Comments by "sandgrownun66" (@sandgrownun66) on "WION" channel.

  1. "divided the country in three parts. Only because after independence the country could not live peacefully as one. As it was, one million people died after partition. What a disgusting waste of life!
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  2.  @andrewwilliams9312  So the diamond has had several owners. Whose to say that the present owner, does not have the full right to own the stone?
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  3. Correct in all respects. Hopefully we can wake up the brainwashed here, with a dose of the truth.
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  4.  @georgephilip1966  And the saying is wrong. You might be a slave, if it was not for the British. Before the British came to India. Your country had more people being owned as property, than all of the rest of the World combined. The British also stopped your practise of widow burning and infanticide too.
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  5. What a ridiculous story. What use are some dolphins trapped in pens going to do.
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  6. @@JulianKazmier-vo3fn What do you mean the West? This is a Polish TV station. This story, even if it was true, wasn't worth covering.
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  7. Yeah. Keep on dreaming about your homie j c, buster.
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  8.  @inhisservice8862  We can see just how deluded you are. When all you've got are the lyrics to a 70's pop song as evidence!
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  9. It was Indians who demanded that India be divided into three parts. How is it the fault of the British that you could not live in peace, but killed each other? The fact that Indians had the word loot, shows that things were being stolen there, long before the British came to India.
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  10.  @get_it_up6286  As said by someone who probably can't.
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  11.  @LR-kr9sz  "Considering slavery was a transaction." Oh well. That makes it OK then. Treating people as property to be bought an sold. A trade practised by all cultures, and stopped by the British, because it was immoral. Should you not be thanking Britain for all the lives it saved? Rather than wanting a hand out from her.
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  12.  @wingaard  Yep. Slavery was a global institution, until the British stopped it. Yet, what thanks do they get for the most noble and selfless achievement in the whole of human history?
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  13. Yeah. And they want a war with China next.
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  14. Of course. According to this, you'd think that the British Empire was the first and last empire to exist!
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  15. Apparently, it's still shite. What do you expect from a country where they still sh!t in the street!
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  16. Maybe India should have colonized Britain? Then the shoe would be on the other foot.
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  17. Correct. India probably owes the British for all the inventions it gave them and the world.
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  18.  @TheAaronChand  "America was inhabited by Brtishers White Englishman". Wrong! What about the whole West of America and Florida which was settled by the Spanish, and the South, which was settled by the French? It's just that the British were more successful in developing their colonies. "Plus colonial America had acess to guns knew how to use them." And so did others. Also, what's the purpose of having guns, if you don't know how to use them? The British fought the French for control of Canada, which they won. "They where more prosperous and more wealthy than The mother County or Europe." No they weren't. Britain had the largest economy in the World, during the Victorian period. and was only surpassed by the USA around 1900.
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  19.  @London_miss234  They already had their own government. Barbados was a fully independent country. The Queen was just a figurehead, with no real power. The same as she has no power in the UK.
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  20. Much in the same way as local Africans grew rich by selling slaves to the Arabs, Portuguese and Spanish. Without local help, these trades could not have happened.
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  21. Whilst your at it, ask all the other countries that were colonized by other empires throughout history. There's a long list of them. Britain was invaded by the Romans, Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans. Should Britain get reparations too? And as for the British being "animals". They were the ones who ended the global slave trade. Unless you think that the owning of people as property should have continued?
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  22. Yes. Especially when they spend $2 Billion every year in firing rockets into space. There are also 73 million Indian families without adequate housing.
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  23.  @robertgalloway3771  How does England "loot" Scotch Whiskey? England also has it's own oil and gas reserves, which it shares with Scotland. As for food, England or Wales buys from Scotland any food they need. That's why it's called the "United kingdom". Are you crazy, or something. Or just ignorant?
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  24. What misdeeds? Ending the global curse of slavery. You should be paying Britain for what she did, in saving other's from having to be someone else's property.
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  25. Belizeans served in the war because they wanted to. There are Mayan artefacts in many countries, not just Britain.
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  26. No. It was actually 997 trillions from Africa. Get your facts right.
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  27. Nice to see Nigeria leading the way in human rights!
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  28. ​ @czhaok  Yep. The Scottish seem to conveniently forget that they were just as much involved in the British Empire as the English, Welsh or Irish.
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  29.  @jackmcnally9237  Talk for yourself buster. The modern world wouldn't exist, if it wasn't for British innovation and invention.
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  30. What the phuq are you even on about?
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  31. Why would any god specifically want to protect just the USA?
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  32. What do you deserve? The answer is nothing. Britain already gave you the modern technology and medicine you take for granted. Britain wants it back. When are you going to return it to her?
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  33. That's some phuqed up alternative history sh!t, you got there dude.
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  34. They should also make a documentary of what the British gave to the World. Or better still make that a series!
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  35.  @satheeskumar3653  Maybe that's because the Africans weren't and aren't using their natural resources. Just like India wasn't.
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  36. The British made use of resources in other countries, that otherwise would not have been used.
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  37. "but they need to go directly to the slaves themselves." You might have to dig them up first. Unless you know of any two hundred plus year old slave, that's still alive?
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  38. You forgot all the other things Britain gave India, and they didn't even charge for it. Britiian invented the modern world. So maybe she should ask India for all these inventions back?
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  39.  @jamaicanprincess4124  No. Other Africans just captured and sold you to other traders, including Arabs. Do you want Africa and the Arabs to pay too?
