Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Scottyboi]

Everyone has a mobile phone

Was tongue in cheek mate.

 

[wayne71]

Sorry about getting the thread off topic but sometimes its funny when a lot of British people even now gets so defensive about their past.

I'd be more concerned about the present and your country bottling it.

 

[metalblue]

I'm Welsh, the cunts still have us in their empire :)

Don’t fucking start ;)

 

[SWP's back]

Sorry about getting the thread off topic but sometimes its funny when a lot of British people even now gets so defensive about their past.

Hang on, am I defensive or am I saying it’s ok? Pick a lane.

 

[Gremlin]

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I vividly remember, as a member of HM forces (ostensibly a modern military machine) driving round Basra in a Land Rover Discovery that had been bought in Kuwait as a quick and dirty way of increasing the troop carrying capacity of the army. Wasn't very resistant to IEDs as I recall.

 

[roy.or.r]

Ok buddy, a few things here:

1) You’re way off topic
2) You’re trying to argue points I’ve never made (“Ok for the Brits to do it”)
3) India didn’t exist at that time so most certainly didn’t have the second largest economy.

The journey of India’s GDP from 1000 A.D. to 2020

Till about 300 years ago, India accounted for more than a quarter of the world's GDP.

qz.com

Have a look at this. India accounted for almost 25% of World's GDP before British rule.

 

[Octavian]

Just because others did it doesn't mean it was okay for the Brits to do it. Also, the Things the British did was more severe and Indians still feel the effects to this day with widespread poverty. India was the second biggest economy in the world before English came in.

I struggle to believe that.

This is a common misconception spread in Indian Nationalist circles.

Where would India be without modern medicine, technology, transport, the industrial revolution? This was all exported to India in the early 19th century.

The Brits were severe but no more than other empires and less than several.

 

[SWP's back]

Who gives a fuck Sam? It was donkey years ago. God knows why anyone is trying to shoehorn India into this thread, go start your own thread about the British empire and India if you’re that animated by it. This is about a war now not something that happened 150 years ago that @roy.or.r wasn’t alive for unless he/she is the second fucking coming and if he/she is I’d suggest they fix a plague on Putin rather than worry about old time shit. Some fucking people

*respectfully some fucking people.

 

[roy.or.r]

Hang on, am I defensive or am I saying it’s ok? Pick a lane.

I never said it was you though here did I?

 

[roy.or.r]

I struggle to believe that.

This is a common misconception spread in Indian Nationalist circles.

Where would India be without modern medicine, technology, transport, the industrial revolution? This was all exported to India in the early 19th century.

The Brits were severe but no more than other empires and less than several.

So what you are saying is Indians would have gone extinct if Brits never arrived? Got it.