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> For instance the Brits likely never even considered the possibility, in a million years, that they could lose in a military conflict with the colonies.

They likely couldn't. The US independence war was part of a larger war between the French empire and the British empire. The british empire was also at was with Spain and the Netherlands at the time.

> Enjoining WW1 was completely unnecessary

Britain didn't start WW1.



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