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Well, I guess there's some karmic justice in the fact that Britain screwed itself out of an empire by stabbing their closest brothers in the back.

And brothers they were, not just in terms of language and genetics.
Prussia in particular had fought on England's side so many times that it was once considered to be the "Festlandsdegen" (= continental sword) of english interests.

Of course, to the political caste, there is no such thing as legitimate english interests anymore....