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Largely peaceful and voluntary dismantling. This is such an absurd rewriting of history and unbecoming of Danny Kruger who really should know better.

Here is a thread showing some peaceful and voluntary dismantling of the British empire. 1/
2/ The Battles of Lexington and Concord, generally accepted to be the start of the peaceful and voluntary dismantling of the British Empire.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_o…
3/ Rebellion by the United Irishmen, 1798

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Reb…
4/ Indian Mutiny, 1857

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Re…
5/ First Boer War (1880-81)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Boe…
6/ Second Boer War (1899-1902)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bo…
7/ Irish War of Independence (1919-21)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War…
8/ Iraqi Revolt, 1920

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_rev…
Arab Revolt, 1929
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Pale…

Coupled with Jewish insurgent campaigns by the Haganah, Irgun and outright terrorism by the Stern Gang
10/ Indian Independence

Though Gandhi himself led non-violent civil disobedience, the efforts to suppress independence on the part of the British authorities were not peaceful.

Also Subhas Chandra Bose led a violent anti-British movement during WW2

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_in…
11/ Mau Mau uprising, Kenya

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_U…
12/ Zimbabwean independence

(Ian Smith did not take kindly to it, declaring UDI and sparking a civil war against the ZANU and ZAPU movements)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o…
13/ These asre just a few examples. While it’s reasonable to point out that the British wasn’t the only empire, it was indeed what everyone did at the time. It’s also possible to argue that the record of empire was mixed.
14/ And that it brought benefits to the colonised peoples as well as costs, and that reasonable people can disagree about them and discuss them in their context rather than by today’s standards or refracted through simplistic anti-colonial ideology.
15/ Nevertheless, Britain, like other imperial powers, acquired its empire by force and held onto it as long as it could by force, trashing the very principles the empire’s defenders (correctly) say were its chief benefit.

It was not dismantled peacefully & voluntarily. ENDS
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