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No, it isn't even a financial empire anymore. Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, and New York City are far more important when it comes to being financial centers than London.

Rational/wise when you can essentially spend to keep it that way and no one can really contest that, but by the turn of the 20th, that is no longer possible... but the idea was so entrenched that it is effectively a religion by practically everyone. If the Liberals didn't decide to turn a budget...

Wow, you haven't looked all that deep into British history haven't you? The moment that Britain was unified, they played divide and conquer on the entire continent for centuries, dumping ridiculous (and I mean ridiculous here) sums of money and treasure to pit the continent against each other...

@Atarlost that wouldn't work because of Britain's European policy of 'keep the continent divided at all costs'. So that would be a bust because Germany would be a threat to Britain's geopolitical position alongside the United States.

No, this military was so expensive that no taxation regimen can maintain it. Remember the Royal Navy's policies and it becomes far much clearer.

It lost a lot, oddly enough, when the Colonies became the US. What would become the US was a major cash cow for the Empire from what I remember... sure it wouldn't be as much as India but it was damn close. The World Wars only accelerated it, not instigated it. Remember, by the turn of the...

As I said, not going to happen. The fur trade is just too profitable to screw up with and is one of the major cash cows other than tea. The Appalachians were the furthest that the British were going to go with the fur trade on the line.

That won't happen because the British were literally printing money with the Native Americans via the fur trade, to the point that it was obscene. The colonists threatened that.

Here's the thing, Britain couldn't. The moment that the US broke away, the only way that the Empire was going to go is down. Remember, Germany itself started outpacing the economic, industrial, and scientific output of Britain just at the dawn of the 20th. The British Empire was going to die one...