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  40.  @faithgurl08 "Africa didn’t benefit from the slave trade. Europe did." Really. Who sold the slaves to the traders?
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  41.  @riiraa881 The Europeans and don't forget the Arabs, didn't need guns. Slaves were captured and sold by other Africans. The traders stayed in ports, as the life expectancy for a non-African in the interior was just a few months. The slaves were brought to them by Africans, who had taken them from another tribe. Is it really that difficult to understand?
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  42.  @faithgurl08  Benefitted rom what? It was Africans who sold other Africans to Arabs and Europeans. The Arabs took slaves from East Africa and the Europeans from West Africa. African tribes were always in conflict, just like other cultures. Any African taken prisoner, who be taken to the coast and traded for money, goods or weapons. The Europeans stayed on the coast and let slaves be brought to them. A European would be dead from disease in a few weeks, if they went inland. Slavery was practised by all cultures, ever since humans evolved. It was the British who formed the West Africa Squadron and spent the equivalent of one trillion dollars and the loss of many lives to end the global trade in people as property. And they did it not for wealth, but because the British believed it was immoral. Why are you so ignorant of your own history?
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  43.  @faithgurl08  "Can you list ways in which African as an continent benefitted". I gave you a reply to this. Do you have any response?
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  44. What's a Jamaican American? Why didn't you help build up Jamaica, instead of running to the US?
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  45. Well. If they did, they were about 7,000 mile short.
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  46. Shame for what? The British ended the global slave trade. There were more slaves in India, than the rest of the World, before the British came to India and stopped the trade there.
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  47. Who. The Ottoman or Mughal Empires?
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  48. No. Humans are the problems. There will be conflict, even without empires. Empires brought peace and stability, if nothing else. However, the British Empire gave as well as it took. Not like the Spanish and Portuguese Empires which just took. That's why those empires collapsed so early. When they had taken everything from their colonies, they had nothing to give in return. The British were able to give the fruits of it's Industrial revolution to the world and offer finished goods in exchange for raw materials.
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  49. Evidence?
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  50. Why would the British have your Amber Room? It was stolen by the Germans, the enemy of the British. Sometime during World War II.
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  51. When are you going to thank Britain for ending slavery? So that more people didn't have to be owned as property. Or maybe you think that the trade should have continued?
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  52.  @truthandjustice7219  And stopped the further enslavement of millions.
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  53.  @inhisservice8862  Why would anyone waste their time listening to your "warning", if you have nothing to back it up with? Also, don't waste your time in useless prayer. Do something constructive with your time. “Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.” ― Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
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  54. Sounds like a half-baked plan to me!
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  55. No. It's probably on the Mughal's hands.
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  56. And if you got a handout. Do you think it would go to those who needed it most?
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  57. Yeah. But to do that you'd have to stop wanting a war with each other first.
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  58. In case you didn't know. It was the British who ended the global slave trade, at the cost to them of $1 trillion. Something they did not have to do. Every other country, including apparently India. All thought that owning people as property was OK. It was just that the British thought otherwise, and rightly so. Unless of course, you think that slavery should be brought back? If not, then maybe you should be thanking the British for that selfless act.
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  59. "reduced India to a third world country !" And do you think India would have been better without British technology. It would still be as poor as before the British. As for Bharat. Nobody's heard of it.
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  60.  @ruzickaw  Ouch! No. Never are the Arabs or Chinese responsible for exploitation.
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  61. Yeah. No Indian ever used a train for their own purpose. Always because the British made them travel on the railways.
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  62. The Britain was invaded by the Romans, Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans. Do they want a handout from these people. Of course they don't. They built a rich country instead.
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  63.  @kozmickhandi9951  No deflection. Just showing what nonsense this reparation scam is. Why don't you just develop your country, without demanding handouts from others. Britain is just a small island, yet its people built the most powerful country in the World by themselves from nothing, and with no help from outside. They did this through invention and innovation, which resulted in the Industrial Revolution, and was responsible for the Modern World. As well as that, they spread the concept of good governance, no corruption, the rule of law, education, the rights of humans, and an end to slavery.
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  64. No. It's humans that are sick. The World would do just fine without them.
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  65. Yeah. And who's going to pocket the pay out?
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  66. Remember what. The over a million people died in the intra religious violence, which occurred AFTER the British left India?
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  67. If you want a stink, maybe you should visit the average street in India?
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  68. No they won't. Karma is a myth.
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  69.  @anonymous-oc2il  Ukraine has shown just how weak Russia is. Maybe India needs to find a better ally?
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  70. Who says India has the best engineers? Where did you think the Industrial Revolution happened. India or Britain?
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  71. What. The British ended slavery, widow burning and infanticide in India. Or maybe you think they were practises that should have continued?
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  72. Correct. All empires had practised slavery. Except for the British, who ended it and forced other nation to stop it too.
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  73. No. The kids and grandkids just get sent to a labour camp for having the audacity to being born to the scientist who failed.
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  74.  @LR-kr9sz  LOL. You also might find you would be treated worse, depending on how civilized your owner was or not. Generally speaking, of course!
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  75.  @LR-kr9sz  Well. Britain ended the global slave trade, at a cost equivalent to one trillion dollars and the loss of many lives. They didn't do it for money. They did it simply because owning people as property is wrong. Would you call that the actions of an uncivilised nation?
