Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
Bah, if we hadn't kept you fighting eachother you would have ruled the world in our stead, and we all know how badly that went under the spanish let alone the slices of africa we let you have.

We screwed you guys over to protect the world from mainland tyranny.
According to Wikipedia, the colonial governing was much improved after some atrocities happened and turned into one much improved even in comparison to other nations. How Germany is comparable to the Spanish now is entirely beyond me, there not just mainlanders and islanders in Europe.

And ignoring that, having colonies was a bad idea in the first place, that's why we stayed out of it until the wonderful institution of monarchy gave us an idiot who wanted glory and money for the capitalists who had been begging to be allowed to subdue others for a long time. And who invented capitalism again?