> a time when the Empire was a great thing, something that helped resist the tides of Nazism. I feel like "The Empire was great otherwise we would all be livin

> a time when the Empire was a great thing, something that helped resist the tides of Nazism. I feel like "The Empire was great otherwise we would all be living under Naziism" is a poor take. It assumes that whatever features of the world existed then must have been necessary to accomplish whatever was accomplished. Imagine the US was still a British colony, and Hitler was still defeated. It would stand to reason then, that it was because the US was still a British colony that Hitler was defeated, right? In a made-up timeline when Britain had already voluntarily broken up the empire, we're in a very different world, once that perhaps wouldn't include Germany trying to expand its power and/or wouldn't have felt itself under threat from the surrounding pre-WWI European empires.