What went wrong?

>>2982201
brexit

>>2982201
Giving a shit about Belgium.

>>2982201

Like all empires before it, it had run it's course and was succeeded by newer powers.

>>2982201
World War II.
The Japs.
The Commonwealth
Not knowing how to control Punjabs and Muslims.

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>>2982201
Austerity in the 19th century combined with the rapid growth of Germany and the U.S.

They were in relative decline even well before WWI.

>>2982285
This is heart breaking

>>2982201
World War 1 cut the heart out of the Empire. Same with the French Empire too.

>>2982214
This.

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>>2982285
>America will never control 60% of the world's wealth again

>>2982872
desu that graph ends at 1940 and it probably went higher than that in the late 40s and into the 50s

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*blocks your path*
*put an end to your colonialism*

>>2982201
They went full socialist after the war (were still 'rationing' food till '55 and had prices fixed until the 60's). It destroyed what little economy they had left. They've actually survived amazingly well.

>>2982201
Germany throwing its corpse at Britain repeatedly led to its destruction.
The Krauts won the war after all....

>>2982872
This is the real tragedy.
Who gives a shit about the teaniggers.

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>>2982201
Lack of revolutionary activity