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AFAIK: the British Empire caused much suffering, but your comment is a blatant fabrication of it operated. For example, the British East India Company succeeded
by fumblebee 4y ago
AFAIK: the British Empire caused much suffering, but your comment is a blatant fabrication of it operated. For example, the British East India Company succeeded in gaining control in India not through war, but by striking deals with (or strong arming) local rulers and land owning elite, whom they rarely interfered with directly but instead used them for collecting taxes and enforcing law and order. The size of the British military in India was apparently very small.
- soperj 4y agoIt isn't. They operated whichever way worked, whether that was hooking a country on opium (China), or wiping out the population and rounding up the rest into camps on undesirable land(Americas). There's also the Boer war.