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  76. Do you know why it's called "Great Britain"? It's to distinguish Britain from its similar sounding, but much smaller French neighbour, Brittany. It's a simple as that. Britons were enslaved by the Romans, Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans. But do they want a handout from these countries? Of course they don't. That would be stoopid!
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  77. What ugly facts?
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  78. Apparently, they don't matter.
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  79.  @ravenous200  The bigger question is why you write using all capital letters?
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  80. No big deal, They can have back the stones that someone chipped away at a few thousand years ago. Just make some exact copies from the same type of rock and ship the originals back to Athens and the jobs a good 'un. However maybe, you should blame the Turks. On 26 September 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by Venetian bombardment during a siege of the Acropolis. The resulting explosion severely damaged the Parthenon and its sculptures. If not for that explosion, there would not have been sizeable chunks which could have been carted off by Lord Elgin, under the agreement of the Turkish occupiers. At the time the stones were being used for building materials, and could have been lost forever, if not preserved by the British. The takeaway from this, is that history is always more complicated than it seems!
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  81. Nope. Your politicians would get the money. So what's the point?
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  82. Compensation for what? the British were the ones who ended the global slave trade. Why don't you ask the new South African government for compensation. let's see how far you get with that. Maybe Ramaphosa will give you some of his billions?
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  83.  @mominlok4042  Maybe you should tell the previous commenter to stick to Jamaica. Instead of South Africa.
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  84.  @mominlok4042  All over the place. No buster, All I deal with are facts.
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  85. And many of the Doctors they do export are dodgy at best.
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  86. Hmm. Now that's an idea!
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  87. You ain't got the balls. Just like in the past you didn't.
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  88. "NATO is the Imperial arm of the Anglo/US Empire." Is that why there are twenty-eight other, rich, independent countries in NATO? Do you think they all consider themselves to be "colonies" of an Anglo American Empire?
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  89.  @amascia8327  So what's your point then? Or are you just talking out of your arse?
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  90. Leave the slavery to the Arabs. They started it.
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  91. Yeah. India would probably be in the same backward state it was in before the British even arrived.
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  92. And why do you think the British government is happy to take East Asians? Is it because the possess certain traits which are desirable?
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  93. "most impactive nations in every field in the world." Nonsense! India pioneered nothing. It was outside nations like the British, which taught them everything.
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  94.  @ruzickaw  And yet India wastes $2 billion a year on space rockets. Even though they have millions with no proper home or health care.
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  95. That would be difficult, because the 99 year lease is NOT TRUE.
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  96.  @reimannx33  Yes. There's poop everywhere in India.
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  97. "Devloped once more..." India was NEVER developed and the country has a long way to go before it could be considered so. However, not sh!tting in the street, might be a small step!
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  98. What truth?
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  99. India had more royalty than the British ever had.
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  100.  @wobkgs  Correct. The people who invaded and exploited Britain in the past, should pay the British for what they looted. The Romans took tin from Cornwall, gold and copper from wales, lead from England and slaves from all of Britain. Also, the Saxons, Danes, Vikings and then the Normans all plundered Britain, enslaved its people and took its riches for themselves. So all these countries need to pay back, for what they took. However, the British have NEVER asked for the payment of ANY money from these European countries.
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  101.  @philipalbon3192  Well said.
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  102. Which religion. Islam?
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  103.  @toulasantha  Which religion? Religion causes death and suffering.
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  104.  @jeetendranathboyjoo7391  Yes. Africa waits for you. Why not return to the Motherland?
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  105. Not unless you do something with what you take. The British turned natural resources into useful products in their factories. Something the Indians would not have done.
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  106. Yeah. Sh!t happens. You just gotta move on.
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  107.  @GaryHField  "They also sold Irish in the New World and used them as indentured servants and slaves." How many Irish were sold as slaves by the British? Actually, it was the British who spent the equivalent of $1 Trillion, abolishing the global slave trade, and for no benefit to themselves. They did it, because slavery was banned in England in the eleventh century, and also maybe because owning other human beings as property is wrong. Although, every other country on the planet thought that it was OK. Until the British Empire, through it's global dominance of the oceans could end the trade!
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  108. Except that it isn't true. The gems were given and not stolen.
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  109.  @unkknown4112  You obviously don't know much about the history of the diamond. It was acquired by Alauddin Khalji, second ruler of the Khalji dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, when he invaded the kingdoms of southern India. Eventually it was given to Queen Victoria. Valuable items are often gained through conquest as spoils of war. It is a common practice of the victor. Also, sometimes items are given as payment for a favour. Why do you think that this is special, just because it came from India?
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  110.  @cherylmoss3632  They don't "flaunt" them. They are only used on special occasions, as a symbol of the monarchy. The rest of the time they are on display to the public. The crown jewels actually have a start date from the 12th century. 500 years before the British even came to India.
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  111.  @unkknown4112  This happens when a large country with many people can't defend itself against a small country with a few people. Maybe you should have kicked out the British when they first came?
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  112. You forget Scotland, which has a high spending Socialist government and has to be subsidised from Westminster. Or maybe you want to turn the clock back ten thousand years, to the end of the last ice Age. When the first immigrants to Britain, originally settled the Islands?
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  113. Southwest of where? Antarctica?
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  114. Should all the techology given to India also be returned too?
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  115. You are not wrong. India was only part of the British Empire. The USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were all rich parts too, and built from nothing. They don't want any money from Britain.
