Akuma wrote:Today the UK is a small regional power with less potencial than france. It was put in its rightful place.
A small regional power with one of the worlds largest economies, a seat on the un security council, nuclear weapons, one of the worlds highest military expenditures, massive cultural exports etc?
And put in it's place by whom exactly? We were on the winning side of WWII. How did Japan come out of that...? Ah yes, reduced to a client state of the US.
What genocides i talk about? The native americans for example. Death numbers are up to 12 - 14 millions. It happened in the british colonies.
The native Americans were genocided by the British?
The slave trade was started from british.
The slave trade was not started in Britain or by the British. Slavery pre-dates British imperialism by several thousand years. But even if you meant the transatlantic slave trade, you'd be wrong to cite the British because the Spanish were at it 100 years before us.
Another famous genocide was on the aboriginals in australia and one of the only "sucessfull" genocides on the Tasmanians. An entire culture destroyed. The only record we have left are some folk songs which the last tasmanian recorded before she died.
I'll grant you Tasmania in a sense. We were responsible for them and should have protected them, it's sad that we did not. But there was no policy of genocide, it was more a case of a low population and poor local law and order. Many of those who died were killed by disease and criminals. But this is the only example of even vague genocide I can think of.
Japan achieved that the asian people saw the british as what they were: defeatable. After that the british empire had no future and crumbled to ash.
I cannot fathom how you come to this conclusion when the Empire continued in parts of Asia for more than a decade after Japan was defeated and that many of the independence movements predated WWII. Can you please explain your logic?
Your only major success against Britain was at Singapore, which although an amazing victory for Japan, was a tertiary concern for us. We were preoccupied with Germany and Italy. What you're doing is comparable to a Chinese person claiming they beat you in WWII.... Oh sure, they did on paper. But you and I both know you were too busy fighting the US, UK et al to are about China.
Japan was an afterthought. A tertiary concern. You were to us, what the Koreans and Chinese were to you: someone to deal with when the real enemy is defeated. Only... you didn't defeat the real enemy