Spears and Machine Guns

Whenever you suddenly wonder why one country is rich and the other not, always turn to history.

England today is a very rich country. And it’s not an exaggeration to say that capital was built on bones and blood. The number-one industrial power, like grown on a nutrient solution, rose on dozens of millions (exactly!) of dead bodies of Indians.

And it could have remained a third-rate European power if things had turned out differently—if it hadn’t risen on billions stolen in gold and on millions of corpses.

“India’s plains turn white with the bones of weavers,” a British governor-general, Lord William Bentinck, reported to London in 1834.

No matter how hard many on the Island of Nightmares try to forget it, those words can’t be erased from Great History…