How Far Is The British Empire Worth?

Looking back at the British Empire one cannot help but wonder whether or not the Empire was more of a liability than it was an asset. Though empires that were conquered by the British tend to believe that the British made money at their expense, this though was the original intention is very far from the truth. The truth is that the British Empire spent huge sums of money trying to defend these empires. Thus, according to Jeffery pg.90, there was no benefit that resulted from colonizing the empires. Far from it, the British Empire would have been better off without these colonies. The only people that benefited from such colonization are individual who made the massive investment in their names. However, the British tax payers had to bore the burden of financing the colonial operations. Military defense was especially very costly for the British Empire to maintain especially given the fact that …show more content…
This notwithstanding the fact that there were numerous resources that were used to finance the war, in the end, only lives were lost while the tax payers money was used inappropriately. Some argue that this resource could have been used to build the nation. However, there was no way that the First World War would have been avoided. Although there is claims that the British Empire would have used the isolation policy just like the Americans, the truth of the matter was that to be able to do this effectively, the British had to have a strong navy to guard its territories. However, with the defeat of Russia by the Germany and the terms that were given to Russia as it had to lose a huge part of its territories to Germany, British could not in any way stay out of the war. Thus, although the tax payer’s money was used to finance the war and this was a burden to the taxpayers, looking back, the war was