And China vs Japan too, over islands acquired by Japan in the first Sino-Japanese War in the 1890s.

Tony Blair would have given them the islands just like he handed over Hong Kong without even bothering to ask the residents if that's what they wanted.

The question is how they acquired them not where in the world they are. When Britain first laid a claim to them they were uninhbited.

-their central government, even if the region's population would prefer to be part of a different country(or independent).

Well that's not always as simple as you'd think. The controlling cases on the matter in international law, the Åland Islands case and Kosovo, established the priciple that the status quo should be maintained *unless* the population of the region in question is being neglected or persecuted by-

Specifically, prior to 1904, Japan and Russia each owned 3 of the 6 Kuril Islands. In the 1904 Russo-Japanese War Japan took the 3 Russia owned islands, and in WW2 Japan asserts they gave back only the 3 they got in 1904 but Russia asserts Japan gave up all 6 and currently occupies all 6.

They pretty much spent all of the money the Empire generated on the military forces required to stop the British from stealing that money.

And then the British blew up their navy, stole the money anyway, and their colonies all broke away.

Like, were you really a colonial power if colonialism didn't make you rich and you lost your empire before 1830?

To be fair everyone kind of forgets that Spain was a colonial power because they lost their empire before the 2nd industrial revolution even kicked off.

Yeah you do in fact have to hand it to him this time.

"i got your back brother" but its for a boer and a zulu hating zimbabweans

OP deleted their post, what did it say?

The highest crime you can commit in British society is to make someone with more social status than you embarrassed or upset.

It was 1918 and the two armies didn't exactly have a lot of intel on each other. The Reds simply had no idea what the whites were thinking.

Exile was the original intention and the Bolsheviks were in the middle of negotiating safe passage for the Romanovs to Britain.

Even the Bolsheviks that thought it was neccessary(Lenin included!) said it was done as a last resort because the White Army was going to capture them imminently.

The highest crime you can commit in British society is to make someone with more social status than you embarrassed or upset.

The UK obsession with "protecting"children is more of an obsession with controlling them and making them behave in a way that conforms with the UK's extremely strict social rules.