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Yes, all those things would have been accomplished sooner if the British had stayed on their own little island. I agree.
Probably not, to be honest. It's like a chaotic attractor, isn't it. I'm not a moral relativist, so I can't discount the suffering it created. But we tend to do that when looking at ancient history. It's pretty clear a specific version of "industrial civilisation" was spread globally, and the epicentre was Europe, and disproportionately the UK. It's just too recent to view objectively or with a historical lens for most people. That's fair enough. Now its bastard offspring the USA is the major cultural hegemon and the economic consequences of that are staring us directly in the face, with most people choosing to ignore it. And who knows what will happen next?