Your country's achievements should be worth 50% less if you are an island nation tbqh

Your country's achievements should be worth 50% less if you are an island nation tbqh

Continents are just bigger islands to be completely honest

Why?

Near invulnerability from invasions from other countries for most of history.

>Near invulnerability from invasions from other countries for most of history.
Are you clinically retarded?

Look at the majority of medium sized islands in the map you just posted and think about what happened to them

>britain was never invaded

None of those islands had actual states going for them though. I'm talking about actual nation-states versus nation-states of comparable development.

Fucking hell you're stupid.
I'm surprised this needs saying but whatever

The sea is NOT a magical forcefield which repels invasions. Countries which don't like you can and will send ships to attack island nations, this is how Britain was invaded many times by peoples including the Vikings, Dutch, French, Normans, Romans.

There is no magical forcefield. Japan has been defeated. The Philippines conquered by the Spanish. New Zealand by the British. All the Caribbean islands. Sri Lanka. Madagascar. The various islands around Europe.

No magic water shield protected them from enemies.

The UK stopped the invasions by building a navy powerful enough to defeat several enemy navies at once. That's where your "invulnerability" comes from.

Close this tab and go away, you're an idiot.

reduce by 50%
still more successful than everyone else

The only thing Britain it's good is being invaded

>New Zealand
>conquered

Top kek, you bribed the Maori with a few blankets and bottles of whisky and that was it

BTW how do you go from talking about "most of history" to "nation-states against nation-states" when nation-states have only existed for a tiny part of recent history?

It worked didn't it? The magic island sea shield didn't stop it becoming British territory

Dutch Empire moving up the ranks here.
Glorious days when we occupied London.

>the sea isn't a formidable geographic barrier against enemies
>sea invasions aren't 100x harder than land invasions

While Europe's powers spent most of history trying to rape each other Britain was able to distance itself from the conflicts on the continent and focus its energies on itself and its overseas empire.

In the case of Japan it was only occupied once, by the Americans, who nuked them because they knew how shitty an invasion would be.

>Caribbean
>Phillipines
>Madagascar
>pre-Norman Britain

I said of comparable development. No shit you're going to BTFO island tribes if you have a decent organized army.

Those goalposts are on the fucking move

>While Europe's powers spent most of history trying to rape each other Britain was able to distance itself from the conflicts on the continent and focus its energies on itself and its overseas empire.
No. That is wrong, Britain was never able to distance itself from conflicts on the continent. That's a lazy reading of history. They always came back to affect us greatly, even when we were not directly involved (like the Franco-Prussian War). But the majority of the time Britain was DIRECTLY involved in the wars on the continent.

And the only reason why we weren't invaded even more was the Navy. As I said, islands do not get magical force fields for defence. Water does not discriminate.

>In the case of Japan it was only occupied once, by the Americans, who nuked them because they knew how shitty an invasion would be.
An island nation was occupied by its enemy. The fact that it was an island didn't stop that from happening. They were nuked anyway.

>I said of comparable development. No shit you're going to BTFO island tribes if you have a decent organized army.
You said nation-states which made no damn sense because most of history nation-states didn't exist. But fine, there are still plenty examples of European countries grabbing islands from other European countries by way of invasion. Britain's invaders were of comparable development most of the time. The Americans took islands off another western country, Spain. How much more do you need?

Hola fellow former Spanish colony

DELET THIS

>Canada
>an achievement

>the saxons and normans never conquered perfidious albion

The invasion that really destroys OP's argument is the Saxon one(s), because they were arguably a less sophisticated people than the literate Romano-Britons who inhabited what is now England at the time.

But the Saxons, and the Vikings, had superior military tactics and more battle experience, and they had a relatively easy time invading large parts of this island

the thing is , we are the saxons

#REKT

You're the saxons, britons, and, in a lot of parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Norse.* You're a mongrelization of many accomplished culturally rich people that blended together over time to create an advanced and significant society. The UK, the US, Germany, Russia and other states have become so dominant specifically because their entire histories are histories of ethnic and cultural war which forged your souls in the fire of conflict. I think it's a great source of pride that you shouldn't forget.

Sorry, the asterisk was supposed to reference a post script in which I clarified that there is of course Norman influence culturally and linguistically, but it isn't as significant genetically as the others since they mainly served as a small upper class.

really muh heritage
really autistic

Canada you can't speak
>Surrounded by 3 huge as fuck oceans
>one of them is basically frozen
>the only land border you have is with USA

>only country that has ever invaded us is the USA

Fuck off till Autumn, leaf.

florida is an island nation