There was historical irony in the fact that the United States was originally part of the British Empire before violently separating through the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and then across the 19th century the US came to challenge the same British Empire it had separated from.
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Unidentified Speaker — Wolff Responds: "The Dilemmas Of Europe" Dated February 19,… [4kdbM4L5m3E]Evidence Quote
“there's a certain irony that across the 19th century the British Empire had a harder and harder time holding on and the United States as an independent country came more and more to represent one of the two major challenges to the British Empire”
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