Blazedtown wrote:Yootwopia wrote:From what, exactly?
Oh and as refs whoever said "it shouldn't have happened because like it shouldn't" - the partition was basically binding with Cripps' offer of 1942, which was sort of necessary for the Indians to fight on the proper side of the Second World War. So it kind of was a necessary evil.
Decline, the disaster at Suez. With India to leech from, Great Britain would have been in a stronger position to hold onto its power, radically changing the nature of the modern world for the better.
The thing with Suez was more with how the British and French where trying to keep a waterway to their now non-existant empires and made themselves look like the allies of Israel, ruining their own alliances with Arab monarchies. I used to think that they should have kept it because they paid for it, before I discovered how much of the "payment" was using each other to force Egypt into indendutured servitude and to constantly bill them for mistakes the Europeans made.