Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29686889-20180430135630/@comment-33314856-20180704151618

The Americans wouldn't control those countries, they'd be controlled by them. American citizens wouldn't have the rights to freedom as they do now, and everything would be controlled under a monarch. Think of the cultural impact, if Britain had won the revolution, many American things may not have come to be. The majority of the world would be stuck with a British culture, without any potential cultural diffusion. The energy and money would be a good thing, I will admit, but that article says WWI and WWII would not have happened, which I will call out as bullshit. Both World Wars were directly caused and rooted in European affairs, and had the United States not intervened it's highly likely the Central Powers/Axis Powers would have won. America being under Britain's imperial rule would not have preveneted Franz Ferdinand's assassination nor the failures of the Treaty of Versailles, if anything it would make matters worse, imperialism was one of the main causes for WWII, and Britain would have many more enemies if the United States' revolution had not caused a change in Britain's governmental system