@AdmiralPrune Rugby is my game, and obviously you're not up to date with the drug problems of the Geordies either then. You sound very much out of the loop
@val70 Whatever problems the Geordies have, at the absolute worst, they come second behind the Scots - snorting their way through any white powder they can find.
@Thinkerbell It did cost them the Whitehouse. And they had to commit the genocide of one race, while using another race as slaves to build their country for them. But yes you could possibly call it luck.
Britain didn't abolish slavery until 1833, so whatever slaves there were in the American colonies at the time of the revolution were perfectly legal under British law at the time.
And of course the British were fully complicit in American Indian genocide during the French and Indian war (1754-1763). They weren't too kind to the Indians in Canada either.
The White House? Oh, you must mean the War of 1812, not the revolution.
And as for using another race to build their country, that persisted only in the southern United States until the Civil War put and end to American slavery in 1865, only a little more than 30 years after Britain abolished it.
@Thinkerbell No but Britain did more than any other country to stop it, at the cost of almost of 3000 lives .
As for the French Indian war, only the tribes who sided with the French perished. Which is standard practice in war. Those who sided with the British, got the confiscated land - until the US took it from them.
And yes, while European countries all ended slavery by passing legislation, whereas the US literally tore itself in two over the issue, thus proving it’s a republic of cruel inbred peasants and nothing of its enlightened motherland.
@Thinkerbell He was taking about the empire. Canada, Australia and so on. At the time the US was neutral to the Nazis, the Holocaust and all that, and seemed content just to make dollars out of the situation. Only Pearl Harbour changed that.
To this day we don’t have accurate numbers on the number of ethnic German Americans who fought in the SS. It’s eluded to in an episode of Band of Brothers. The Soviets claim to have execute 82 of them on the Nazi retreat from Minsk, but we’ll never know real number.
Churchill said, "the New World, with all its power and might."
Somehow, I don't think he was talking about Canada or Trinidad and Tobago. 😂
And actually, FDR was aiding Britain and the USSR with lend lease before Japan attacked. It was the American populace that mostly wanted to stay out of war, particularly after the absolute mess the Europeans had made in settling WW1.
Some German-Americans went back to Germany to fight in WW2? Big deal. About 2000 (Asian) Indian POWs joined the Wehrmacht for the purpose of freeing India from British colonial rule.
Azad Hind (Free India) stamps were printed in Germany as propaganda to help the anti-British movement led by Subhas Chandra Bose with the aid of Japan.
