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Maybe... In most cases western colonialism didn't end because of resistance, but because the west decided it didn't like colonialism.

More to the point, the West could no longer afford colonialism in the post-WWII era. Empires were impractical.

"If you keep getting in fights with your white buddies, you won't have the energy to push around brown people." Now there's a message for our time.

Sad but true.