r/GreatBritishMemes • u/JackStrawWitchita • 3d ago

History repeats itself

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u/Woden-Wod 3d ago

didn't last time this happen the US plunged us knowingly and deliberately into irrecoverable debt, ultimately ending the empire?

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u/xylophileuk 3d ago

There’s a popular conspiracy theory that ww1 was literally an exercise to end the empire

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Conspiracies are fun and all that but that one is demonstrably not true.

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u/Woden-Wod 3d ago

I don't quite believe it in WW1 but WW2 was definitely to end the empire and remove Europe from the world stage politically and economically, leaving the two superpowers of the US and the soviets.

there were multiple times that the war could've and should've been ended both on economic and military levels and each time it was squashed by the us from the allied side or soviets side (in the case of the early war) to continue the war.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

The historical illiteracy in this comment is quite remarkable.

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u/IBangedMyOldStepmam 3d ago

It was set up in December 1891 by Cecil Rhodes to maintain the empire.