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  116. No it wasn't. Europe developed, because it's people, especially the British invented and innovated far beyond that of other civilisations. No other country or continent did so. With all this advanced technology, it was natural that Britain and Europe would expand their influence into other parts of the World.
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  117. maybe because it was made in India. You have to give them at least a bit of slack!
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  118. Wrong! Kim Fatty the Third, as he's known by the Korean people. Would hate it, if the world forgot about him.
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  119.  @larryl4216  And they're testing again, whilst old Joe is the basement at the White House.
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  120.  @steveboy7302  Of course not. Murica saves the phuqing day y'all.
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  121. Correct. If you can't defeat a small force from a little island thousands of miles away. Then you deserve to be exploited.
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  122. "Since 1604 or1707 Scotland had no history, according to English History Scotland did NOT Exist !." Really? Where did you learn that nonsense. In 1707, Scotland was broke. So it asked for a union with England to pay off its debts, which the English accepted. The two monarchies and parliaments united as one in London. Scotland remained a separate country within the new United Kingdom. Scotland has always had it's unique history, and it always will. The Scottish were only to happy to help England build it's Empire. Only when the Empire finally ended, did Scotland suddenly, not want to play anymore. Talk about being stabbed in the back by a fair weather friend!
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  123. What justice?
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  124.  @hazimsaud5872  It's a myth to believe the world was without conflict before the establishment of any empires. Humans have always fought over the smallest of disagreements.
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  125.  @hazimsaud5872  And just what did the British do. Except bring peace, law, technology and an end to global slavery.
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  126. Bollox! Why would turkey have an axe to grind with the British?
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  127. What do you expect, if other countries like India. Didn't have the ability to use the resources they had. Let someone who can use those resources do so.
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  128. Didn't India insist that Britain "quit". However, when she did as you wanted. A few million died violent deaths, because you couldn't get your sh!t together.
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  129. Correct. The fact that Britain still gives India money, is a disgrace.
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  130. Maybe because they are.
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  131. Your imaginary god blesses nobody.
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  132. "We never share our Invention with whole world as Western people do." maybe because you never invented anything important in making the modern world. It was the British that did most of the inventing.
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  133. Well. You should do something about that, shouldn't you?
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  134. "for thier mistreatment during the ww1." Wrong war, luv!
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  135. And how many of those "companies" are still in business. Slaves were owned by people, not companies, and good luck with get money from somebody who died two hundred years ago.
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  136. If you have an enemy. You defeat them and they go away. Why couldn't a big country with many people defend themselves successfully, against a small island many miles away?
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  137. Don't hold your breath. They have to fight each other first, to see who's top dog. What's your bets on the result?
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  138. Britain is still waiting for thanks in stopping the Worldwide practice of owning people as property. Unless you think that the trade should have continued?
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  139. Good luck with that one, buster! Britain is still waiting for thanks in ending the Worldwide trade in owning people as property.
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  140. If you earn money through innovation, like the Industrial revolution. Then you have the right to spend it.
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  141. What the phuq are you on about?
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  142. No actually. Europe became rich because they, especially the British, used their brains to come up with inventions and innovations, which resulted in the Modern World. No other continent or country did, or could do that.
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  143. Yeah. There was never anything like racism before the British cam along. Everyone lived in peace and harmony. Unless you were a slave or untouchable that is!
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  144.  @Hardevsingh99710  No. The Chinese destroyed their own economy by taking Communism form the Russians. Communism is the best way to kill an economy there is.
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  145.  @charananekibalijaun8837  Yeah. There was no such thing as racism before the White man came to Africa. If were of the same tribe of course. if not, then you might end up with your head on the end of a stick!
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  146.  @candyman111881  Are you going to hold all the other empires through history accountable too. How about the Mughal Empire, Genghis Kahn and his Mongol Hordes. Or maybe the Roman Empire which invaded Britain and enslaved its people. Or the Danes, Saxons and Vikings which also invaded the island. Surely the Italians, Danes and Germans owe the British people some money? Although, you won't find Britain asking for any!
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  147. And then the British Industrial Revolution occurred and the Indian economy became irrelevant.
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  148. Who? The corrupt politicians in Jamaica?
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  149. "India was indeed one of the greatest civilizations in world." If India was so great. Then how come they they were taken over by a small island off the coast of Europe?
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  150. No mate. You got it the wrong way round. The Brits got sick of paying for sewers in places like Bucharest. Now they are out of the EU, the other countries can pay for their own infrastructure. Or get the German's to do it. Like the suckers that they are!
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  151. Wrong! It was acquired by Alauddin Khalji, second ruler of the Khalji dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, when he invaded the kingdoms of southern India at the beginning of the 14th century. So blame him, not the british.
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  152.  @liamward4618  Well said. A nice dose of facts.
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  153.  @michaelrohandodds1850  Wow. That must be one accurate DNA test you got there. It's sad that your African ancestors were captured and sold to Europeans by fellow Africans. Have you tried to get money from Africa, as compensation?
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  154.  @michaelrohandodds1850  One side of history, is as good as the other.
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  155.  @Danzo1212  More facts. Nice!
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  156.  @michaelrohandodds1850  No. It's time to move on. If you don't want to, then that's up to you. You should be thankful, it was Europeans who took your ancestors. If it had been Arabs, you wouldn't be around. They castrated all their male slaves. That's why you don't find a large number of blacks in Arab countries. However, there are nearly fifty million Afro-Americans, living in the USA.
