How on Earth did Britain lose the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Ireland, India,

[Superboy]

Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Burma, Qatar, Bahrain, Malaysia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, British Guiana, British Honduras, Malta, Cyprus etc. which all became independent sovereign states and lost Hong Kong to China and now mostly only have the mainland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, Falklands, Bermuda left?

 

[Steve781]

Ran out of money and could no longer keep nationalism in check in Asia. Could have stayed longer in the case of Africa but didn't want a Franco/Algerian style war.

 

[Penguin]

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