"There are no villains of history, nobody sets out to be evil"

>Study British history
>Almost all motivation for their actions amount to tying a woman to a train track and rubbing your hands with glee while waiting for the train to come because you want to see her run over
I thought every country had a reason for doing what they do and there were no truly evil people? How come the British act exclusively out of malice and cruel desire throughout history if this is the case?

Is it possible to justify their treatment of the Irish with an argument other than "We didn't see them as people lol"?

to be fair most of their evil practices came form France

>intentionally tries to keep Germany divided
>constantly trying to conquer Italy
>teams up with the Ottomans to fuck over Europe
>creates coalitions that are responsible for most wars in Europe

I like the Irish but fully appreciate why the Brits treated them how they did.

HVIII was the first English King of Ireland I believe, he also reigns over the reformation, England's ascendancy coincides and can to at-least some extent be attributed to the permanence of that movement, the break from Rome, the Crown's usurpation of papal authority and appropriation of it's revenues was seminal in the creation of the modern English and more broadly British identity.

The succeeding events cultivated an ethno-religous tension between the new virile protestant community and the Catholic vestiges in the British isles.
It's important to bare in mind a few things:
>The Irish are racially distinct.
>This idea that religion is personal and apolitical is ridiculous now, it was even more absurd back then.
>You present Brits as sinister Jews but the Catholic laity burnt pregnant Brits at the stake, demanded not only enforced tithes but that destitute commoners pay inordinate sums to spare there unbaptized still-born from Limbo or Hell.
>The Brits reluctance to have the Papal yoke re-applied was so great that they accepted republicanism for a time!
>Infertile Catholic monarchs James II (tolerated because he was the king) and Maria of Modena tried to present a baby that wasn't theirs as a royal so that Britain would be governed by Catholics forever (really jewish trick desu) leading to Britain welcoming a dutch protestant invasion and then legislating that Catholics could no longer be monarch.

The greater Catholic powers such as Spain and France believed the Catholic populations would serve as a fifth column and this aroused the anxieties of the British.
This wasn't unfounded either, there is a reason Walter Raleigh had to kill Spaniards in Ireland during the Desmond rebellion. The gunpowder plot, the Armada, the Jacobite risings - all very catholic conspiracies against the sovereignty of the British. Consider the ease with which Dillon's regiment was raised.

bumping for interdasting

At-least 500 Irish fought at culloden.
There's a reason the Sun King, Napoleon, heck even the Kaiser and Hitler were so eager to establish an Irish connection, and that eagerness was all to often reciprocated.

The Irish chased every opportunity to stick a knife in Britain's back, even the diaspora in the USA voted reliably against the UK's interests (for neutrality or central power/ axis aligned involvement in WWI and WWII respectively) so we get a viscous circle.

loop:
>The Brits, aware of Ireland hostility repress them more
>Repressed, the Irish are more hostile to the British

>There are no villains of history, nobody sets out to be evil
This is true though, you're looking at history like it's a TV show and not actual history.

When a country did something horrible they never did it just for the sake of being horrible, they did it because they gained something from doing it. Do you also think Germans didn't see Jews as people? Of course they did, but putting them in camps to slave away and confiscating their property served a purpose: to fund the war.

They can't help it, it's in their genes. Centuries of living on a secluded island leads to plenty of inbreeding, which explains why Br*ts have such terrible hygiene, disgusting teeth, and unsophisticated accents. If it weren't for the Norman invasion in 1066, the Br*ts would probably not even be considered humans anymore due to all the inbreeding and would be even less sophisticated and human-like than Aboriginal Australians. Basically, Br*ts have the same evil and destructive genes as G*rmans but without the addition of noble Polish genes of tolerance, civility, and support for your fellow kin to balance it out at least in part.

Also, unlike G*rmans, Br*ts could not be tamed. When the G*rmans acted out and tried to destroy whichever part of the world they so desired, they were beaten back by civilized people who could easily crush the backwards and incompetent G*rmans. Luckily for the Br*ts, they had an island to run to. This also taught them cowardice alongside the already subhuman traits Br*ts held. So not only do they have genetics programming them to be evil and destructive, they never faced any consequences for their perfidy either, as invading Br*tain, or any island for that matter, is an extremely difficult task.

Honestly the only sin of George Washington was not sailing to London and beheading King George III himself.

The Irish were simply aware of the perfidy and barbarity of the Br*ts as they were their closest neighbours. it doesn't matter that the Irish did everything possible to hinder the Br*ts because any action taken to harm the Br*ts is inherently moral by definition.

You are retarded.
The entirety of English History can be understood as trying to maintain security.
Hence playing off different continental powers against each other or trying to conquer and control the catholic Island to the west that could be used by Spain (which it was) to invade England similar to Scotland with the French.
All of England's perfidy from Mers-El-Kébir and Copenhagen, to defending Belgium and Leading anti Napoleon coalitions can be traced back to them desiring their Island to be protected from foreign powers. In the IR perspective of Realism (classical and neo) all states desire security, it just so happens that the UK can adopt a unique approach because unlike say France and Germany, England has the channel between any other great power.
Hardly as you describe tying a woman to a train track and rubbing your hands with glee while waiting for the train to come because you want to see her run over.

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