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Didn't Machiavelli write about divide and rule? And Sun Tzu who pointed out the art of war included not having one?
The Roman Empire played the tribes against each other, and their later politics is remembered as Byzantine. I rather think Chimpanzee troop leaders understand it on their scale.
Perfidious Albion may have formulated it as foreign policy, but that didn't cause the Medieval and early modern wars.
I would agree the concept of ‘divide and conquer’ is not necessarily British in terms of its creation, but it’s very much in the bones of our national identity in terms of our class system and we exported that around the world with colonialism.
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Before that, the foreign policy of allying so as to avoid a dominant coalition in Europe, which got us th3 tag3 of Albion perfide.
Standard primate stuff I think, writ large.
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Russia brought it back to us with Brexit.
The Chinese long ago practiced the water empire.