Imperialism never works

 The British Empire

In my opinion, there will never be another Empire as grand as the British Empire.

There are several issues that have brought empires from the Romans to the British to their knees.

A) An empire that stretches needs to have an economy that can fund it.

B) The empire would a huge armed force to maintain peace, and control the local insurgents.

If the American had not saved Europe in World War 1, I still think there would have been World War 2. only the driving force would have been the fight against communism and Russia. 

The Russian Revolution would still have gone ahead, as the people were willing to fight their leaders, even if they had won WW1. 

History would have changed at this point, as I doubt Stalin would have been the leader of a powerful Russian state, as it was at the time. 

People like Jeremy Corbyn who think Russia is the enemy, odd for a person who claims to support Communism, are living in a world that could have existed, but back in the days of the Cold War (1950's - 90's), even when I was in the Royal Air Force; in the late 70's when the Russians came in our air space it was treated as a joke, as next weel we'd go over there.

The most likely country to start a war, in my opinion is either Iran, or Iraq; both want rid of Israel, and all it would tale to start a war is one attack, and then you have to choose sides - I chose mine years ago - Israel, the only Christian state in a Muslim world. 

I have to laugh at people who think Israel is the enemy of peace, she is the smallest state, other than Palestine in the Arab World.