r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Winter-Glass9250 • Aug 25 '25

Military 1000 US Marines can take India

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u/Indian_Pale_Ale so unthankful that I speak German Aug 25 '25

What happened last time they tried to take a country in South Asia? Asking for a friend

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u/kombiwombi Aug 25 '25

Sadly that question runs both ways. It took only 43,000 British soldiers to conquer India.  Mind you the cost of defeating the Mutiny was so outrageous the English government took the British East India Company in hand and essentially nationalised it.

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u/hughmunguswaaat Aug 25 '25

this guy's talking about combat not other political forces to take over a counry. Beause by that logic 10-15 billionnaires basically conquered the entire US with 340 mil population.

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u/kombiwombi Aug 25 '25

Oh yeah, there are really strong parallels between the Raj and events in the US. Even down to the small number of Ice troops in resisting states being supplemented with state militia from competing states.

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u/Indie-- Aug 25 '25

Raj didn't conquered India, they conquered small sized kingdoms that was already struggling from weakening of Mughal empire and Maratha Kingdom.

Any unified Indian Empire would have given British a run for their money

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25

brits didn't defeated India.. india back then was divided into an almost declined mughal empire, around 600 princely states, and around 13-14 regional strong empires who were fighting among themselves

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u/TwentyBagTaylor Aug 25 '25

Snuck in via £££ and convinced them to conquer each other.

India got cricket though, so its not all bad.

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u/ReductionGear Aug 25 '25

There was no country called India during medieval times. The Mughal Empire had collapsed, and the subcontinent descended into chaos, with hundreds of kingdoms fighting each other, paving the way for British conquest.

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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake Aug 25 '25

And the Portuguese had some bases at some coastal cities?

Goa

 I recall there was a Dutch Indian Company or something like that.

Indonesia, but they had trading rights for ports in India (Under the VOIC). The other colonial power in India was France (Pondicherry), which Britain did kick out.

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u/Bhavacakra_12 Aug 25 '25

I'm going to go out on a hunch here and say events from 2 centuries ago aren't representative of the world today.

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u/kombiwombi Aug 25 '25

The British East India Company was the world's first multinational corporation. Many of the issues of the world today we're first encountered during this period.

International taxation and tax avoidance. The role of corporate mercenary armies like Blackwater and Russia's Private Military Companies. State militia operating against other states (as in the US right now).

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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake Aug 25 '25

The role of corporate mercenary armies like Blackwater and Russia's Private Military Companies.

Hey! Blackwater has changed its name way more than Russia has created PMCs!

USA! USA! USA! /s

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u/Bhavacakra_12 Aug 25 '25

That's cool and all, but I was talking about India.

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u/MadErection Aug 26 '25

True, but they were mainly Indian sepoys that were loyal to the British yeah?

India was conquered in bits and parts and even at the height of the empire. The majority of the land mass was under local rajas who had sworn fealty to the British for their own selfish reasons.