@MikeDunnAuthor The only time the Netherlands was invaded successfully by the English was in World War 2. They were very, very welcome. I see your point, but still: You shouldn’t oversimplify these things.
@MikeDunnAuthor
We were that close to a world government
Not that I'm calling for a return to the #British#Empire, but I wonder how everything would have looked...
@MikeDunnAuthor
... also a map of our glorious Empire's future conquests and defeats? 🇬🇧💂
(one of my "favourites" - the Intervention into Russia about 1920/1922)
(also, once told a military history fanatic that Brits were involved in Vietnam after the end of the second world war exercising command of the defeated Japanese troops to maintain "order" over the populace - he did not believe me)
@MikeDunnAuthor The only way this map could be valid is if you count ANY military action by Britain.
Probably the one map that pisses me off the most whenever it's posted.
And this is no defense of Britain, fuck them, but no they never invaded Switzerland (one of many examples).
@MikeDunnAuthor I'm not liking how reductive this chart is. As far as i know the british military has never stepped foot in Poland with hostility against an independent Polish state or the people themselves. The same goes for Czechia and Slovakia as far as i can tell. This cute infographic manages to make the most violent empire in human history look bad, congrats on that (with slight sarcasm), but it does so partly by painting at least several countries as inseparable parts of their former imperial overlords. That kind of shallow and short-sighted criticism inadvertently validates the same kind of imperialist and colonialist logic that Britain and other powers have used to justify massive atrocities.
It gets worse when you consider that some countries were most wronged by British inaction - when they sold us out to the nazis (and by extension to the USSR), leading to the genocide of our Jewish comrades, massacres of our community leaders, and enslavement under the concentration camp and gulag systems. This is something the British Empire has to take their share of responsibility for too.
I could also look into whether the map might also be painting invasions of colonised lands and peoples as invasions of the coloniser power - i do feel suspicious about a few of them being filled in - but i don't really feel like having to sift through all of British military history just to make the clear problematic implications even clearer