How could a small island colonize 1/4 of the planet?

>Opposed the third Reich before the USA & USSR

Opposing nazis doesn't make you automatically the hero. Example: USSR (their temporary allies), Antifa

Why does Veeky Forums spout the meme that Britain was bad because it fought against technologically inferior opponents. All colonial empires did it.

Why are Brits so pathetic?

Because Britain's only glory (muh colonial empire) comes from these wars in which they conquered subhumans
While other colonial powers had glorious European conquests too

Because Veeky Forums is a Brit and Germ hate forum

But Britain fought other nations to get those colonials, or if you go back a bit England owned French lands

>colonials
should say colonies

>But Britain fought other nations to get those colonials
Very rarely, 90% of the British Empire was build after Britain's last fight with another European power over colonies (1815)

>or if you go back a bit England owned French lands
You didn't conquer these lands
Pic related (look at dates of aqcuisition), these lands belonged to some French noble who later took over England and moved his capital city there

There wasn't really anything much like a capital city for Henry II or Richard I's realm. There was a capital/center of government for England, and then a capital/center of government for the possessions in France. Each was ruled very differently.

But your point stands. Duke of Anjou and Normandy first, then king of England by invasion.

>England owned French lands

No, it would be more accurate to say Normandy owned England and large parts of France.

>All a big country like India had to do was to kick them out or don't even let them in.

The British did spend 145 years (1612-1757) in India doing nothing but trading with locals. British colonialism in India only suceeded because of the decline of Mughal power that left a power vacuum in India. The main business of the British in India before the conquest of the Bengal was trade and not colonial administration. While the British had tried to influence Mughal Policy even before the decline of the Mughal Empire, most of such attempts ended with British defeat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child's_War). British military activities in the Indian subcontinent only seriously took off as a result of the Carnatic Wars (1744-1763) which seriously weakened French presence in India and gave Britain possesion of the Bengal. The British only managed to conquer the rest of the Indian subcontinent because they adapted to Mughal customs and governance and left the rulers of the various Indian states in power as long as they paid tribute to the British and gave them suzerainty over the external affairs of the state.

>Is humanity seriously retarded or were the Brits just diabolical geniuses?

British colonialism was mainly motivated by trade and greed unlike say Iberian colonialism which was motivated by Religious extremism. They reason the British suceeded in conquering a quarter of the World was because they were far better organized and had a more open world view (in contrast to the highly conservative and bureaucratic Chinese) than most of their opponents. This organization and their open world view eventually enabled them to adapt foreign technologies (for example Mysorean rockets) and invent new technologies (Railroads, rifles etc.) which gave them a decisive advantage over the technologically inferior people the encountered.

They had a shit ton of money from commerce and no scrupules

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>>Opposed the third Reich before the USA & USSR
Sold Czechoslovakia to Hitler in 1938.

>>Abolish the transatlantic slave trade at great personal expense
>use indentured labor which is the same fucking thing and caused mass famines instead.

This map may look impressive, but remember, many of these places were only loosely controlled by the UK. The British relied heavily on the local elites to rule for them, you still had tons of princely states in India. It's only when the British lost the support of those indigenous elites that the empire was lost.

And were against police action against Hitler in mid 30s (when it could still be done effortlessly).

>No, it would be more accurate to say Normandy owned England and large parts of France.

Actually no
It was Anjou that owned large parts of France (including Normandy) and England

Because it's pathetic when white people so it but a glorious BTFO when Turks do it to Constantinople or sand tribes or whoever else doesn't have the level of technology they had.

White people are OP and thus must be held to a different standard than everyone else.

>france 'conquers' europe and sees it crumble to dust in barely a decade
>its wonderful

>a single british business defeats the great empires of the indian subcontinent and the qing dynasty, bringing untold wealth to the rainy north sea archipelago
>inferior

Better live one day as a lion than 100 years as a rat

Do people forget that India had been in a civil for centuries before the Brits even came knocking? They were on the verge of collapse anyway.

And they also played it smart and played divide and conquer well. A lot of Brahmins were instituted into power and they played the part of the cruel disciplinarian while the British pretended to have no part in it and shilled propaganda about being egalitarian. The Amritsar massacre completely turned the perception around.

The legacy of China and India is as large as the West.
>inb4

a lot of that land is basically uninhabitable and was never really under British control, it's just that no one else cared enough to challenge their claims because it's fucking worthless land

>be manlet cuckboi
>defend faggot revolution
>jk, become emperor
>desperately try to defeat England, an adversary you're obsessed with
>convince yourself defeating russia is the only way
>invade
>lose
>surrender
>violate terms of surrender
>lose again
>surrender
>be prisoner of British
>spend last years as plump OCD autist
>die because of the arsenic - maybe literal rat poison kek
b-but it's ok, you lived one day as a lion, Chad Wellington may have more longevity, happiness, consequential victories, admirers, riches, prestige and power b-but he's a rat really.

The absolute state of napoloboos, honestly.

Industrial revolution, divide and conquer tactics, overwhelming military superiority to those that lived on the land, co-opting native elites into a beneficial Imperial order for them, and the occasional outright genocide.

Come to think of it the British can thank Netherlands for their empire.

They weren't that superior at first. They lost a few wars with some native Indian kingdoms and even one with Afghanistan. It's after they managed to acquire Sepoy's that things really turned around.

>comparing defeating Byzantine Empire to defeating a bunch of spear chucking niggers

kill yourself

Actually it's a pretty big island which was densely populated and had quite some resources.

Kek what? Thanks for providing one of the stupidest comments itt.

Lindy found his way to Veeky Forums

>(mostly ivented by continental europeans)

OUTTA MY WAY, CONTINENTAL FUCKING SHITS

because they're nice to newcomers and didnt expected them to invade

Also mass migration of people in one colony to another undercut local labour or use as a middleman group.