I am astounded at all of you who put 'Germany'.
this picture show why
Cologne 1945
Cologne 1955
I am astounded at all of you who put 'Germany'.
Obviously England.
Every attempt to invade it in the last few centuries was destroyed by freak storm (Spanish Armada, French expedition of 1796...). It managed to steal all of its rival (France) colony in the XVIIIth. It obtained supremacy in India RIGHT when the Moghol was fading away and was able to take a lot of territories.
Managed to escape both World Wars unscathed and its language became lingua franca and became a diplomatic powerhouse in the late XIXth century.
All of that despite being a muddy island at the edge of the world. That's fairly wanked to me.
This thread is in post-1900, though. The OP specified "the modern era, especially the last few decades". From the perspective of the year 1900 and after it, Britain right now actually looks nothing like wanked. Some might say that Britain did not come out of the world wars and the entire period from the 1910s to the early 1950s "unscathed" either.
This thread is in post-1900, though. The OP specified "the modern era, especially the last few decades". From the perspective of the year 1900 and after it, Britain right now actually looks nothing like wanked. Some might say that Britain did not come out of the world wars and the entire period from the 1910s to the early 1950s "unscathed" either.