>How do you think they got an empire in the first place? Through peaceful negotiations?
They fought other colonial empires like France to secure their global position, Nazi Germany wasn't a colonial empire not did they have any plans to become one, what rational reason would they have of dismantling a potential super power Ally and instead giving the USSR of all nations more power over the Eastern block and internationally
>Because Britain didn't want Germany to become an super power. They would have stepped on each others toes constantly. Britain wanted to be the sole colonial power in the world. The thing with dying empires is they don't realise they're dying and they don't go down peacefully. They fundamentally act irrationally because they think the sun will never set on them.
A blind person can see how giving an anti Imperialist and anti colonial nation more global power would be a bad thing for an empire, you are speaking as if the British are school children who could not see further than their feet, also they wanted to be the sole colonial power so they helped France, a colonial power regain Independence and power
Ian Parker
Well spoken
Ryder Diaz
Most of Western Europe sent volunteers into Russia and they did fuck all anyway as it was half hearted at best while they pulled every trick they had to destroy Germany even at the cost of the entire empire.
Gavin Long
>and just a couple shitty colonies to show for it They were still the sole super power, that's what they had to show for it.
>Why the fuck would Britain jump into another war with a powerful nation For the same reason you did it last time, to stop them becoming a super power.
>why they didn’t accept one of Hitler’s genuinely generous peace offers Again, because for the Birtish capitalist clas,s that's just sitting on your arse while someone else takes your money. You don't realise, these people are greedy as fuck. The entire point of capitalism is to accumulate as much as you can for yourself. So the fuck are they going to share it with Germany? If Britain's not allowed to invade Belgium and France, they sure as fuck weren't going to allow Germany to. That was their logic.
This is like asking why the USA and Russia aren't best friends now they're capitalist. Because they are competing powers, Russia going capitalist did fuck all to ease tensions, it turned them into rival competitors.
Jace James
>And yet the USSR came out of it better off with experienced generals and a fuckload of planes, tanks and military infrastructure. Nothing like what the US had dude let alone what it could potentiall produce. >No because the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact wasn't an alliance, it was a peace treaty. One which the Germans and Russias BOTH used to justify invasion fo poland Despite the fact that the UK only declared war on germany kek. > Saying "lets not attack each other" is a lot different from saying "lets come to each others defence". True but thats not all the treaty said dude It was also a treating agreeing to attack poland and several other eastern european states many of which were invaded by the red army and none of which did the UK go to war over Despite you know that bullshit about wanting to "stop the rise of a super power" lmao. >History proves you wrong. Every class and empire have their day. If your system is based on exploitation, eventually the people you're exploiting are going to get sick of and fuck you up And then a new system of exploitation rises dipshit. Explitation by its very nature is what is necessary for society to function as we all need fundimental things from one and other The fact that civilizations have a shelf life doesnt mean that one day when one falls it will create something other then the systems we've had all throughout human history.
