A viewer argues that Warspite was too worn out to save and that the British Empire was flat broke. The response accepts that some parts of the empire were financially exhausted after the Second World War. Canada, Australia, and South Africa complicate a universal description, however. Britain, the dominions, and the wider empire did not share one postwar balance sheet.
Notable Point · 23:15-23:41
Why 'the British Empire was flat broke' is too simple
The postwar empire contained financially exhausted areas alongside Canada, Australia, and South Africa, whose circumstances were different.