What does the UK, France and the Netherlands have in common?

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What exactly is this discussion about anyway?

British hubris.

Britain did not leave its colonies looking like Mordor: that's not really something we should be obliged to be thankful for.

Britain only invaded everyone who couldn't resist like Mordor. There is no complaint about how you left stuff, just about your meddling and invading everywhere in the first place.

The natives were oppressed by their colonial overlords: they would have been oppressed by native overlords otherwise.

Possibly, but two wrongs still don't make a right. You're just trying to whitewash British crimes with the benefit of hindsight and after having spent the better part of a century or even longer trying to correct past mistakes. It's all about the benefits but that thousands of people had to die so british aristocrats could sip their tea or that India was left starving because they weren't important enough to British gentlemen is not really important. And the conflicts in Africa and the Middle East that are a direct consequence of colonial line drawing on maps and antagonism caused by colonial slave trade are apparently not part of the "net benefits" either.