Well it clearly should have killed even more cuz most survivors immediately became freikorps and then nazis.
"Ooh the youth of yurop was extinguished in the mud in a senseless infight"
Sadly not all of it, and I don't want to even think what would have looked like had they pointed their armies only outward, 100 vietnams but 50 years early
the empires were dying anyway as landlords and capitalists proceeded to kill their hosts with escalating extraction.
Similarly the British left India because by the end they had actually spent more money on soldiers, bullets and repression than they ever managed to steal from the sub-continent. American police budgets can attest racism ain't cheap
Just because the imperial powers robbed the world doesn't mean they weren't stupid enough to lose money doing it
Uh, but how then colonialism got renewed for another century?
because neoliberalism worked out some of the kinks and realised that local capitalists and aristocrats could be more included in exchange for enforcing the rule of international capital. Thus reducing the costs of empire
In good news the Chinese are offering better rates to Africa and the European banks are increasingly being pushed out of Africa. In bad news as the contradictions sharpen the empire will become more vicious as it's back gets pushed against the wall both at home and abroad