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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
Be careful with generalisations there mate. The Empire declined after fighting two world wars but for the most part it was an economic rather than military empire which is why we are still on good terms with most of our old colonies and teritories. 53 seperate nations form the British commonwelath, 19 of them are African.
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I've been to Africa. I'm speaking from experience.
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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
I'd also be careful about throwing around Hitler comparisons. The only nations in the past few decades to invade another soverieghn nation are America (Iraq and Afghanistan) and Russia (Georgia).
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Iraq vs. Kuwait. Iraq vs. Iran. Soviet Union vs. Afghanistan. Israel vs. Lebanon (repeatedly). There are others in the 80s and 90s. And a great many others if I go back another decade or two to the 60s and 70s.
It wasn't a comparison against Hitler. You completely (and I think deliberately) missed the point. Which was about appeasement. Something that America has never done (except, arguably, with the Chicoms, whom the US kowtows much too much). Nor, to my knowledge, has Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or Canada ever been an appeaser of dictatorial regimes. The same cannot be said of pretty much every other European, South American, African, and Asian nation. If being reminded of some of the less virtuous things nations other than the US have done, it's only fair considering how quick some folks seem to be about pointing out America's many flaws (which I won't dispute, since we do have them). Some nations, which exact ones I'll respectfully decline to point out, have a very long history of appeasement.