I’ll have you know France deserves at least half the blame for most of those lines.
British Slander. :)
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gnutrino@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
A third
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Let’s settle on three sevenths… Damn it were doing it again!
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes, all of the empires were shit in their own way. Just ask someone who wasn’t born noble.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Then the USA said hold my Mountain Dew. And the endless war on terror started.
Bloomcole@crazypeople.online 5 weeks ago
They’re getting kicked out of Africa too. Now leaving Senegal. And also blame the US obviously since they took over most of the imperialism and scumbaggery around the globe.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
puts their cup down
What’s the matter with those people?
continues drinking their tea
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How? Did they have a straw?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
You must be one of those people behind those silly lines on the map the English drew
MBM@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Israel+Palestine, Pakistan+India+Bangladesh, any more I’m forgetting?
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Africa.
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Wasn’t that Germany? They decided to be a middleman deciding which territories should belong to who, right?
Saleh@feddit.org 5 weeks 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
decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
North America?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
answersplease77@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
are you talking british colonism from 17th century until the collapse of the othman empire??
You’re missing about maybe 50 more countries I’d say.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 5 weeks 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.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
United Ireland when?
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Almost like there’s some sort of “Great Game” being played.
Bloomcole@crazypeople.online 5 weeks ago
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.”
-Churchill.The psychopath responsible for many genocides and millions of deaths.
OC never mentioned when they make their list of mass murderers, that’s Hitler and every commie leader ever they can think of.
This POS gets voted as greatest Briton.Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Ah, yes, well, you see, he made some great speeches and also… er… played cricket.
Actually, cancel the speeches thing, Hitler made some great speeches too. So it’s just the cricket thing.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Very efficient way to entertain themselves though.
MSBBritain@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Funny lines!? I’ll have you know they were straight as an arrow!
/j
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Yeah, but they got Cricket in return.
Soup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“Why is no one getting along? I specifically requested you get along.”