Their promises/lies to both sides in Palestine helped immensely! As did their Balfour Declaration. Or is that news to you? Or Chamberlain's White Paper of "no partition" to appease the Arab nations that might support Germany? Their years of indecisiveness, prevarications and immediate withdrawal in 1948 did wonders!!! No doubt adding Israel to their intrigues to take the Suez canal in 1956 had no bad effect on the region!

Their favoritism of one side over another in the Sudan has worked marvelously! Nothing like making one group to feel wholly inferior to mend fences!! Why didn't they divide that up like India - unlike India, the Sudanese populations weren't hopelessly intertwined. Too much fun to watch them fight to the death, I guess!

Why not let an asshole English general chop off a small part of an area for an oil concession! Welcome to Kuwait!! Did he set up an area for the Kurds? No. Did he divide off the Sunnis from the Shi'a? No. But for an oil concession he took away the areas richest asset and made sure it was protected - because God knows they couldn't do it on their own - even in '61 the Brits ran in there. An unstable internal mess of a country is the best defense! But, people get bitter and look for other allies. Welcome Nazi Germany's bastard child: The Baath party!!!

For decades Britain did nothing but scare the Muslims in India about Hindu domination. They did everything in their power to create mistrust, fear and hatred between the two sides. They were constantly cutting separate deals between tribal, territorial and religious groupings - such as those with Jinnah during WWII. Then they used this stirred up animosity as the prime reason for not giving India its independence. And, in my opinion, they were glad with the turmoil as justification of their colonial "white man's burden" policies.

So, God Bless the MotherFucking Queen!!