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Originally posted by Kakero:
This is of course profitable to Germany in the long run. Imagine all the vast resources those colonies can give to Germany ( why do you think European Countries so eagerly want colonies in the first place? )
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Because they
thought they were profitable, at first. Over time though, they came to realise that they were more of a burden than anything. Hence Britain slowly cutting it's ties with most of its colonies over the course of the 20th century, and why the age of direct governmental colonialism inevitably came to a worldwide end.
Of course, global corporate capitalism is another story altogether... [img]smile.gif[/img]