How did serious European colonial powers like France, the UK...

How did serious European colonial powers like France, the UK, and perhaps Portugal drop the ball so hard when it came to planning for a future in which they knew they would be without any significant colonies, where those colonies would even go as far as surpass their overlords due to their massive cheap supply of labor?

Even before WW2, it was known to the British govern that India's independence was a matter of time, mainly because it was a matter of time until the indians (and other poopskins) figured out how to use European technology well enough to compete with Europe on the free market with their dispensable population sizes. They also knew that feelings of nationalism grew inevitably, and that no matter how long you hold an area, and no matter how much you indoctrinate the people with your language and culture and religion, the desire for self determination always wins in the end, and suppressing it would only mean more money down the drain, as in the case of South America

Why didn't the governments of European countries do more to secure their place at the top of the food chain and prepare for massive losses in their tax revenue, human and natural resources, and overall control of the planet's economic organization?

Is there any way for europe to reinstate its hegemony on the world? Is something along the lines of picrelated the only way to do so? Is it even possible to unite Europe into a federation type system realistically without sacrificing much sovreignty?

because you (USA) happened

>Why didn't the governments of European countries do more to secure their place at the top of the food chain and prepare for massive losses in their tax revenue, human and natural resources, and overall control of the planet's economic organization?
they did, they were in a pretty decent state until germany united and tipped the balance of power in europe hard
>Is there any way for europe to reinstate its hegemony on the world?
no real easy way, no, too many countries are developing at exponential rates

there seem to be a trend of countries getting comfortable of their position in the world so they don't bother anymore and fall. that's happening in the western world currently

they fucked ur mom LMAO

no

Yeah, I noticed that after the 120th terror attack

Because what exactly could they do? Britain had known as early as the American War of Independence that even their Anglo-Saxon colonies would be breaking off eventually. There was a movement in the 19th century there to properly integrate Australia and Canada into the realm but nothing came of it.

to add to the question, what is europes future?

is it doomed to slowly become less and less competetive (even if they remove mudslimes) until they are basically forced to give up their sovreignty entirely to some shitty EUesque soulless organization in order to not be completely owned by nonwhites?

i guess they could have made an attempt at a scorched earth tactic when the soviet union was funding communist nigs so that they would be able to maneuver in a decolonized world

Why did Americans insist on slaves when it was clear to all at the time that it was unsustainable and would just fuck them over in the future?

History isn't planned like a 4x or paradox game where you're trying to min-max the outcome.

Idiot fucking American. Get AIDS.

hypothetically there were solutions.

Forcibly shipping the freed slaves to a couple of liberias would have made it not our problem, for one

another would have been to set aside some useless land for them to call a homeland

the thing that i found sad was that european political leaders KNEW that the only reason they were the hegemons was because of technology, which was inevitably going to be acquired by the subjects sooner or later

they could have done something, but instead they basically waited to see what happens and now are in the same geopolitical situation as they were in the 15th century

you monkeys managed to go from the most important country on earth to one of the least important in less than one generation. thats idiocy right there. you already have aids

>one of the least important
Yeah sure

>no colonies, so no significant natural resources
>population too used to high quality of life that they refuse to work in labor at competetive wages
>just left the EU, not that it was a bad thing, but obviously this weakens the british nation objectively because there are now less options for global influence
>dominion acts basically independently, might throw a bone here or there

right now the UK is a completely hollow shell of what it once was, basically museum tier.

Modern morality is incompatible with colonialism, independence was inevitable.

Are you saying we should have just wiped out our ex-colonies or something? I don't understand your point here.

The predominant Anglo colonies worked out fine even the melting pot of America did fine. It's just middle east and India aren't exactly smart enough to do things on their own.

Who cares,you live in a country of much more impredictabilities than mine,from natural disasters to criminal rate.Living in your wooden straw built house and posting on Sup Forums when you should be studying for your college that your parents have indebted from.
In Portugal we don't have to finish our bachelor with an over 10000$ to pay

>Create first world Anglo Nations with strong economies
>Nations helped Britain and France in the world wars even though they didn't have to (there was literally no way Britain could have stopped Australia, NZ and Canada breaking away in the 1930's)
>Strong trading partners that continue to elevate living standards in Britain today


They did pretty well, just not in India desu

i was referring to the time period between the wars, when the european powers already knew it was a matter of time until their subjects figured out how to use European organizational and military strategies/tech in order to realize their dream of independence

im saying they perhaps should have gone to greater steps to ensure that the non european nations they released would be so dependant on them economically that they would never really be free

similar to how america 'freed' the slaves, and replaced chattel slavery with private prisons that harnessed blacks' natural propensity for violence into meaningful dirt cheap labor under the guise of 'correcting' them