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[โ€“] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They also never annexed Ireland.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yup. Not because they couldn't, but because they figured they had enough boggy northern European territory, and would rather spend resources on Africa, Persia or the Middle East, which had nice things they wanted.