Status Updates From سادة الصحراء: الصراع الأمير...

"The beleaguered high commissioner of Aden had this to say on his meeting with Dennis Healey: "When the British Empire sinks beneath the waves, it will leave behind only two monuments to it's splendour: The game of Association Football, and the phrase 'Fuck Off'"

>Natives are tired of British presence
>British ask Americans for help
>Americans ignore them
>Brits turn to elaborate scheme to retain influence
>Are outbid and outschemed by Americans with their infinite money machine
>Americans step into same roles as Brits but with local proxies
>Brits retreat in disgrace, honourable viscount ambassador in charge dies of stress induced stroke
Repeat x20 and you have the gist

Reading Our Man in Havana got me in the mood for early cold war colonial flavoured shenanigans. I have a feeling it will be a depressing read watching British imperial ambition slide into the gutter and the rise of American ascendancy in the region