This article originally appeared at Pravda , translated from Russian by J.Hawk exclusively for SouthFront So, what forces are determining the current international situation: US, EU, Russia? Or is there something else that's being thoroughly overlooked? According to the official version adopted by the whole world, the British Empire fell apart after World War 2, and its former members entered an organization that has a purely ceremonial character and which is a relic of a bygone era. But, of course, it is not so. It makes sense to have a closer look at the "nonexistent empire." The British Commonwealth was created purposefully at a time when many major powers (US, Germany, and others) have declined. For the UK, the situation was not as critical, but the global changes could not fail to concern it, and it decided to insure itself. Therefore after the Imperial territories conferences of 1926 and 1930, the Westminster Statute of 1931 was adopted which ensured the British authorities' legal power over the dominions and colonies under the conditions of a new political, economic, and informational situation, giving the start to the Commonwealth. Although the Law on Nationality from 1948 cancelled the general provisions concerning subordination within the Commonwealth, nevertheless, many former dominions and colonies acknowledge the British monarch to be the head of their state, with all the associated consequences: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Papua-New Guinea, St. Vincent and Grenadines, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Jamaica. Read More: http://ift.tt/1MZMqHl

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