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  157. Britain was colonized by the Romans, Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans. So doesn't that even things out?
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  158. No you wouldn't. You be in the same dirt poor state, as before the British came. Or maybe you hate the modern world the British invented?
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  159. "The Arabs also need to be held accountable." Good luck with that one sunshine!
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  160.  @---re9jc  Yeah. Your imaginary god, would have trouble fighting his/her/its way out of a wet paper bag.
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  161.  @helpfulnotthehelp8778  If he's that clueless. provide evidence to prove that he is.
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  162.  @niasea3484  "You are under indictment for a sin your ancestor committed". Why don't you move to North Korea, where that rule actually applies.
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  163.  @niasea3484  You can quote your old religious book all you like. However, religion has been responsible for more death and suffering, than even slavery could manage.
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  164.  @niasea3484  Western civilisation is by far the best and most superior of its type ever created by mankind. Provide an example to prove otherwise, if you can?
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  165.  @JourneyToMyDestiny  "The descendants of the deceased are the beneficiaries of their estate." What estate? You can't magically give to a living person, something their ancestor did not possess.
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  166. No. The British built the railways in India, because the Indians hadn't invented them. Just as the same as the British built them in many other countries, such as Canada, Argentina, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Ireland etc.
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  167. Like nobody ever worked hard for India's previous rulers. In the day's before the British they would have probably been slaves as well.
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  168. "Today whatever the UK is, its because of India." So India was responsible for the Industrial Revolution and all the modern inventions we all take for granted? You learn something new every day!
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  169. Should the British also be ashamed of ending the Global Slave trade? Especially when n every other country thought that owning other people as property, was acceptable. Without a presence around the world, the British could not have done this selfless for the benefit of humanity.
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  170. Half of the Indian adults can't even read or write. So best of luck with that one buddy.
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  171. Prayers don't work.
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  172.  @ruzickaw  Are the Indians going to give back all the structures the British built there? Without them, India would still be the same as before the British arrived.
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  173. If India got the money. What difference would it make? You can't build a country on pieces of paper.
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  174. Only because progressives want everyone to hate the actions of their forebears. Even though the people today, have nothing to be guilty about.
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  175. No. It was the British who fought for an end to slavery. No other country wanted to give up this immoral practice. They were quite happy for it to continue.
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  176. Slavery wasn't about colour, it was about who you could get control over.
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  177. Actually, you owe the British for ending the global Slave Trade. It cost them at least $1 Trillion to do so, and at great loss to themselves. When are you going to pay your share of this debt? Or maybe you think the trade in human's as property, should make a come back?
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  178. Just go down any street in India to see why. The sh1t, the filth, and large numbers of people seemingly with nothing to do. Yeah. It's easy to blame others who left the country over 70 years ago.
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  179. "Skip economically well off ones like Singapore, uae". Why. Don't they deserve their share too. Or is it just that they don't need it?
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  180. Yeah. Idiot. And the British were the people who ended the world trade in slaves, at the cost of $1 Trillion. Should Britain get a discount for doing that. Other countries like India, though slavery was OK. It took the British to tell them it wasn't. Maybe you think slavery is good too?
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  181. And with that threat, we can all sleep more soundly!
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  182.  @andrewwilliams9312  Correct. It's a made up figure, with no evidence to back it up. The British owe India, precisely NOTHING.
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  183.  @terencewallis540 "Amerika has replaced Britain as the world's best thief & has stolen 100s of trillions more from other countries. Give an example of 100's of trillions, which America has "stolen"?
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  184.  @TheAaronChand "India being an old world cvilization had had steel Niter known as Saltpetre used for making Gunpowder swords steel iron Gunpowder Cannons textiles cotton horses chickens goats pigs cows and immunity to sickness from these animals." If you were so advanced, why didn't you invade Britain. Instead of letting a small island like Britain, invade you? Maybe it's because you were too busy fight amongst yourselves and enslaving each other, to explore the World? "economic history GDP going back to ancient times 1st century millennium AD. 25 percent of the world's industrial output manufactured goods came from India." That was 25% of nothing. It was not until the Industrial Revolution in Britain, that global trade in goods exploded. India had nothing to do with this. Except as a source if raw materials, and a market for British made products.
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  185.  @TheAaronChand  Nobody cares. Without Britain, India would still be the backwards country, it was before the British arrived. India had more slaves than the rest of World put together. As the British people didn't believe in keeping people as property. It was outlawed in India. Also burning widows was made illegal. As well as infanticide. Maybe, you want to turn back the clock, and bring back these barbaric practises?
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  186.  @TheAaronChand  Britain created the Modern World through her inventions and innovations. These she gave to all nations to benefit from I don't know where you get your figures from, but India contributed nothing to these developments. India was a backwards country, with many immoral practises, which the British made illegal.
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  187. Yeah. Let's spread nuclear armageddon into the final frontier of space. That'll solve everything!
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  188. When your walking forward, if you keep looking back, you're gonna fall.
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  189. Best of luck with that. You've had sixty years of independence to bring your country up to Western standards. How's it going? Got your corruption and crime under control yet? There was a TV series called "Jamaica ER", and they were doing an operation with a power drill bought from a local DIY store. Instead of the correct medical implement.
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  190. Yeah. And that's probably why Britain was responsible for creating the modern world. They had people who used their brains to innovate and invent.
