• huf [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    did the empire really collapse tho? the anglosphere is still doing anglosphere things. what changed is that the capital is now unquestionably in washington dc, not london.

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      The British Empire collapsed and the nature of empires changed. USA had the ability and knowledge of how to operate these new empires and essentially took over the role of the old world empires.

      Things like the Suez Crisis sealed the deal on this passing of the torch.