The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network

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You know, one advantage of #Brexit from the perspective of the #EuropeanUnion is that we have lost a huge foreign policy liability.

I mean, none of the European colonizing nations (which by this point represent only a minority of EU member states, although a powerful one) have really done the work to come to terms with their Imperialist past and acknowledge their wrongs.

But the #BritishEmpire was by far the biggest Evil Empire in world history, and the British _really_ haven't come to terms with that - Brexit and subsequent events showed that the #UnitedKingdom has an epic dose of nostalgia poisoning, and they are hellbent on destroying what little international goodwill they have.

Really, the EU is better off without the UK as they are now - we have enough problems our own we need to tackle.