So why did the British just give up Singapore...

So why did the British just give up Singapore, one of the wealthiest and most geostrategically important cities in the world, a city that was undisputedly and universally acknowledged as British territory?

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Because Singapore was attached to Malaysia and Malaysia wanted independence?

Because they don't give a shit about hanging on to anything worth value, material or otherwise.

quite the opposite actually, lee kuan yew initially tried to get Malaysia to annex Singapore but they refused

The brits were dirt poor after the world war, Singapore and anything "east of Gibraltar" was seen to be too expensive to maintain. Furthermore, while Singapore was still an important colony and blessed with perhaps one of the most geopolitically strategic locations in the world, it was nowhere near the economic powerhouse it was today till the big Lee administration.

Honestly: England never considered the Pacific to be a priority and didn't want to spend the money to maintain an empire. This is also why they had to buy missiles and planes off America.

Because they feared the Hakka warrior.

Why didn't America step up?

Because Singapore was a shantytown in the 1940s and not the futuristic metropolis we know it as today?

Because they threw away their empire with WW2 just for Germany to end up taking over Europe a few decades later anyway.

There was some poverty but it wasn't a shantytown.

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Singapore (and the region as a whole) already wanted independence very badly.

Really they should be glad Singapore did not become a left wing haven.

No? Singapore merged with Malaya to form Malaysia (noticed the additional si). That union did not end well...

simply because we respect the rights of others to self determination :)

typical malaysian retardation lmao, as expected of lower iq jungle monkies

Because we had the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Alaska and Australia.

Because they realised how easily it fell in 1942, and that British Naval power really had no more influence in the Pacific anymore given the rise of America.

Kek.

In all honesty though:

Its good that GB sacrificed its Empire to stop the Nazis.

That's what you think!

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that si is not because of singapore

>thought the slavshitter to himself, sitting in his hovel