(November 16, 2016 at 3:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: There's a reason why those empires are defunct, Drich ... but it's not the reason you posited in your OP.
Once again flaunting your ignorance of history.
By the way, colonialism finally ended in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 60s. Guess you need to brush up on your math, too, Squib.
1974 for Portugal (the two wars for independence in Mozambique and Angola were actually caused the fascist Salazar regime to fall) actually and 1980 for the UK (Zimbabwe). And what's actually happened is that western countries have fallen back to the British pre Scramble model of informal empire, where local dictators are propped up in a nominal show of independence.
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