Why can't Europe defend itself?

[gaelic cowboy]

I don't think the industrial decline seen in Britain had much to do with its colonies. It seems more like the newcomers being more competitive and innovative and the old dog not being able to learn new tricks.

Indeed there is the real reason the colonies cost Britain money it was because of tarriffs levied against it's own colonies never mind France or Germany.


No wonder it cost Britain money to have colonies they were trying to tax colonial industry to be more expensive than at home