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  191.  @AshishSingh-zv2rn  Would Pakistan even exist, if the British had not planned for it?
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  192. Except inventing the modern world we all benefit from! Or isn't that enough for you?
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  193.  @chateauferret  "As a Brit, this is true. :(" So you don't think the Industrial Revolution, where Britain invented the Modern World, with all its advantages, is nothing to be proud of? Or what about stopping the owning of people as property. When Britain spent the equivalent of $1 trillion and thousands of lives, stopping the global slave trade. This was of no benefit to themselves. It was simply done for moral reasons. There were more slaves in India, before the British came, than in any other place on Earth. Even more than in the Arabic World. Slavery had been practised by all cultures, since modern humans evolved. The British were the first nation to outlaw it. William the Conqueror made slavery illegal on British soil. This was upheld by several prominent cases in later century. Also, what about the spreading of good governance, and the rule of law, based on Common Law principles and a rejection of corruption. What about the British giving all their innovations in innovation and technology, to the rest of the globe? Also international trade, which helped to develop economies and infrastructure. Let me know, if I missed something out?
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  194.  @chateauferret  Which is true? That Britain has nothing it can be proud of. Or it has things it CAN be proud of. What's your answer?
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  195.  @chateauferret  Yes. But if you were going to be colonized by any country. Britain was by far the best to be associated with. The other European Empires were much harsher in their treatment of local populations. What are all these "atrocities" you mention? More people died at the hands of their own people in India and Africa, than by the British. Under British control, the killings and slavery stopped and there was relative peace. Of course, when the British left, it was back business as usual. Without Britain little would have changed for the better. If you weigh the pros against the cons of the British Empire. The negatives are far exceeded by the positives.
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  196. How about the millions of British people who worked in appalling conditions in British factories and mines, during the Industrial Revolution. Should their families be compensated too?
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  197. India might have been rich in resources. But were the Indians actually creating any wealth? You needed the industrial innovations of the British to add real value to products.
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  198. If you're talking about Jamaica. Why do you think you're entitled to anything? Singapore and Hong Kong were also ruled by the British. Are they asking for a free handout from the British? Of course not. They are too busy making getting rich.
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  199. Maybe you should have told your colonizers where to stick it. Instead you let them walk into your country and take over.
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  200.  @suraj1311  Correct. They should have told any colonizers to do one.
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  201.  @Byzant1453  "Russia which is best in world." Are you sure about that?
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  202. The British Pound probably was your currency, until you decided you didn't want it anymore.
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  203.  @kabirsingh7630  Maybe the British came to India, to make use of the resources that the Indians weren't?
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  204.  @shivam_nagar69 "then why india and china had the largest gdp befoe british?" The conditions had to be right in Britain. This started in the 17th century. By the Victorian era, Britain was by far. The richest, most advanced and industrialised nation on Earth. All from the invention and innovation of British brains. Never in human history had there been so much change in so short a period of time. Britain created the modern world, as we know it. "You even stole the hindi word "loot" Words are not "stolen", just borrowed. India "stole" a whole language, English, from the British. Not just the odd word!
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  205.  @kabirsingh7630  "why did british come and stayed in india for 200 years." Maybe because the Indians let them?
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  206.  @shivam_nagar69  "whoever speaks english has stolen from UK?" No mate. It was YOU who first said that words can be "stolen". If that's the case, then India "stole" thousands of words. A whole language in fact, English. Except for the fact, that you can't "steal" words! They don't have an owner. Do you want a law making it illegal for non-Indians to use an Indian word. If you do, then you're stupid. "Why you thieves have still kept those stolen artifacts". You can have them back, if you like. It isn't going to make any difference to the present owners. They can just make copies and give the real items back. Anyway, 1,000 pieces of ancient artworks are stolen from Indian temples every year and shipped to the international market, with only 5 percent of the thefts being reported. Maybe you should do something about the Indians of today, who do the stealing? However, whilst your at it. Why not give back everything you got for free from Britain. Or do you want everything to be just a one way street?
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  207.  @shivam_nagar69  The fact that Indians had the word loot, shows that things were being stolen there, long before the British came to India. Your English is poor and maybe you should stop repeating yourself. I have already written a detailed reply to your comments. Why don't you read it?
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  208.  @shivam_nagar69  Yes. You're very trying!
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  209. "why is the queen still on the throne in their own country??" Maybe because the British people want it. You forget that Britain changes by evolution, not revolution. It is very rare that British people will ask for change using violence. That is for other countries.
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  210. Well. It would probably be still under the ground otherwise. The same as the oil in Arabia, if the Europeans hadn't invented the Internal Combustion engine. Anyway, just how many miles does a camel do to the gallon?
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  211.  @MsMrReason  And which country spent the equivalent of one trillion dollars and many lives abolishing the global slave trade? A trade which had been practiced by ALL cultures, for the whole history of humankind. Keeping people as personal property is the most immoral practice imaginably. However, it took one country to abolish it for good. It wasn't done for financial gain, as it cost so much. It was done for purely moral reasons. Therefore you should be thanking that country for freeing the world from slavery, than wanting some free cash handout, which is impossible to apportion. Not all people in the Caribbean, have ancestors who were salve, and how would you determine who were and who were not?
