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British Slander. :)

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll have you know France deserves at least half the blame for most of those lines.

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A third

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      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Let’s settle on three sevenths… Damn it were doing it again!

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    • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, all of the empires were shit in their own way. Just ask someone who wasn’t born noble.

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      • Cocopanda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Then the USA said hold my Mountain Dew. And the endless war on terror started.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    puts their cup down

    What’s the matter with those people?

    continues drinking their tea

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How? Did they have a straw?

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Why is no one getting along? I specifically requested you get along.”

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yeah, but they got Cricket in return.

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Israel+Palestine, Pakistan+India+Bangladesh, any more I’m forgetting?

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    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yes, times were so much better when the Ottoman Empire ruled and oppressed the Middle East and beyond. Truly an empire of peace.

      The Mughals were also welcomed in India as friendly visitors, as we all know.

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    • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Turkey and Kurds, Syria and Kurds, Iraq and Kurds, Iran and Kurds.

      Lebanon i’d say is a shared blame of UK and France.

      Ireland proper and Northern Ireland

      Sudan, Somalia, Lybia

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Africa.

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      • dabaldeagul@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wasn’t that Germany? They decided to be a middleman deciding which territories should belong to who, right?

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    • decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Okay I am defending the British a little here. Yes the issues would have never happened if they hadn’t colonized India to begin with. But. It’s more nuanced.

      Pakistan wanted to not be a part of India with Muhammad Ali Jinnah pushing the two nations theory. The reverse was less true but the Indian leadership under Nehru reluctantly agreed to the split. That’s despite the British best effort to meditate because in places like Kashmir and Bangladesh the separation would be hard and economicly ruinous for the area.

      Viceroy Mountbatten rushed the exit out of india. And the Radcliffe line (the hastly drawn border between the two sides) was a complete mess but also a result of being rushed in 5 weeks. Both this led to a horrible refugee crisis/mutual genocide. But a longer British stay would have been difficult with all sides pushing for their exit and fear of mutiny in the army.

      Bangladesh genocide is an entire different can of worms that I am less familiar with so no comment here.

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      • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        As we all know wars, conflicts, conquest, exploitation, and oppression were totally unknown to the rest of the world before Europeans exported them worldwide. Coincidentally Europeans also removed all supplies of agency from the rest of humanity and hoarded it in the imperial core.

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    • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      North America?

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The present US/Mexico border was set by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo AFAIK, If any of Mexico’s southern border is an English speaker’s fault I’m unaware of it, I suppose Canada was still pretty much a British crown colony when most of the US/CA border was hashed out, but except for Demented Child Rapist In Chief nobody contests that border.

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The British don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. Scotland wants to break away. Northern Ireland wants to break away. These fuckwits cut off their own nose, crashing out of the EU. They literally still think they’ve “done a world of good” for the countries they colonised and exploited.

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    • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      United Ireland when?

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Almost like there’s some sort of “Great Game” being played.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Very efficient way to entertain themselves though.

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  • MSBBritain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Funny lines!? I’ll have you know they were straight as an arrow!

    /j

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