Planet of Hats
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So Apartheid was unacceptable to the British crown, but Mother England sure didn't have a problem allying with the Confederacy, which literally had real actual slavery well into the 1900s and Apartheid-style segregation policies after that. The honest truth was, Britain had nothing to gain from allying with the Confederacy. They already had trade networks with reliable sources of cotton. I guess countries abusing minorities is only unacceptable to the "Imperial" Parliament when there's not an opportunity to vindictively get back at America.Oh please, we're all aware that India was inevitably going to be lost anyway.
South Africa used that excuse to break away from the Crown, but everyone knows it was just because Apartheid was unacceptable to the Imperial Parliament. Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, for example, has been a model of interracial peace and equality for ages now.
Of course the Sun has Set on the Empire. You know as well as I do that the loss of mainland North America prompted the British and remaining Dominions to form the central Imperial Federative Government, which evolved into today's Imperial Commonwealth. Why do we need an Empire?
Rhodesia, a model of interracial peace and equality? Come on. You know better.