Originally Posted by
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Oh, I totally agree.
I can send you the top academic article on that, if you want. By David Eltis, who produced a CD-rom in the '90s featuring every single slave voyage as a database.
He said the UK in 1834-40 became the first society in human history to confer non-enslavable "insider" status on the whole of humanity.
It's a great article to be able to cite if you wanna wind up lefties.
In the two WWs we were acting in our national interests - the same two that have guided our FP since Liz I. Namely making sure at least some of the channel ports were in friendly hands and stopping one power dominating the continent.
The fact that we happened to lose our empire as a result doesn't mean this was a magnanamous gesture.