Daily reminder that India reked the Poortuguese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Portuguese_India
A newly-unified state with hundreds of millions of citizens manages to snatch away a poorly-defended conclave controlled by a failing colonial empire?
No way!
Did Portugal have the shittiest empire ever?
Oh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cochin_(1504)
>muh pluricontinentalism
>>1233147
What exactly was India's legal justification?
>>1233914
UN doesn't protect colonies. Nobody cared except Portugal (and Rhodesia/South Africa)
>>1233914
They lacked the power and alliances to defend their territories, thus.
>>1233914
Rightful clay.