Britain’s colonial self-defense claims caused losses to the very Europeans it protected

Evidence

It scarcely seemed to matter that Britain caused such loss to the Europeans for whom it claimed to be acting in self-defence. ‘The patience … of the British public was exhausted’, we are told, and ‘something effectual’ had to be done. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 409

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British colonialists framed empire as a burden borne for Europe’s sake