>Only rose due the collective seppuku of its rivals during the napoleonic wars that they were able to avoid because they are an island
>built against savages with sticks against their machine guns and artillery
>Unable to assert their authority in international conflicts with shitholes like Brazil or Carlist Spain wipping put their expeditions
> At its peak it could project pathetic power abroad as seeing in Crimea in which they needed France to save face against a backwards shithole like Russia
>Despite controlling large swarthes of resources and man power they got quickly outcompeted by Germany and the US in terms of manufacturing production
>the first real war that they fought made the empire collapse and kicked them back as a second tier power
>by WWII they were just a glorified Amerijew base and hid the entire war behind their island until Uncle Sam bailed them out
>Try to assert itself in Suez and embarrasses themselves
>They end up becoming a colony of their former colonies with the British economy running annually large balance of payments deficits and a pathetic industrial production that will be surprassed by Spain and Poland in a decade
Why does no one shit on their insane levels of incompetence?

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>They only propped up Jordan
They also propped up a Hejaz Kingdom but you guys conquered them. Both Hejaz and Nejd had been receiving British support up until the end of WW1 or so in any case.