Yes I know. I was just focusing on the fact, that no country sees it's history objectively.
Totally agree and would add that most countries see the history of other countries in a different light too depending on their feelings for those countries... which can actually change over time as well.
Saddam was a hero when he was sending oil to the west in the 70s and in the 80s when he was fighting Iran he was a hero too, but the invasion of Kuwait and the threat he posed to Saudi Arabia made him enemy number one till they had him killed... which they tried every day he was alive after he became persona non grata.
Brits are using history as just one more tool for the nonending struggle for dominance.
Objectively, they are world's most aggressive nation, with the most bloodied hands.
But you can bet that none of them sees that this way.
They cherry pick the elite from other countries and offer education scholoarships to indoctrinate them even more... didn't work with Assad, but most of the time it is effective.
Every single spot where they have fought for global dominance with the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union, or the modern Russian Federation - they lost.
But they love their fiction... Reilly Ace of Spies springs to mind... they don't make movies about when they were wrong... except by accident.
In 1941, Brits with the Soviet Union invaded and occupied sovereign Iran only to exclude the possibility for shah to align with Hitler. There was no real threat of that, Iranian policy was turning in the demanded direction already. So the operation was carried "just in case", or maybe rather because "we can afford it" way. This chapter of history is not widely known, and seems grotesque if we remind that the Brits seriously considered supporting Finland with its war against the Soviet Union only a year before.
I think about that every time someone stated before that Iran and the Russians might be working together, whether it is handing over F-14s and Phoenix missiles so the Soviets can copy it in the form of the MiG-31 and the AA-9 AAM, (which is BS no matter how you look at it because neither has much in common at all). The Iranians had no more reason to trust the Soviets or the Russians as they have the Americans or British. Fortunately Russia seems to have built up trust again and would not get up to that sort of stuff again and Iran appears to be in the process of joining BRICS and getting some support for growth and development moving forward.
Have a look at this guy making EVERYTHING from scratch - including all the stone-age tools required with nothing but his brains and bare hands.
Fucking amazing stuff!
Some people have amazing practical skills.
I saw one of those survival type TV programmes where they play games and vote people off and one of the guys was super practical and he built their shelter and he hunted for food and created tools and kept their fire going, and a group of women got together and voted him off because they felt threatened by his toxic masculinity. When he left they couldn't keep the fire going and everything fell apart and you could tell they were giving them food and supporting them.
This was quite a few years ago, but I see more recently Bear Gryls had a men vs women survivor type programme and then men treated it like an adventure and broke the survival issues of fire, living area, food, and water, into tasks for themselves and grouped up and each group solved the problem but they still talked and grouped together in bigger groups for more difficult tasks. It was like a big camping trip where everyone forgot everything so they had to go rough for a bit. They really enjoyed themselves. The women, on the other hand couldn't get a fire started and slept in the cold and wet and went round to the guys camp all the time for warmth and mostly to complain which the guys ended up resenting. They essentially were expecting the men to help them. They couldn't work together... they argued all the time and complained all the time and made really really bad decisions. They had some fresh water and decided the best use for that fresh water was to wash their hair and feel nice because attitude is important. Well attitude is important but fresh drinking water is more important.
Obviously these women were idiots and if you got some farm girls off any farm in New Zealand or Australia or anywhere else around the world their practical skills would probably lead to them being as good as the men, but these women were urban princesses waiting to be rescued but talking all the time about how they don't need to be rescued and how they don't need men at all.
The main problem with going out alone trying to survive is that it is much harder, and if you fall and injure yourself, there is a good chance you will just die.
I am a bit of a gun nut, but while many gun nuts think about armageddon or zombie apocalypses, I appreciate the safety and comfort that modern human society provides. Enormous amounts of time and money and effort goes in to keeping roads and footpaths and buildings in order and to transport goods and materials around the place, and running away from that to some forest might sound great... no boss demanding you work harder for less or the same pay, no tax to pay, no noisy neighbours, no local gangs threatening you, etc etc, but mother nature is a bitch... there is a reason you wont find old people living in some forest somewhere... once you can't chase down food for yourself you find vegan diets are not that satisfying.