Date: May 22nd, 2025 11:47 AM Author: Odious ticket booth
The upper and middle classes fight over the affections and class support of the base of the proletariat imo
Boer run South Africa would have probably been better for the enrichment of the native south african than what the british sneak thieves pulled on the entire polity
Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:01 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow)
the Boer Wars marked the beginning of the end of the British Empire, the boers=farmers exposed the fraud of the British military "might" and soundly whipped their asses
Date: May 22nd, 2026 11:40 AM Author: Odious ticket booth
Not really anything to do with jews btw
Was more fears that the dutch were going to peel off an Afrikaaner state into their sphere of influence and also i think the projected boerstaat's territory interfered with the logistical plans the brits had for africa in a more general sense
Hard to believe now but the dutch were a massive trade and mercantile empire in the era just preceding that and it wasn't until the 2 world wars that they stopped having any real significance on the world stage