Recent content by Typo

How sarcastic do you think I'm being.

Of course, which is why it's too bad the British Empire no longer exists.

Why not exactly? I just told you one reason it does endanger the world's oil supply.

Of course, it was truly a gift to those countries to be ruled by the British, I mean all the other colonial empires did worse!

Yes, the British Empire was the civilized out of all of them, bringing modernity and civilization wherever they went for the betterment of the colonized people everywhere.

The British Empire ending was the greatest disaster in history, the British Empire brought modernity everywhere

The Anglo-Saxon race is superior in their blood, language, customs, culture, and spirit. This is clearly demonstrated by their ascendancy over the world despite being such small portion of the population and rightfully take their place over the lesser races and bring them civilization.

No, I'm saying you don't understand how supply and demand works, you can't just eliminate one supplier and "replace" it with another and expect to keep on truckin' like before even in a regular market environment because it would lead to a net decrease in supply, let along when it's a war which...

True, but Iraq would sell the US oil just as much as Kuwait

The problem is that I feel to distort Indian nationalism like that you would need to inflict the same amount of damage (i.e destroy) on the native society as the Spanish did in Latin America, and replace it with something else. I don't see how or why the EIC would do something like that.

This is not how buying stuff on any sort of market works.

Yes, in the sense that there is clearly a Brazilian nation with a state, though in Latin America nation might not be synonymous with ethnic-nationalism due to the unique colonial history of those states. In India however, a much more conventional form of ethnic-nationalism is necessitated...

More importantly, the Mughals were not a nation-state, there is not way around the fact that a Nation-State essentially requires the ejection of foreign rulers. This is of course not to say those companies could not establish some sort of a corporatist state, just not a nation-state

Most of the German states with a coastline

Ok, so once again, which specific event is going to get derailed which will cause the collapse of Khmomeini's government? I mean of course it's going to be different without a war, but I find you are still making a huge leap of logic here from that to a very specific outcome.