They were the last "modern" empire. They should have been solving problems , providing water and explaining hygene. Instead they stole relics and ivory and enslaved peoples that later they threw their hands up and said"Oh, these are just servants.."
Personal problems have existed for a loooong time. Natural disasters, national troubles. World problems though are a uniquely imperialist invention. From the present situation in Africa, Turkish civil wars, Israel/Palestine, India/Pakistan, most of the Middle East, the fall of imperial China and rise of communist China and by extension parts of the Vietnam and Korean wars, certain elements of the Cold War and creation of Stalinist Russia, a major post WW1 contributor to the conditions that led to the rise of Nazism and a failure to stop the arms build up and early Nazi advances hence a responsibility for WW2.... and let us not forget, the British are directly responsible for (with several opportunities to avoid) the creation of the United States of America, and thusly culpability in those problems stemming from the United States. But in fairness other players were involved in many of these things, and many couldn’t be known save for hindsight. But Britain did anal fist most of earth.
Derp. Joseph Stalin didn’t invent murder or genocide but that doesn’t mean he isn’t on the all star team when it comes to doing the deed. I suppose some of the tongue in cheek humor would be lost in in text, but I’d at least have thought the part that says “in fairness other players were involved...” might indicate that none of those are exclusively the fault of Britain. Britain, or no single entity carries sole responsibility for most any problem in any situation, but as the last line implies: they did spend a couple hundred years screwing almost the whole world over to get ahead. The fact they were not the first or the last doesn’t absolve any guilt or erase what has been done- especially when as stated- the echoes of those actions can be directly seen to this day.
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