Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
The Baby Boom? You mean the one that occurred as a major world crisis came to an end? As millions of men-at-arms returned to their homes following years in combat?
...and then went back to war across the world as the Commonwealth tore itself apart.

Was this an existential threat to Great Britain itself? I think we're operating on different senses of "regression". From my perspective, GB was in a recovery phase.
The wealth of Britain and its political influence have been in terminal decline since the start of WWII when the BEF was forced to abandon France.

This is my point, you think we're doing well here, but from a historical perspective we've fallen apart and essentially become a protectorate of the US - to the extent that our military has been entirely re-structured to support the US war machine and US political goals. The only upside is that being the US' bitch is much better than being China's bitch.