In such a short time, they completely reversed their role, pulling themselves out of the abyss of being colonized, and even turning around to oppress and colonize other countries and regions.
It's somewhat unrealistic to attribute these achievements to the support of the British Empire and the United States. Both the British Empire and the United States have funded a large number of countries and supported many forces and regimes for a long time.
But who could grow as quickly as the Island Nation into a regional hegemon? No one, or no country, could do it.
Even the British Empire never expected that the little brother they just wanted to raise for regional competition against the Russian Empire would one day grow to the same level (Powers) as themselves.
Yukichiro Tamura and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs praised each other for a while before reluctantly turning the topic to the warships.
