>watching world at war
>it's a 'complete and utter humiliation of the British empire by 5 foot tall nips on bicycles' episode
>>70025656
>knew the terrain (had sent spies)
>cut off and outnumbered
>simultaneously fighting a war in Europe/(later North Africa too) where nearly all our Navy and manpower needs to be
we got revenge at least
> Dying Empire
I know that feeling, hug me.
Ey... Are you ok? Hug me please.
>>70026491
We still have AUS,CAN,NZ hanging around, all the empires died in the end , only two left and they are continental empires ; America and China. They will not last
>>70026740
>they will not last
>meanwhile his """""union""""" is slowly breaking up
>>70026769
>slowly breaking up
The New Zealanders did not even want to vote in favor of withdrawing the Union Jack from its flag.
Australians are generally in favor of maintaining their British heritage. The same in Canada.
I see it quite solid.
>>70026769
No its not, and to be frank most people in England do not like the Scottish-they are a huge drain on our economy, the entire country of scotland is poorer than London, its poorer than most of the other regions in england too
>just a little bantz, mates
>can you handle bantz?
>>70026693
Your empire was lost because nobody really cared very much, the ones in south america were just rapebabies and mines, spain didnt really try-it was more like long-term plunder.
A few of the islands like cuba you tried harder, should have committed more-could still do that at the time
>>70026964
Spain couldn't do much to stop its empire rebellion because France had just spent a few years raping the nation so hard it didn't recover until after world war 2.
>>70025656
>>70026442
Recommend more nice brit docs please. I'm almost finished with the BBC Cold War series.
>>70026964
The British Isles had demographics in their favor. United Kingdom always had settlers to send to any part of the world, even to South Africa. Spain on the other hand always had problems with the demography in the Peninsula (always low) and the exit of settlers of Spain to the new world was very restricted.
Spanish settlers were always a small elite, more like the British in India.
IQ Japanese > brits
many events prove this fact during and after WW2.
Japan promptly recovered from big blow of defeat and became 2nd largest economy.
by robbng your proud industry.
Praise Bose
>>70027093
there's a good 13 part series on the history of europe from the fall of rome to the industrial era
called "civilization" and made in 1969
audio's a bit meh but its worth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKYipz2Saiw
>>70027385
Thanks based anon
>>70027430
np, and if you're autismal as i am, you may want a downloaded copy, so here's a way to download any youtube video onto your pc via vlc
http://www.wikihow.com/Download-Files-Using-VLC-Media-Player
>>70027674
Thanks, but I already use the youtube center chrome extension which puts download links on the page.