[hef19898]

Different times, back during the higjt of the british empire war and colonization have been normal things to do. Even the British were quite aggrez, but still not out of the norm. This whole land grabbing kind of war ended to be a thing with WW 2. So you can still be as aggressive as the British back then, it just manifests itself in different ways. Also, nowadays it is a lot easoer to control countries by economic means alone.

[kamaal]

>>Different times, back during the higjt of the british empire war and colonization have been normal things to do.

Indian here. Colonization is just a placeholder term to describe resource grab. There is no real chance England could have annexed India.

Why do all this annexation business, and offer the other country free citizenships? All you have to do is militarily control the country while you can take their resources and ship to your homeland.

>>This whole land grabbing kind of war ended to be a thing with WW 2.

Territorial control often has further ulterior motives. Like grabbing useful land, or creating buffer zones etc.