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  212.  @wewuzkangz2505  The English for some reason, went down this path of respect for and equal treatment of all. This was seen in Common law, William I, banning slavery on English soil and then the Magna Carta, giving rights to every English person, no matter their status. It just seemed the obvious thing to do. It's obvious that some other cultures, put strength above respect for others. In some ways, this is seen as attractive by many in the West. In nature, survival of the fittest is the method by which an organism lives or dies. Slavery was also practised by every culture, since the dawn of humans. Abolition is only a recent phenomena. What will be the outcome of this? Is the end of the West coming? Or is it time for the West to get tough again? Is this even possible in the modern technological world, Britain and the West created?
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  213. The British weren't even able to draw a border, due to the mountainous and inhospitable nature of those inaccessible areas. At some point China and India would have had to mark the border, and that could have been the start of a war between the two.
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  214. Britons were enslaved by the Romans, Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans. Are they asking for a handout from these people. Of course not. Don't be stoopid.
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  215. "We see what Britain has done for HK". The British created a powerhouse economy in Hong Kong. Before they arrived, it was nothing more than a few fisherman's huts on some barren islands. The Chinese got a bargain, getting all those $ billions for free.
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  216. The UK has plenty of trade deals, now it is free from the EU.
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  217. And just how do you plan to do that. By force? Why not take it from the many Indians who already live in Britain. I'm sure they would love it, if you took all their money!
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  218. There were more slaves in India, than the rest of the World, before the British came to India and stopped the trade there. You should be thanking Britain for that.
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  219. Humans have been competing against each other since some caveman first picked up a stick as a weapon. Blaming one groups over another achieves nothing.
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  220. No. The British help themselves. If Argentina wants the Falklands, then why doesn't it take them? Or maybe they can't, because their economy is always phuqed. Get your act together and then you might be in a position to get what you want. Otherwise, you're always gonna be playing a losers game.
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  221. So you want a handout, instead of bringing up your country to first world standards? What about the other places where there was slavery? The very word slave comes from "Slav", as in Yugoslavia. Should the people of Eastern Europe be given reparations too? You won't find them asking for them.
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  222. Is that before or after your politicians take their cut?
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  223. Which governments should pay? Would the country that abolished the global trade in humans as property, also be included?
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  224. India got many things from the British, and that doesn't even include cricket!
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  225. Who are you taking about. The rival tribes in the area?
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  226. What are you talking about?
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  227. With DNA testing, it is possible to find out where your ancestors came from and return to that country.
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  228. Freedom for The Shetland and Orkney' Islands from McCrankies' tyranny.
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  229.  @erichhere  Destroyed Africa? "The British brought the rule of law, administration, schools, technology and most importantly ended the global slave trade. Where's the greed in that>
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  230. Only because the people living there didn't or couldn't be bothered get the resources there, out of the ground.
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  231. Try it mate. And all you'll get is a torpedo from an Astute Class Hunter Killer Nuclear Powered Submarine up your arse. And by the way. The Maldives are a small, independent island nation and you want to bully them. Why don't you pick on someone your own size, if you're hard enough?
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  232. India was and still is a basket case. It's amazing the British stayed there as long as they did, without going mad!
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  233. No. It isn't. It's a sign of failure!
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  234. If loot was a Hindi word. Then Hindus had been looting before the British.
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  235. "We are not beggers like you." Have you walked down a street in a city in India lately? There are beggars everywhere. You will need to clean up your act and your country, before you can even consider competing with the West.
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  236.  @panchroh2036  The British did not come to India for "looting", as you say. But for trade. The British developed a global trade network. They traded with many countries which were NOT part of its empire. They could have just sat on their small island like the Japanese did. However, they developed technology, which allowed them to out compete other nations and become the dominant economic force in the world. So India was more civilised than the British? Are you joking. The British had a well established system of education and law. Ever since the Magna Carta in 1214, the common law system guaranteed rights and justice for all. Even slavery had been banned in Britain since the eleventh century. Burning widows and killing children would never have been tolerated. India is still backwards in it's its attitude to certain castes, even today.
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  237.  @panchroh2036  "then why British ruled India for 150 years." Maybe because Indians allowed them to. A few people come from a small island, thousands of miles away and a large country India is so weak, it cannot defeat them. "Britishers really had that they were able to trade with so many countries? they had nothing". Nothing? In case you don't know Britain created the Modern World. A tiny country like Britain invented everything that you take for granted. With all its new industries, but few resources. The only way Britain could supply its factories was from abroad. The Spanish and Portuguese invented nothing, so they just took and gave nothing back. "oldest University of the world". Wrong. The oldest universities are in Britain and Europe. There were none in Asia, Africa or the Americas. "When British came to India from 1765 to 1938, they drained India". India wasn't using its resources when the British came. Britain provided all the infrastructure, from which India benefitted. Maybe Britain should take all this back and then India can go back to the pre-industrial condition it was in before the British arrived. Then Britain will owe you nothing. Or India may even owe Britain for those gifts? "Eastern will rule the world." Before that happens, how about getting your streets clean and treating your poor with more respect?
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  238. Who's a clever boy then? And how is Africa going to improve without outside assistance? China by the way, is the new colonialist of Africa,
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  239. The Phillippines were were part of the Spanish Empire, until the Americans took over. So maybe you should ask Biden about it?
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  240. India was NEVER a superpower. It couldn't even turn back the British when they arrived. India couldn't even defeat a few people from a small island thousands of miles away.
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  241. The British looted nothing. They used natural resources, that would not have been used.
