Britain - colonises half the world . . .

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27. I posted in another thread about that

It is unfortunate that many on DU only want to attribute all of this to Shrub and Darth's adventures. The sad fact is that this mess started all the way back from the time of the European quest for resources outside of Europe (trading in both people and natural products for their benefit), generally starting in the 1400s. And multiple centuries and wars later, including partitioning of similar empires like the Ottoman empire, partly precipitated the environment that we are seeing today - the consequences of taking over other people's land and imposing what were alien cultural practices on the indigenous populatons.

Contemporary Europeans are sadly left to deal with what some of their ancestors did in the past.

I will say that Queen Elizabeth did at least grant "independence" to much of Britain's modern colonies but as we know, most are still basket-cases and will probably continue to be so for some time.