“Make sure none of the former colonies are strong or united enough to challenge our imperial hegemony!”
“But what if we become a second-rate power beholden to one of our former colonies in terms of international coalition action, and instead of benefitting from the division by playing strongman ‘mediator’ to maintain them in perpetual vassalage, end up a helpless and frustrated observer of spiraling regional chaos that actually works against our interests and, indeed, the interests of all of the world?”
“That would never happen to the Empire upon which the sun never sets! Don’t be daft!”
“Right, I don’t know what I was thinking. God Save The Queen!”
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“Make sure none of the former colonies are strong or united enough to challenge our imperial hegemony!”
“But what if we become a second-rate power beholden to one of our former colonies in terms of international coalition action, and instead of benefitting from the division by playing strongman ‘mediator’ to maintain them in perpetual vassalage, end up a helpless and frustrated observer of spiraling regional chaos that actually works against our interests and, indeed, the interests of all of the world?”
“That would never happen to the Empire upon which the sun never sets! Don’t be daft!”
“Right, I don’t know what I was thinking. God Save The Queen!”
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