Why did Britain decline into insignificance while the US grew from a tiny, backwoods colony into a dominant super power?
immigration, land, manpower, and resources I would guess
>>61052275
Britain had the resources and manpower of a vast empire at their disposal.
>>61051780
The Mississippi river system is the largest system of internal navigable waterways in the world and it's situated next to the largest continuous area of arable land in the world
It's nearly impossible to fuck that up
>>61051780
world wars, mostly
>>61051780
The British were cucked by WWI and WWII and gave away their empire piece by piece.
>>61051780
world wars and being in the lovely position of being able to bail europe out - with interest - securing them money and influence in europe, and thus globally. also having lots of land and a large population.
>>61051780
we didnt have a whole new continent to ourselves?
>yanks
>>61053306
this
churchill idiot didnt arrange with hitler and lost his power at sea. he lost it all almost except this one island.
The answer is gold.
>>61051780
Empires became a really bad thing after Hitler tried to make his own
Britain took the full brunt of two world wars. The USA was pretty much untouched.
>>61051780
Jews
>mfw i see another "look how big my dick is compared to yours" post made by an american