Message from @Dubdogelmo
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Increased autonomy for the lands
nought wrong with that
Until they eventually leave
Of course there is lmao
We saw with the french/British empires, imperial Japan, and even the Soviet union
The Dominion system is probably what kept the Empire together for so long
The mother country always net lost from it's directly controlled forigen teritories.
Stop stuff like the US revolution from happening again and getting them to pay for their own defence
Oh also Italy. But Italy barely counts
lul the Italian 'empire'
I think it was just Libya and Ethiopia
To be fair, lybia and eritria were both profitable and well integrated
Ethiopia and Somalia less so XD
And the Albanian occupation cost money ofc
I love how the British invaded Ethiopia and didnt bother to colonise it
But in general the Italian empire project was stupid
They were nowhere near good enough to actually make anything of it
I mean, the only colonies profitable to the UK were the dominions, girbraltar, Egypt (cause Suez) and some parts of india
Most of the empire esp in Africa was map painting at the cost of actual prosperity
More than that was spent on infrastructure alone
and yeah the Africa colonising was mostly for Dick measuring and anti-slavery
as well as diamond mines for Companies like Rhodes
Only a few costal/very rich areas of India were worth the costs
plus indians smell bad and we were likke.... naaahhhh
Too bad diamonds are intrinsically worthless and the practice of diamonds for proposal jewelery popped off in the 50s
but muh Koh-ri-noor
But yeah in hindsight the empire wasnt really worth it
Well it was in pre industrial times
The Empire which gave massive power projection meaning we could enforce our will onto others wasn't worth it?
For example.
It wasn't proffitable is more fair to say
Tfw even 18 year olds hate Corbyn
Purely economically I mean
Ah
To be honest, we had more of an ideological / moral reason for the Empire
We saw it as our duty to uplift and civilise those under our control
I mean. America is doing a neocolonial empire