

too much infrastructural damage on homeland, unable to service colonies that are bordering independence.