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@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

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