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, ...