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The British empire gave birth to these rogue regimes - this lawless alliance must end
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The British empire was undoubtedly the most successful colonial and imperial project of the last 300 years, if success means conquest and exploitation of vast swathes of the planet.
While the empire effectively ended in the two decades from 1947 to 1967, its impact on the modern world is still unfolding.
Three post-colonial states that emerged from the British empire have had an outsized impact on 21st-century global politics: the United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
These regimes reproduced the racial hierarchies and colonial governance inherent in the British imperial projectAnother such former British colonial regime was apartheid South Africa, but thanks to the global anti-apartheid struggle, and its allies in Africa, Cuba and the Global South, apartheid came to an end.
A new East India CompanyIn the words of Gulf analyst Andreas Krieg, the UAE is recreating the first great British colonial enterprise: the East India Company.