Worst Possible Superpower

Worst Possible Superpower

  • The United States of America

    Votes: 14 6.6%
  • Russia or USSR

    Votes: 18 8.5%
  • British Empire or United Kingdom

    Votes: 6 2.8%
  • China (Red or otherwise)

    Votes: 9 4.2%
  • Japanese Empire (Pre-1945)

    Votes: 24 11.3%
  • Second or Third Reich Germany

    Votes: 71 33.3%
  • India, or the Mughals

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • An Arab Empire

    Votes: 21 9.9%
  • Mongoliod or Timur Empire

    Votes: 11 5.2%
  • A Scandinavian Country

    Votes: 5 2.3%
  • A Hapsburg Empire

    Votes: 3 1.4%
  • The Ottomans, or other Turks

    Votes: 9 4.2%
  • Those Dutch People

    Votes: 20 9.4%

  • Total voters
    213
The Japanese Empire.

Especially since it said Pre-1945, and the Japanese were just as brutal and even more fanatical then the Soviets or Germans.
 

Baskilisk

Banned
Try these then the Irish famine, numerous Indian famines took place under the malign neglect of the Empire.

There’s also the two opium wars fought against China. Yeah that’s right the British fought wars in order to force China to buy their drugs. (Breaking
The power of the Manchu and turning China in a civil war riven basket case)

The Boer War (Fought in order to steal some gold)

Numerous other African genocides like what happened to the Mau Mau. (and Zulu's at an earlier date).

Britain also once invaded Tibet for no reason.
Ah yes, those damn British are in the habit of supernaturally spoiling potatoe crops. Or were they just quick to catch on to bioengineered plant diseases?
Your misusing the word genocide, and you should compare this to every other colonial power.
Communism is responsable for more deaths than the Nazi's ever were or would have been.
Communism? Really? That's like saying hate is responsible for more deaths than a murderer.
The Dutch did amazingly cruel things in Indonesia post-WW2 ("Politionele acties"), but no crueler then any other Colonial Empire.
Yeah, pretty much. Being the same makes them the worst seems to be a common thought process here.
Yeah, I have to take issue with the merging of the Bismarck’s Germany with the tarnished and crazed National Socialist Germany. They don't compare at all, and a hundred reasons can be listed to differentiate them. Most likely a lot of people are going to give the Third Reich their vote for the perfect example the 'worst' superpower but I would never cast such a vote on the Kaiser's Reich. Quite the opposite in fact!

That being said and removing that option from the list for the reasons specified, I have to pull the lever on the Hapsburg Empire. Helping in holding off the Turks was all nice and such, but they always seemed to be more of a conglomerate of peoples and regions rather than a coherent state. Course ... guess that argument could be made about some others on the list so perhaps I'm biased against those pesky Austrians.
Read my previous posts.
This and just about all the other points from IBC. Have to agree.
Why thank you for being sensible.
Incidentally, during a recent 'school trip' to see Nelsons ship, in Portsmouth or Plymouth (I don't really pay attention) the tour guide was telling us about punishments given to sailors, the worst one was putting the offender in a noose, then tying a sack to their feet with a canon ball inside, they would then be hoisted up to endure a slow death by strangulation.

"What was that punishment given out for?" I asked inquisitively.
"Sodomy" replied the guide.

Boy did I feel awkward!

......I did get to 'drive' HMS Ark Royal though, which made up for it!

:)
Why, were you draped in rainbow capes?
Is it 'worst superpower' or 'worst possible superpower'?
If it's the latter then I'd say Britain. At one point it ruled over 500 million people in almost a hundred colonies. In the wrong hands that's a lot of genocides.
If I were a man of weaker composure, I'd simply type, "You're retarted," and leave it at that. Lucky for you I have such self control.
 
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