>country of 400 million people occupied by tiny island of

>>3324545
>country of 400 million people conquered by a somewhat large private company

>>3324545
>One is the crade of the industrial revolution and the biggest exporter of industrial products in the world.
>The other is a multiethnic premodern dungheap where people worship cows and shit on the street

>>3324548
>Country of 400 million
>got rekt by the fucking dutch

The British were very clever in their management of India. Through controlling states behind the scenes using Princes, who (thanks to the doctrine of lapse) were essentially puppets of the East India Company, who were in effect a government controlled monopoly.

They were able to put down the 1857 rebellion using clever divide and conquer tactics, such as wrapping guns in pig fat to prevent Muslim citizens using them, and playing princes against one another.

>>3324545
Simple, you empower a minority of the locals to oppress the rest for you. Then throw in minor meritocratic functions to give the idea that if the locals licked your boot enough, they'll be able to climb the social ladder, which keeps them licking your boots.

The empowered minority know that their power and safety are derived from you, which will keep them loyal.

Of course this paradigm falls apart once you leave, and the controlling minority will either have to get even more oppressive to stay in power, or give up their power and be marginalized and at the mercy of the minority they oppressed for so long. Inevitably there will be civil disorder/civil war/genocide, but that's not your problem anymore.

See Sunnis in Iraq, Alawites in Syria, Tutsis in Rawanda, Afrikaners in South Africa, Arab Sudanese, Rhodesians, etc.

>>3324665
This x100 when discussing european imperialism in the 19th and 20th century

>>3324665
Found the belgian.

Seriously though, if a foreign power, or Alien invasion or whatever, conquered the united states, this is what they'd do. They'd either put in place a super conservative state with christian law and everything to ensure the loyalty of american conservatives content with their rule to do their bidding and keep liberals in place; or put in place a super liberal puppet government with gay marriage and everything to ensure liberal loyalty which keeps the rest ofamericans down.

>>3324688

Burger, not Belgian.

There's research that says you need at least 25 occupiers/1000 locals to keep the peace in an occupation. More if there is an active insurgency, less if the population is docile. A minority of just 10% of the population can push that number up to 100/1000 locals, which is more than enough to control the rest of the population.

> or put in place a super liberal puppet government with gay marriage and everything to ensure liberal loyalty which keeps the rest of americans down.

That's not how you do things, because for one, both liberals/conservatives is too large of a demographic to empower. Ideally you want 10-20% tops, and you want that minority based on ethnicity/religion, not ideology. Then you want to find a very clannish and inward population, even better if they dislike the rest of the population.

I think the ideal group to do this would be southern conservatives/redneck bible thumpers, which combines ethnicity, religion, and dislike of the population you want to keep down (New England, Mid Atlantic, and Pacific Coast).

Liberalism is inherently a bad group to pick, since they want egalitarianism, which is diametrically opposed to the kind of hierarchy and occupying force wants.

>>3324665
Most of your examples are pretty off anon.