• SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Britain didn’t give it up out of the random whims of its government. India functionally became ungovernable. This isn’t anywhere near the same thing.

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      22 hours ago

      Oh, there’s an idea. So it can’t really be said to be “willfully given up” on a “random whim” if a military force is preventing you from exerting control over a given region.

      In that case, I do have just a couple of notes for OP.