What happened?

>>669900

The Eternal-Anglo simply became more subtle to fit with the zeitgeist of the times, now they control the world through skillful manipulation.

>>669928
>Nation of shopkeepers indeed

Napoleon was right.

>>669937

If Napleon was right he wouldn't be dead.

>>669945
>you have to invent to elixir of immortality to be right
I guess the Chinese were on to something.

>>669900
Because most places were started to oppose colonial rule and they realized that it's easier and more profitable to just control the world economy
>eurounion

That and direct colonial rule was pretty unpopular amongst the natives

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>>669900
The Eternal Germanic destroyed yet another era of unquestioned European dominance.

From Rome to Brussels; Martin Luther, The 30 Years War, Waterloo, WW1, WW2 and the EU no one can destroy European progress and power quite like a Germanic.

They lost control of their subjects through ineffective rule but pretend they willingly did it out of compassion

WW2 happened, what else is there to say

WW1 happened, what else is there to say

>>669949
you don't get a long lived civilization without knowing whats up

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What went wrong?

>>669900
basically they ran out of cash, the dominions wanted more autonomy the colonies vassals and protecterets were fed up with their rule and wanted them out pretty much the brits just let them go but because they set up international systems and institutions centered at England they were able to maintain hegemony

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>>669900
>What happened?
Asia decided a Co-prosperity sphere was best, and they were right.

>>669900
Perfidious Albion gets what it deserves

btw all empires are a mistake

>>670494
Portugal was too small and their colonial ambitions were based on trade, not conquest

>>670494
Habsburg inheritance

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The political monopolies of capitalism and socialism leads to the suicide of nations.

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>>670773
>btw all empires are a mistake
Not all.

>>670809
Not a Frenchboo or Napoleonboo, but those borders are GOAT

>>670809

(areas_of_influence)

>>669900
Gib malvinas

>>670773
Nah, there is no better world than an imperial and european world.

Indiginious nationalism

>>669954
Hitler is Austrian

>>671777
Austria is germanic

>>670494
>tfw no united low countries under a single catholic monarchy

>>672439
Nice meme, lad

Because empire is evil, edgelords.

We got soft

>>672439
scandinavia never destroyed europe sorry bruv

>>670845
Literally countries controlled by your family

>>672613
Not to mention that Napoleon was officially named as the head of state of at least the Confederation of the Rhine, Kingdom of Italy, and The Helvetic Confederation

>>669954
Wait; if you're a British nationalist, why do you say Martin Luther was bad?

>>669954
>EU
>Not the only way to secure European interest.

>Immigrants
>Not the only way to keep us demographically competitive.

>>669900
What's that little red dot under south america?

>>673005

The Falklands.

>>672957
What do you mean by demographically competitive

>>671777
Was he ethnically Germanic?

>>669900
Britain first sailed around oceans and managed to break a spice monopoly making them wildly rich, they used all the money on wars and typical empire shit and then fucked up and let some colony rebel and couldn't actually take what they were dishing because ultimately their soldiers were too weak and military too poorly lead and ended up losing a whole bunch of money and tax revenue ensuring they would never rule the world

Britain then became jealous of German success and entangled themselves in not one but two wars that were not even directed at them and some fat piggy overconfident idiot sold the last of the Empire's assets to America in order to win them

that's all she wrote really

>>669900

WW1 & WW2

/thread

>>671777
Before 1955 Austrians considered themselves Germans. Today they are still just a German state that didn't join the federal union known as "Germany", and there is nothing wrong with that.

>>673394
When the Austrians Habsburgs were battling the Turks, were they called Germans?

>>673408
Yes, because German back then was an ethnicity with no single nation-state tied to it. That and the Habsburgs, as Holy Roman Emperors, were (theoretically) the suzerains of all German lands besides Prussia/Teutonic Knights/Switzerland. Franz Joseph considered himself first and foremost a German prince even after unification and the dissolution of the HRE.

>>671773
>European world

Perhaps

>Imperialism

No

>>669954
Merkel is Polish

>>669900
The world is secretly controlled by a council of the global elite, headed by Queen Elizabeth II. As such, the British now control all 196 nations, while skilfully deflecting blame onto pawns such as China and the USA.

>>670494

Napoleonic wars for spain

Time and population density doing his job for portugal