the british are malicious, but still not completely stupid, their way of parasitizing is not as simple as "just export resources", they also played on the difference in the value of their currency in the metropolis and the colony, they also blocked the technological development of countries, especially during the so-called "industrial revolution", which was not a revolution, just the british did not allow the development of technology in their colonies and everything minimally technological produced on their stinking island, selling for mad money to the occupied peoples.
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