exactly… so from 1922… wouldn’t the other colonies… holy smokes look at that beauty called freedom given to Egypt… I want that too and launch an uprising like (spoilers the dutch-indonesian war)… but that didn’t happen. Why?
              
              
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            Plenty did. They either lost momentum or were cracked down or both.
              
              
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            So…ww2 would break the back of the brits and then they would realise that this empire is more trouble than it is worth?
              
              
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            There were already signs of that (the Great War, Ireland, Iraq and India’s independence movement). The war merely accelerated the process.
              
              
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