← Back to context Comment by ItCouldBeWorse 7 months ago Its more a sort of shakedown of a ex-colonial power 4 comments ItCouldBeWorse Reply Yeul 7 months ago The UK was shaking down the US for this military base.The whole thing stands as a monument to the decline of the British Empire. N19PEDL2 6 months ago As someone pointed out on Reddit, for the first time in centuries the United Kingdom will no longer be the empire on which the sun never sets. Yawrehto 6 months ago There will still be a British presence there (an overseas military base if I recall correctly), so you could argue it doesn't, but yep.Randall got it wrong in What If (https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/). The sun's going to set on it because of the Indian Ocean territory going. practice9 7 months ago More like reparations
Yeul 7 months ago The UK was shaking down the US for this military base.The whole thing stands as a monument to the decline of the British Empire. N19PEDL2 6 months ago As someone pointed out on Reddit, for the first time in centuries the United Kingdom will no longer be the empire on which the sun never sets. Yawrehto 6 months ago There will still be a British presence there (an overseas military base if I recall correctly), so you could argue it doesn't, but yep.Randall got it wrong in What If (https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/). The sun's going to set on it because of the Indian Ocean territory going.
N19PEDL2 6 months ago As someone pointed out on Reddit, for the first time in centuries the United Kingdom will no longer be the empire on which the sun never sets. Yawrehto 6 months ago There will still be a British presence there (an overseas military base if I recall correctly), so you could argue it doesn't, but yep.Randall got it wrong in What If (https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/). The sun's going to set on it because of the Indian Ocean territory going.
Yawrehto 6 months ago There will still be a British presence there (an overseas military base if I recall correctly), so you could argue it doesn't, but yep.Randall got it wrong in What If (https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/). The sun's going to set on it because of the Indian Ocean territory going.
The UK was shaking down the US for this military base.
The whole thing stands as a monument to the decline of the British Empire.
As someone pointed out on Reddit, for the first time in centuries the United Kingdom will no longer be the empire on which the sun never sets.
There will still be a British presence there (an overseas military base if I recall correctly), so you could argue it doesn't, but yep.
Randall got it wrong in What If (https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/). The sun's going to set on it because of the Indian Ocean territory going.
More like reparations