Why didn't the USA just wait 200 years and politely ask for independence like the rest of the colonies?
Why didn't the USA just wait 200 years and politely ask for independence like the rest of the colonies?
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The UK let them go because at the time the French controlled the Mississippi and there was a real possibility of American rebels siding with the French and some kind of French Empire emerging in the Americas if the war dragged on too long.
>just have 200 years of hindsight bro
Shit thread. OP is a fag and jannies are trannies.
jorge washington was Iberian and he knew that america was meant to be brown
Staying under the dead hand of Britain would have sapped us of all our vitality and spirit, so that by the time we did become "independent", we would still just be colonies on the east coast with no desire to conquer the frontier. America as we know it does not exist without manifest destiny; we would be another Canada but with more blacks
No it wouldn't. Britain was vital and energetic in the 18th and 19th centuries not like today, they were on the cusp of the industrial revolution and global Empire. Standing together with Britain the Anglo could have conquered the world.
>but muh sacred liberties
Not all that important in the larger scale of things. Do you really think the US would never get representation even as its economy grows and becomes hugely important to the British Empire? That you'd still be selling beaver pelts to pay taxes to the King? The typical colonial gentleman still had enormous liberty being part of the Anglo trade network anyway, he could use English banks and appeal to English law.
Instead of having to fend for itself, and claiming its place as a great power, America as part of the British Empire would just be another colony to provide manpower, tax revenue, and resources for the British to pursue their aims around the world. Conquering the frontier and asserting dominance over the New World would have taken a backseat to India, China, great game with Russia, etc.
>Do you really think the US would never get representation even as its economy grows and becomes hugely important to the British Empire?
Why would it? The Indians never got that and they were hugely important to the British.
>A net drain lodestone from beginning to end.
>"hugely important".
The Raj cost more than it gave back. Pajeets are eternally on suicide watch from this.
>inb4 45 gigatrillion dollars
lol, lmao even.
>The Raj cost more than it gave back
So did the USA
>an increase in quality of life and opportunity for millions of Englishmen vs Calcutta's Infinity Welfare Black Pit of brown NEETs
Wrong again, Rajneep.To this day, The UK is still bankrolling Indian, Pakistani, and Banglandeshi welfare spending. The absolute state of it all.
The USA did not provide an increase in quality of life for Englishmen, it just wasted their resources defending barren territory.
>No it wouldn't. Britain was vital and energetic
Shut up, Australia would have had all of Indonesia conquered instead of an entire generation dead at Gallipoli
>unable to row in a straight line from the boat to the beach on a full moon over a mere 400 meters, somehow get mixed up despite months of rehearsals and preparation.
>land unopposed and sit on the beaches at ANZAC Cove.
>Wait some more for sunrise.
>get surrounded by the Turks.
>"The poms did this."
Do australians really? If the Gallipoli campaign failed it’s almost single-handedly thanks to ANZAC retardness. All they had to do was walk forward inlane.
Because those rich smugglers and land speculators were going to miss an opportunity to make a shitload more money if the government carried on reducing the tax on tea and preventing further settlement west.
The USA technically was waiting, a minority of liberal revolutionaries were able to upend the social order by inviting the French to intervene.
Because their rights as Englishmen were being violated, and they had the power and foreign backing to launch a successful revolt. No reason not to try.
And what English “rights” were being violated?
the right to evade taxes
>"AMERICAN" ENFIELD
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