Originally Posted by
sean
The crimes committed by the British Empire have been vastly overblown compared to similar behaviour by other European powers. The Ottomans and other Islamic Caliphates have tried to invade, mass rape and conquer Europe for hundreds of years, and were infamous for raiding European countries for white European slaves. African nations and Islamic ones were infamous for mass slavery and genocide, such as the Mfecane period which were mass genocides of South African black clans by other black clans. According to recent genetic studies of ancient Africans continent-wide it was determined that the Bantu expansion literally deleted every other native African race, through mass migration and extermination.
The Qing dynasty of Imperial China genocided 900000 Dzungars in the 1800's, the majority of the world’s slaves were actually found in Africa and the Middle East. Ethiopia prior to invasion by fascist Italy had an apartheid system with Amharas as the ruling elite with 3+ million slaves. Mussolini abolished slavery in Ethiopia but it came back after WW2, only to cease again after heavy US pressure. The British Empire is literally the reason slavery is banned worldwide, because they went down the Red Sea and shoved guns into Arab slavers’ mouths.
Most of the planet welcomed Brits with open arms. It's a myth that everyone fights or resents against the dominant power especially one so benevolent as the British Empire.
Despite everything you may have heard and fifty years of propagandising by 'post-colonial' historians (i.e. coping non-whites and their wog allies) colonialism was never profitable. EVER. Colonialism was expensive as fuck and the vast majority of colonies were a net drain on the metropolis' finances. Britain made more money off of China without more than a few hundred square kilometres of territory than it did from the whole of Africa and the Caribbean put together. The British tax payer funded colonial militaries and each colony had its own budget which meant that it never sent a single bean in profit back to Britain.
The Empire left its colonies in a better state than other European powers. Five of the richest 10 countries in Africa and six of the world’s 10 richest countries were once either British colonies or British protectorates.
On the other hand, the Middle East has done jack shit for the world. The west has brought the world to it's current technological boom, which the rest of the world takes for granted.
No one wants you anywhere so you should just blow yourself up in some market in Germany and take some more towelheads with you.
You are mentally retarded. Germans were far more imperialistic than the British.
The German imperialist mentality over continental Europe manifested itself as the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War, German nationalism under Bismarck, WW1, genocidal WW2 Nazism and now through aggressive liberalism enforced through the EU.
Germany along with France has always been the disaster for Europe, right back from destroying the Roman Empire, to cucking to Charlemagne, to be enslaved by Habsburg Popery for centuries (only to be redeemed by Martin Luther's Protestantism), betraying their Nordic neighbours over Russia, bending over backwards for Bismarck, to exporting Communism to Russia, to starting WW1 and therefore WW2 which was merely a continuation of WW1, to the EU of today which is just a way to force poor Eastern European trash to buy expensive German products instead of making their own, thus pushing them to mass immigrate into Western Europe.
Otto von Bismarck played the French like a damned fiddle and caused the Franco-Prussian war creating Germany. But when it came to establishing the government system, Queen Victoria wife of Frederick III, advocated for a more liberal British system whereas conservative Bismarck advocated for a more authoritarian system. Bismarck won due to anti-British sentiment amongst the German nobles of the day. If the British system had been implemented British-German ties would have been stronger, the monarch wouldn't have fallen, Nazism never risen and rampant diversity bullshit wouldn't dominate today's political culture.
Germany, after its unification and before WW1 was very weak and very backwards. It often refused to follow the European trend of colonisation or economic and scientific development. The ethnic conflict between Slavs and Germans in Austria-Hungary made that impossible.
Had Bismarck made the push to occupy Vienna/the German Habsburg lands into the German Empire, the Reich would have truly lasted a thousand years, and the beauty of Germanic Europe preserved forever.
While Britain was having issues with German industry, Britain shifted their foreign policy around Germany but in a seemingly amicable way after a few continental congress' and conferences (notably the 1878 Congress of Berlin). Bismarck's policy of Germany as "The Continent for Germany, The Sea for Britain" was one that Britain seemed to get behind rather quickly as they shifted focus toward Africa and away from Europe in the 1880's and 1890's.
Kaiser Wilhelm II disrupted it by taking a few notes from Alfred von Tirpitz and thus shifting his focus from Continental Europe and to the Sea and his "Place in the Sun". Wilhelm II really ruined everything diplomatically, even if he had decent domestic policies. His aggressive stances on foreign policy meant that Germany was shackled to a corpse in WW1 (Austria-Hungary).
There was actually a time when Bismarck was still pulling the strings when the German Empire could have been allied to Great Britain. Then Wilhelm dismissed Bismarck and sent Germany on the path to destruction by demanding the creation of a massive navy, completely putting it at odds with Britain.
If it hadn't been for Wilhelm's endless meddling with his cabinets and forcing foreign policy to satiate his own ego and ideals, it is likely that the First World War would have been fought by completely different nations, possibly even avoided altogether.
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