>>50067651Nah I think we did pretty well all told. An often-overlooked achievement is that we survived (and rebounded from) the collapse of our empire. If you look at history you'll notice that empire collapse usually breaks the host country.
We were quite close to default after the world wars and could easily have made the mistake of fighting doomed wars to preserve the colonies, but luckily we had some sane leaders and were able to hold it together
