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The most stupid act of the 20th century is Brigadier Charles Fitzclarence's charge of 200 Worcestershire men against the Germans at Gheluvalt.
It was cheered as a heroic act at that time, but thanks to him the world war (as it was called back then) was prolonged by 4 years, 9 million more europeans (including Fitzclarence himself and most of the 200 stupid men who opened the West to Third World invasion) perished, and people like Chou Enlai began to enter Europe without impunity. So, unlike Gavrilo Princip, who is treated of something of a hero in Serbia, Fitzclarence is only remembered by the people of Worcester, which now has 16% 'non-British' population. So, the greatest fuckup of Western Civilization has been forgotten, except by a few crazy souls like me.
Without his stupid act, the Germans would probably have occupied the channel ports, and the Great War would have ended much earlier as the British would have been a bigger logistical strain, having to ship soldiers to Le Havre which was the nearest sizable harbor.
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Rather than discussing how the borders would have been, I would like to discuss that a defeated Britain and France would have instead turned their eyes into the colonies. The loss of the German colonies was a fait accompli, and it is unlikely that Germans would have demanded these back.
More British, French and other idealists who saw no future in Europe would have emigrated to Africa and Asia, and try to strike their future there. While Europe stays relatively stable (no Russian Revolution, remember?), more Western Civilization take hold in other continents while Japan is confined to what it got. (Japan, not affected by the Great War, rose to the #3 position of the world, which would have been completely unthinkable when it opened to the west just in 1853.)
With more Westerners in Asia, the natives are increasingly marginalized and since they didn't get military experience during the Great War they are less able to resist the increasingly heavy hand of the settlers, and end up not too different from "Native Americans". In Sri Lanka, there is a people called the "burghers", who are people descended from whites and some locals. The author of the "English Patient" is the most notable example of such people ; name another Sri Lankan author and you know what I am saying.
With a lot of Westerners not killed, maimed or disillusioned, Civilization advances much faster and Singularity is obtained by 2000, although it would not have been a desirable outcome for a billion people living in Asia and Africa back then.
It was cheered as a heroic act at that time, but thanks to him the world war (as it was called back then) was prolonged by 4 years, 9 million more europeans (including Fitzclarence himself and most of the 200 stupid men who opened the West to Third World invasion) perished, and people like Chou Enlai began to enter Europe without impunity. So, unlike Gavrilo Princip, who is treated of something of a hero in Serbia, Fitzclarence is only remembered by the people of Worcester, which now has 16% 'non-British' population. So, the greatest fuckup of Western Civilization has been forgotten, except by a few crazy souls like me.
Without his stupid act, the Germans would probably have occupied the channel ports, and the Great War would have ended much earlier as the British would have been a bigger logistical strain, having to ship soldiers to Le Havre which was the nearest sizable harbor.
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Rather than discussing how the borders would have been, I would like to discuss that a defeated Britain and France would have instead turned their eyes into the colonies. The loss of the German colonies was a fait accompli, and it is unlikely that Germans would have demanded these back.
More British, French and other idealists who saw no future in Europe would have emigrated to Africa and Asia, and try to strike their future there. While Europe stays relatively stable (no Russian Revolution, remember?), more Western Civilization take hold in other continents while Japan is confined to what it got. (Japan, not affected by the Great War, rose to the #3 position of the world, which would have been completely unthinkable when it opened to the west just in 1853.)
With more Westerners in Asia, the natives are increasingly marginalized and since they didn't get military experience during the Great War they are less able to resist the increasingly heavy hand of the settlers, and end up not too different from "Native Americans". In Sri Lanka, there is a people called the "burghers", who are people descended from whites and some locals. The author of the "English Patient" is the most notable example of such people ; name another Sri Lankan author and you know what I am saying.
With a lot of Westerners not killed, maimed or disillusioned, Civilization advances much faster and Singularity is obtained by 2000, although it would not have been a desirable outcome for a billion people living in Asia and Africa back then.
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