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  242.  @AnonymousReader-er4eg  Do you apologize for the Ottoman Empire or maybe the Mughal Empire. No. Of course you don't. The reason is because you're a hypocrite. There have been empires since humans humans first evolved. Maybe it time you got over it and moved on? At least the British had a lot to give, unlike other empires which just took. They were also better at organizing and running their empire than anyone else. The British first built railways in their own country, to move materials and products around their small island. So it's only natural that they would export this technology to the rest of the world. This also included Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, and new Zealand. These railways were not just built to extract wealth to be sent to Britain. They also transformed the economies of those countries, through movement of goods and people and made the people living there more prosperous. "Britain was built "by African labour and by those indentured from India". Well. Mr. Lewis obviously never visited a cotton mill or went down a coal mine in Victorian Britain. Those places were like hell on earth. He might have sat in a nice clean room writing about such matters, but he would not have lasted five minutes in those places. And whom do you think built those first railways or canals in Britain. Was it Indians? Of course, it wasn't. There was not one Indian involved. Without those first railways. No others would have been built anywhere else.
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  243. What damage? Are you referring to the country, which ended the immoral practise of owning people as property? So stopping more people from having to undergo this fate. Something which had been done by all cultures since the dawn of time, and which the British alone. Finally ended, at a cost equivalent to one trillion dollars and the loss of many lives. All for no financial gain, just because the cause was just.
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  244.  @direaltalktv2828  OK. You might not like it, but what have I written which isn't true? "but no slavery by any nation in history was more brutal than the transatlantic slave trade." That's only because the Europeans were more efficient at it. The Arabs had been doing it for thousands of years in East Africa, and their treatment was the most brutal. They castrated male slaves, a practice which European never did. That's why there are black people in America, but none in Arabic countries. It's interesting how you mention the colonisation and enslavement of Britain by the Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans. However you won't find British people asking for reparations. They don't need or want handouts from anyone. "Moores were black people they conquered England". False! There were NO black people in Britain, until a few decades ago. That's the reason you won't find them in old photos, because there weren't any. You have no evidence to prove otherwise. "Africans didn’t have the technology to match them in warfare". And why didn't they have the technology? The Chinese managed to invent gunpowder. Black people have been on Earth, a lot longer than white people. What were they doing all that time, before the white man?
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  245. Yeah. Well you keep living with a chip on your shoulder and see how far that gets you.
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  246.  @grahamblack1716  If it wasn't for the British, Indians would probably have still been burning widows.
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  247. Correct.
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  248. It was Dutch settlers who ran South Africa. Not the British. All the South African Prime Ministers were Boers. The Boers accepted British dominion, but it was they who were actually governing the country.
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  249. If you want the island of Sabah. Then why don't you ask Malaysia for it back? Or better still take it back, if you're strong enough. Remember, might is right.
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  250. ​ @satheeskumar3653  India should fight whom. China? Maybe that's why India and China have troops ready, in case war starts between the two nations. Or how about India having a war with Pakistan over Kashmir?
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  251.  @satheeskumar3653  Fight back against what? Europe does not rule Africa anymore.
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  252.  @jfost281  Africa was there long before Europe existed. When don't all the African countries get together and reject all Western influence? They could send back all technology the West provided, and go back to the way they were before colonial times. They could still sell their resources to the West, the same as they do now. Just not have any cars, trains, planes, ships, TV, radio, modern medicine and all the other Western inventions.
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  253.  @spacedote  And how much of that bottomless pit of money lost in corruption?
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  254.  @spacedote  "we run away from wars". You have wars just like anybody else. Don't pretend you're any different. It's just that the West has bigger weapons than you.
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  255.  @jfost281  "a unified nation of peoples in Africa". As you know, that ain't gonna happen. The whole of the Third World is riddled with corruption, and that's why these country remain poor. If they cut corruption, they might have a chance. However, that won't occur either.
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  256.  @jfost281  Thanks for the glowing endorsement! I have considered what you wrote. What should the West do to stop corruption in developing countries? Is it right for us to intervene in the affairs of other countries? As for a United Africa. In the past a movement for a Pan-Arab state, which failed. What are the chances of such a similar movement succeeding for Africa?
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  257.  @spacedote  Hopefully, you're the man to fix that. You have the ideas. Maybe you can make a difference for your people?
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  258. Mauritius isn't even closest to the Chagos Archipelago. Diego Garcia is part of the Maldives chain of islands. Why shouldn't they get them instead. Although they don't want them. It's also the USA, who needs the islands for an Indian Ocean airfield. Best of luck with getting them to leave.
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  259.  @ravisharmaruchaya7836  Exactly. You just proved my point. How would it be possible to return territory, so that everyone was satisfied? It will not happen. You can fight in the courts all you want, but "might is right".
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  260.  @ravisharmaruchaya7836 "john pigler British author and journalist.." You mean John Pilger, the Australian journalist.
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  261.  @ravisharmaruchaya7836  Have you ever heard of compromise? It's when two parties make concessions, to reach a desired goal. In the case of the Chagos, Britain retained a small part of their Indian Ocean territory. So the US could have a strategic base in the middle of that Ocean. The Mauritians also got independence sooner. The Chagossians were not natives of those islands, having only been brought there a couple of centuries before, by the French. Their ancestral home is East Africa, where their families had lived for tens of thousands of years. They now live in the UK and Mauritius. Where they have a much better life., than they did harvesting coconuts on some desert island.
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