Well, if we have a look at the
average British soccer fan we can excuse him for these silly remarks. It's genetic, so not his fault. The UK might have won the world cup once at home in Britain, in contrast Germany did win 3 world cups and the other axis power Italy even 4.
It is clear that WW1 was intended and won by Britain, no question about it. Reason: Britain did not like the existence of a united Germany at all and was determined to see it smashed. Another greavance was that Germany made much better products then these islanders, basically they were outperformed. WW1 was fought because of jealousy, in the form of Germanophobia. On 2nd thoughts, Britain did not win WW1 at all. They were on the losing side, together with France, certainly after Russia was defeated in the east. I repeat: Brits are unable to defeat Germany, even if helped by France and Russia. Is that something to be proud of, I am asking you? Why did Britain win after all? Because the most disloyal people on this planet, the youknowwho's decide to strike a deal with the British: "you give us Palestine, and then we sick the Americans, who we own, upon the Germans". So said, so it happened. And that made the difference, not because the British somehow defeated the Germans, that is impossible as they themselves know all too well, knowledge that has been made immortal in the famous statement by Gary Linnaker enshrining the British inferiority complex towards Germany: "22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win". Besides, Germany was not defeated at all, although in a difficult position. The trouble was that the Germans believed that Americans were trustworthy and could be believed on their word (the Poles in WW2 made a similar mistake). They accepted a peace on terms as proposed by Wilson. Nothing later materialized, causing deep justified resentment in German against the alllies.
Regarding WW2, the biggest loser in terms of territory no doubt was Britain. By far. Before the war Britain's
Lebensraum, uh sorry... empire encompassed 25% of the planet, nowadays Britain has great trouble in even keeping Scotland and Wales in the sorry remains of that empire. In 1939 Britain had 2 options: start an alliance with the only political entity that had friendly feelings towards them, namely Germany. Or let them send in a war with Germany by a party that was not even an allie of Britain and had no other intentions than stripping Britain of it's empire. The Brits, the natural born losers that they are, obviously chose the Americans. Britain gave Europe to the enemies of Europe on a silver platter: the US and USSR. That Britain lost it's empire is of little comfort to us other Europeans, who really resent what Britain did to us.
Nowadays Europe is united, with Germany and France running the show and with Britain sidelined. And they will be even more sidelined (as in thrown from Mediteranian beaches) when the revisionist story about the 20th century will emerge. Germany is the largest exporter in the world. And Britain? Britain is good at binge drinking with detrimental effects on the brain leading to silly statements as quoted by you.
The Spanish had the 16th century, the Dutch the 17th century, the British the 18th and 19th century, the Jews the 20th (via the USA and USSR). It is likely that the Germans will finally have their well-deserved century, namely this century, at the heart of a united Europe, including Russia, and excluding any Anglo influence.
