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bcjdjsndontoday at 2:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'm just glad I'm alive to witness it. Ww2 is what finally sank Britain's declining empireafter ww1, I'm hoping Iran and maybe a global war finally knocks them off that top spot and the east takes over


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ifwintercotoday at 2:17 PM

The lesson from the British empire is it's a slow process, death by a thousand cuts.

"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation" and all that.

We'll be watching it for the rest of our lives, mostly in slow motion with occasional rapid periods of decline like the one at the moment

linhnstoday at 4:39 PM

Be careful what you wish for.

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