What you are all after is a European empire, is it not?

The old European empires were under strain, and would soon collapse.

Following the 1939-45 war, decolonization spread through the former European empires.

They will be warmly received by this ever-expanding European empire.

"In the era of great European overseas empires, there was nothing that the people who were subjects could do," he explained.

In fairness, it's still there - unlike those maritime European empires.

By comparison with other European empires overseas, the English could feel they were doing well enough.

It took hundreds of years and oceans of blood to take apart the great European empires.

The practice was eventually suppressed by the European empires that colonised the region in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A European empire retrenches, leaving a distant dependency to fend for itself.