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You don't have to look into the animal kingdom, history works too. No ruling empire has fallen silently and without conflict. Changing the world order always in
by desterothx 17d ago
You don't have to look into the animal kingdom, history works too. No ruling empire has fallen silently and without conflict. Changing the world order always included an aggressive transfer of power
- actionfromafar 17d agoThe British Empire dismantling wasn't exactly peaceful, but it could have been much worse. Next to India, everything else becomes a rounding error.
- graemep 17d agoIt was mostly peaceful in itself. There was a lot of conflict that followed in the wake of it as borders and power structures were settled. Just in South Asia we had the partition of India, the secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan, the Sri Lankan civil war, and various smaller separatist conflicts.
- sajithdilshan 17d agoNot to mention the whole Middle East mess is due to the British on how they drew the borders when they left