This is part of a trend: the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution lost most of it's manufacturing industry, the nation that once championed free trade is cloistering itself on Brexit, the inventors of football (a.k.a. soccer) are falling behind on the World Cup, the nations that once were vassals to the British Empire are drifting away from the Commonwealth, and Scotland ...
Well, it kinda looks like Great Britain is becoming less Great each passing decade.
In World War I, four empires collapsed: czarist Russia, Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian and the British Empire.
The Austrians already accepted it. The Russians and Turks are refusing desperately to accept it. The British didn't even notice it.
This is part of a trend: the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution lost most of it's manufacturing industry, the nation that once championed free trade is cloistering itself on Brexit, the inventors of football (a.k.a. soccer) are falling behind on the World Cup, the nations that once were vassals to the British Empire are drifting away from the Commonwealth, and Scotland ...
Well, it kinda looks like Great Britain is becoming less Great each passing decade.
In World War I, four empires collapsed: czarist Russia, Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian and the British Empire.
The Austrians already accepted it. The Russians and Turks are refusing desperately to accept it. The British didn't even notice it.