If Peace is good then War is bad. In the last 324 years the UK has fought a total of 843.5 years of war*. Compare this with Russia which by the same method has fought 641 years of war.
That is a lot of dead people and a lot of lives destroyed.
There is certainly no evidence that the Britain represents Peace. Britain is the pre-eminent cause of war around the world. That Britain started WW2 by declaring war on Germany underlines this.
If Peace is the result of good governance then the amount of War that Britain is involved in is the sign of extremely bad governance.
*Method: for wars starting and ending in the same year a duration of 0.5 years is assumed. No distinction is made between internal and external wars or between defence and attack. The assumption is that good governance can avoid hostility.
Britain's Wars 1700-2024
1700 1721 The Great Northern War
1701 1714 The War of the Spanish Succession
1715 1726 Civil war: Post-Spanish Succession Caribbean Piracy
1715 1716 Civil war
1715 1715.5 Jacobite rising
1717 1720 The Nineteen Uprising in Great Britain
1721 1725 Dummer's War
1739 1748 The War of Jenkins' Ear
1740 1748 The War of the Austrian Succession
1741 1745 Jacobite rising
1749 1754 The Second Carnatic War
1756 1763 Seven Years' War
1758 1761 Anglo-Cherokee War
1760 1760.5 Tacky's War
1763 1766 Pontiac's Rebellion
1766 1769 First Anglo-Mysore War
1774 1783 First Anglo-Maratha War
1775 1783 American Revolutionary War
1778 1783 Anglo-French War
1779 1783 Anglo-Spanish War
1780 1783 4th Anglo-Dutch War
1780 1784 2nd Anglo-Mysore War
1789 1792 3rd Anglo-Mysore War
1793 1797 War of the First Coalition
1797 1802 War of the Second Coalition
1793 1793.5 Ibn Ufaisan's Invasion
1795 1796 Second Maroon War
1795 1816 Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
1796 1808 Anglo-Spanish War
1796 1818 Sri Lankan Wars
1798 1798.5 Irish Rebellion
1798 1799 4th Anglo-Mysore War
1801 1922 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1801 1807 Temne War
1802 1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
1803 1805 First Sri Lankan War
1803 1803.5 Civil War: Emmet's Insurrection
1803 1803.5 British Expedition to Ceylon
1803 1805 War of the Third Coalition
1806 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition
1806 1807 Ashanti–Fante War
1807 1809 Anglo-Turkish War
1807 1814 Gunboat War
1807 1812 Anglo-Russian War
1807 1814 Peninsular War
1808 1809 Travancore rebellion
1809 1809.5 War of the Fifth Coalition
1809 1809.5 Persian Gulf campaign
1811 1812 4th Xhosa War
1812 1815 War of 1812
1812 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition
1815 1815.5 Second Sri Lankan War
1815 1815.5 Hundred Days
1817 1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
1821 1829 Greek War of Independence
1823 1831 First Ashanti War
1824 1826 First Anglo-Burmese War
1827 1827.5 British attack on Berbera
1828 1828.5 Revolt of the Mercenaries
1831 1832 Baptist War
1833 1840 First Carlist War
1834 1836 The 6th Xhosa War
1837 1838 Rebellions of 1837
1838 1839 Pastry War
1838 1842 First Anglo-Afghan War
1839 1842 First Opium War
1839 1841 Second Egyptian-Ottoman War
1845 1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
1846 1847 The 7th Xhosa War
1847 1901 Caste War of Yucatán
1848 1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War
1849 1849.5 Battle of Tysami
1850 1853 The 8th Xhosa War
1850 1864 Taiping Rebellion
1852 1853 Second Anglo-Burmese War
1853 1856 Crimean War
1856 1860 Second Opium War
1856 1857 Anglo-Persian War
1857 1858 Indian Rebellion of 1857
1863 1863.5 Bombardment of Kagoshima
1867 1868 British Expedition to Abyssinia
1867 1874 Klang War
1873 1874 Third Ashanti War
1878 1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War
1879 1879.5 Anglo-Zulu War
1879 1882 'Urabi Revolt
1880 1881 Basuto Gun War
1880 1881 First Boer War
1881 1899 Mahdist War
1885 1885.5 Third Anglo-Burmese War
1888 1888.5 Sikkim Expedition
1891 1891.5 Anglo-Manipur War
1893 1894 First Matabele War
1896 1896.5 Anglo-Zanzibar War
1896 1897 Second Matabele War
1897 1898 Cretan Revolt
1898 1899 Second Samoan Civil War
1899 1901 Boxer Rebellion
1899 1902 Second Boer War
1900 1902 Mahsud Waziri blockade
1901 1902 Anglo-Aro War
1903 1904 British expedition to Tibet
1908 1908.5 Bazar Valley campaign
1914 1918 First World War
1918 1920 Estonian War of Independence
1918 1920 Latvian War of Independence
1918 1920 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
1919 1923 Turkish War of Independence
1919 1919.5 Third Anglo-Afghan War
1919 1920 Kuwait–Najd War
1919 1921 Irish War of Independence
1920 1920.5 Great Iraqi Revolution of 1920
1922 1922.5 1922 Burao Tax Revolt
1922 2024 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1923 1923.5 Adwan Rebellion
1927 1930 Ikhwan Revolt
1936 1939 Great Arab Revolt in Palestine
1939 1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
1939 1940 S-Plan
1939 1945 Second World War
1944 1947 Afghan tribal revolts of 1944
1944 1945 Insurgency in Balochistan
1942 1944 Northern Campaign
1946 1948 Greek Civil War
1945 1945.5 Sheikh Bashir Rebellion
1945 1949 Indonesian National Revolution
1945 1946 Operation Masterdom
1946 1948 Corfu Channel incident
1948 1960 Malayan Emergency
1950 1953 Korean War
1951 1952 Anglo-Egyptian War
1952 1960 Mau Mau Uprising
1954 1959 Jebel Akhdar War
1955 1959 Cyprus Emergency
1956 1957 Suez Crisis
1956 1962 Border Campaign
1958 1961 First Cod War
1959 1959.5 Upper Yafa disturbances
1962 1975 Dhofar Rebellion
1963 1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
1963 1967 Aden Emergency
1968 1998 The Troubles
1972 1973 Second Cod War
1975 1976 Third Cod War
1982 1982.5 Falklands War
1982 1984 Multinational Force in Lebanon
1990 1991 Gulf War
1992 1995 Bosnian War
1998 1998.5 Operation Desert Fox
1998 1999 Kosovo War
2000 2002 Sierra Leone Civil War
2001 2021 War in Afghanistan
2003 2009 Iraq War
2011 2011.5 First Libyan Civil War
2014 2024 Operation Shader
2023 2024 Operation Prosperity Guardian
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom
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