* Taken from an earlier article I'd written
I want you to go any international news website and pick out the troublesome nations. Nations like Burma, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine and Israel and you'll notice one thing. They're all former members of the British Empire.
Blaming the British Empire for everything going wrong in the world isn't a cheap shot. Its reality. The Chinese still hates the UK over the Opium Wars in the mid 19th century and the Aussies still resent the Brits for their low population*. Another good reason for blaming the Brits for everything is simply because it's all too easy.
For instance, Zimbabwe. Slam two major ethnic groups together (Shona and Ndebele) plus whites from Devonshire who can't quite belong and are also very trigger happy and you get a messed up nation. Taking cues from South African neighbours, a sort of apartheid developed there and of course a black rebellion started across Southern Africa. Robert Mugabe who strained under white, colonial rule got power in the end and went mad. Everywhere he saw the treacherous Anglos pinning to get White Rhodesia back. A Briton might say "Wot do I got to do with it mate?". Everything of course. Your nation caused Zimbabwe. It made the pseudo-nation itself built on the whites. When Mugabe chases the whites out, his Zimbabwe falls. Fitting I suppose. Playing favourite to a foreign minority always gets you nowhere. Zimbabwe is now a stumbling state where 1/4 of its citizens now live in South Africa. Bread costs 70,000 dollars due to hyperinflation not seen since 1920s Germany.
Iraq, oh Iraq. Created by the Brits to please their Arab partners who helped chase the Turks out of the Mid-East it was the amalgamation of Arab Tribes both Shi'a and Sunni plus Turcomans, Assyrians and Kurds ruled by Saudis. When Iraq rebelled in 1941, Churchill gassed them. When Saddam gassed Kurds, the West and Britain cried foul. "You can't do what we did! It's not just!"Well, it's not just if you're nation is on the world second largest oil supply. Churchill died peacefully in 1965 at the age of 90. Saddam was hung by a Shi'a gang last year. Iraq is now a bloody mess teetering on Iranian domination.
The list goes on! Pakistan's North West Frontier is overrun with Pashtuns not seen since the British Empire. Burma's military government only exists because the British didn't want another fight immediately after World War II, yet it fought in Malaya against ethnic Chinese who're now persecuted by the Malaysian government. Nigeria is mess with Christians and Muslims slaughtering each other over oil, Britain's Palestinian problem is now America's War on Terror, Kenyans tried to kill each other because there's around 40 ethnic groups in their country compared to Britain's 3 or 4. Britain crushed Iran's only Democratic govt which led to the overthrow of Mossadeq, to the Shah's reign and now the Ayatollahs. Britain's defeat of the Boer Republics in Southern Africa gave rise to Apartheid etc etc etc etc
I even scoff when Britain tries to make a case about Tibet. Francis Younghusband led Gurkha and Sikh troops to conquer Tibet for no goddamn reason. After all, there's no monetary value in that backward region of Himalayas. He killed thousands. When the Chinese invaded, they treated the surrendered Tibetans with respect. When Tibetans surrendered to Younghusband, he being the crazy 19th Century Anglo he is massacred them. I even scoff at Tibetans, they once had an Empire! They conquered the Chinese capital Chang'an around the 7th century. They even ruled the Bay of Bengal for a while.
They have no right to complain. Who even knows how many ethnic groups the British killed in the Australia, the Americas and Africa. I'm pretty sure Reagan's Evil Empire was the British Empire, even though Thatcher's toothy smile concealed it.Let's hope Britain does continue this bloody tradition. A war in Iran seems certain and a rematch to the Anglo-Persian wars would be a good one. Or another Falkland War would warm my colonial heart. Boer War redux anyone?
God Save the Queen! -clink-
I want you to go any international news website and pick out the troublesome nations. Nations like Burma, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine and Israel and you'll notice one thing. They're all former members of the British Empire.
Blaming the British Empire for everything going wrong in the world isn't a cheap shot. Its reality. The Chinese still hates the UK over the Opium Wars in the mid 19th century and the Aussies still resent the Brits for their low population*. Another good reason for blaming the Brits for everything is simply because it's all too easy.
For instance, Zimbabwe. Slam two major ethnic groups together (Shona and Ndebele) plus whites from Devonshire who can't quite belong and are also very trigger happy and you get a messed up nation. Taking cues from South African neighbours, a sort of apartheid developed there and of course a black rebellion started across Southern Africa. Robert Mugabe who strained under white, colonial rule got power in the end and went mad. Everywhere he saw the treacherous Anglos pinning to get White Rhodesia back. A Briton might say "Wot do I got to do with it mate?". Everything of course. Your nation caused Zimbabwe. It made the pseudo-nation itself built on the whites. When Mugabe chases the whites out, his Zimbabwe falls. Fitting I suppose. Playing favourite to a foreign minority always gets you nowhere. Zimbabwe is now a stumbling state where 1/4 of its citizens now live in South Africa. Bread costs 70,000 dollars due to hyperinflation not seen since 1920s Germany.
Iraq, oh Iraq. Created by the Brits to please their Arab partners who helped chase the Turks out of the Mid-East it was the amalgamation of Arab Tribes both Shi'a and Sunni plus Turcomans, Assyrians and Kurds ruled by Saudis. When Iraq rebelled in 1941, Churchill gassed them. When Saddam gassed Kurds, the West and Britain cried foul. "You can't do what we did! It's not just!"Well, it's not just if you're nation is on the world second largest oil supply. Churchill died peacefully in 1965 at the age of 90. Saddam was hung by a Shi'a gang last year. Iraq is now a bloody mess teetering on Iranian domination.
The list goes on! Pakistan's North West Frontier is overrun with Pashtuns not seen since the British Empire. Burma's military government only exists because the British didn't want another fight immediately after World War II, yet it fought in Malaya against ethnic Chinese who're now persecuted by the Malaysian government. Nigeria is mess with Christians and Muslims slaughtering each other over oil, Britain's Palestinian problem is now America's War on Terror, Kenyans tried to kill each other because there's around 40 ethnic groups in their country compared to Britain's 3 or 4. Britain crushed Iran's only Democratic govt which led to the overthrow of Mossadeq, to the Shah's reign and now the Ayatollahs. Britain's defeat of the Boer Republics in Southern Africa gave rise to Apartheid etc etc etc etc
I even scoff when Britain tries to make a case about Tibet. Francis Younghusband led Gurkha and Sikh troops to conquer Tibet for no goddamn reason. After all, there's no monetary value in that backward region of Himalayas. He killed thousands. When the Chinese invaded, they treated the surrendered Tibetans with respect. When Tibetans surrendered to Younghusband, he being the crazy 19th Century Anglo he is massacred them. I even scoff at Tibetans, they once had an Empire! They conquered the Chinese capital Chang'an around the 7th century. They even ruled the Bay of Bengal for a while.
They have no right to complain. Who even knows how many ethnic groups the British killed in the Australia, the Americas and Africa. I'm pretty sure Reagan's Evil Empire was the British Empire, even though Thatcher's toothy smile concealed it.Let's hope Britain does continue this bloody tradition. A war in Iran seems certain and a rematch to the Anglo-Persian wars would be a good one. Or another Falkland War would warm my colonial heart. Boer War redux anyone?
God Save the Queen! -clink-
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