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  Drekx Omega September 24, 2022 at 5:15pm

  

  Roaring said: "Fact is that Britain could not possibly rule even India alone, all the way from London. India now has the largest population in the world. For every one briton there might have been thousands of Indians! So how could they all be ruled from London??"
  
  Drekx response: We allowed the maharajas to rule India, on our behalf...And they were pledged loyalty to the Viceroy, who was British..We also had British Army there, conscripting Indians into the forces...We also had a vast civil service and employed many Indians to work in it....
  There were two phases of difficulty for the Empire.....The Indian Mutiny of 1857....
  And from that time the East India Company handed over the reigns of imperial power to the Crown....
  
  The second tense moment was the post WW2 period, which was a time of much bloodshed....After Britain left, having granted India independence, Pakistan and Bangledesh separated from India and a massive war broke out between Hindus and Moslems......
  
  India had been successfully defended from Japan, in WW2, so I did not define that period as too serious, albeit wartime India..
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  AlternateEarth September 24, 2022 at 4:59pm

  blue eye cat-Ben allows all topics except explicit violence-there are plenty of spiritual posts on this site-I have also made many-this is reality and being aware of how the world is being run and by whom is a necessity to any awakening-you didn't know that black on black slavery is rampant in Africa? Well now you do and you can bring others to that awareness and maybe put a stop to it
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  Roaring Lovely September 24, 2022 at 4:53pm

  Fact is that Britain could not possibly rule even India alone, all the way from London. India now has the largest population in the world. For every one briton there might have been thousands of Indians! So how could they all be ruled from London??
  
  It seems that Britain was yet another huge paper tiger!!😆
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  Drekx Omega September 24, 2022 at 4:27pm

  Roaring said: "One wonders how Britain could possibly surround Ethiopia all the way from London! How many were they?"
  
  Drekx response: Dear boy I suspect that although you know a certain amount, there is an historical blind spot as to how big the British Empire actuially was....And noting also, that the Royal Navy dwarfed all others...Yes, even mighty USA was not there, where Britain was.....
  
  This map was from 1921, at the territorial max of about 13,000 square miles...One quarter the land surface of the Earth and dominant in most seas and oceans...
  
  That is how little ol' Britain could defend Ethiopia, when nobody else could, back in 1935.....
  
  https://external-preview.redd.it/_mGJDsgUHihHfKjyCSkVO97xLpndkuqEwE...

  
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  Drekx Omega September 24, 2022 at 4:21pm

  😊I would recommend that members watch this video....Wise words...TRUTH....👏🏻👏🏿
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6sUpLq_lro
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  Roaring Lovely September 24, 2022 at 2:57pm

  

  One wonders how Britain could possibly surround Ethiopia all the way from London! How many were they? These were Africans fighting for Britain in second world wars, not only in Africa, but also in India and sometimes in Europe. In ww2 etc Africa, especially in Africa, was fighting for Britain to defend its colonies, not the other way round.
  
  Of course these were ignorant Africans, thinking that Britons etc would favour them after ww2. But they were stabbed on the back, and they arranged to chase the 'white man' off Africa once and for all!
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  Drekx Omega September 24, 2022 at 2:43pm

  

  Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, then, was not a subject for migration of colonists, as Kenya was, as the farmlands that Kenyan territory offered colonial settlers, were more productive and at less high altitudes....Britain surrounded and protected Abyssinia from the Italian Empire.....Indeed, if it were not for British protection, in the 1930s, the people of Abyssinia would have been massacred by Mussolini's drive to create his "new Roman empire."
  The Italians launched a military assault from Italian Somaliland and Italian Eritrea and even used mustard gas on the natives....I believe that Emperor Haile Selassie complained about this, at the League of Nations..
  
  However, as usual, Britain saved Ethiopia from a fate worse than death...
  Mustard gas leaves horrible injuries...
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KzBCMmhVsU
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  Roaring Lovely September 24, 2022 at 2:20pm

  

  So railways were not done DURING colonialism but IN PREPARATION TO colonialism. But the fact that they were done, anyway, shows that it needed not be done as a preparation for colonialism. Native communities could easily collaborate with foreigners to help in railway construction without any need for colonialism. It was only a matter of public participation and education etc.
  
  The majority of communities were never aware of the secret 'preparation for colonialism', but they collaborated, nevertheless. Only such countries as Ethiopia and other small comunities 'smelt a rat' about this seeming 'benevolence'!
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  Drekx Omega September 24, 2022 at 2:11pm

  Colonialism always commences with preparation, including an infrastructure and transport system.....The colonists may start out in small numbers, maybe working for firms, bringing in labour from India, as happened in Africa, many from the Indian railways, that were constructed bt British companies....And after all this is in place, more colonists will be allowed to settle, as happened in Kenya...They called it Kenya Colony...
  And after German territories were confiscated following WW1, Tanganika and Namibia, a railway system was built taking passengers from Cape to Cairo....Or South Africa to Egypt, across uninterrupted African territories...The red bits on maps, then....
  I agree that colonists came after, but colonialism starts with such building projects, as people want transport, law and infrastructure....And Africa was never governed like the "wild west," in the USA...
  
  https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f84eb6232a40020691440e96b6805f33

  

  https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f84eb6232a40020691440e96b6805f33
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  Roaring Lovely September 24, 2022 at 1:55pm

  

  Another thing worth noting is that Railways were not products of colonialisms. They were done prio to colonialism, in collaboration with various communities, just like they are done today. Railways facilitated colonialism, not the other way round. So the statement that 'were it not for colonialism there would be no railways' is false in another level. Railways had already bein built before colonialism.