pinemarten :njp::windmill_of_friendship: 🅉As a former Anglophile this very astute summary makes me sad.
Western Exile @westernexile
The ultimate test of critical thinking over emotional clutching for a British citizen - ask them whether the United Kingdom was victorious in the Second World War.
If the reply is yes, and proceeds to cite empty platitudes of 'standing up for democracy' and 'preventing global conquest', the individual has fallen for eighty years of cultural conditioning, and holds that abstract feeling outweighs concrete geopolitical disaster, involving:
The failure of the primary war objective - to guarantee the independence of Poland.
The total collapse of the British Empire, and the end of the United Kingdom as a world power.
The resulting decades of economic malaise, and the devastation of British industry.
The loss of the Pound Sterling as the world's reserve currency.
The accelerating surrender of British sovereignty to foreign interests and supranational bodies.
The immediate betrayal of Britain by her wartime 'ally', who openly humiliated London at Suez, consistently supported terrorism in Ireland, and strong armed her into one failed war after another.
The military and political occupation of European nations by the actual victors of World War Two.
Debt so crippling that it was not repaid until the 21st century.
c. 450,000 military and civilian fatalities, in exchange for all of the above and no tangible gains.
If this is considered victory, the United Kingdom had better hope she never faces defeat in the great power conflicts to come.
It is therefore a good thing that the British population is not currently being emotionally blackmailed to intervene in another war in Eastern Europe, or elsewhere, in the name of 'principles' that Britain neither practices nor has the material means to enforce.
Arkana
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