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This is going bizarre places. I don't think anyone's ever tried to define world policeman as "tries to change other countries into lesser copies of itself." before. If we look at the standard definition from the link upthread: Global policeman is an informal term for a state which seeks or...

But as we've seen in this thread, before 1945 people called the UK the world's policeman (Or, language having drifted since then, the Global Policeman) and they filled the same role. So that statement is provably untrue.

You're arguing it doesn't count because of this specific nitpick definition you just made up that nobody else has every felt was part of "world policeman." You're also arguing from a position of complete falsehood in the first place, claiming that the Empire never tried to change another nation...

It's as @GoldRanger says. The world's normal state is either a Great Power playing world policeman or several powers jockeying for that position until one comes out on top. I'm not concerned with extreme exactitudes here since World Policeman isn't that rigorously defined anyway. I don't feel...

So now we're entering that weird area where your come up with increasingly narrow definitions to try to salvage your position, and claim this doesn't count because X and that doesn't count because Y? India doesn't count because the British exported British culture to it and made it British, and...

The Opium Wars say hello. Try again, maybe read a little history first.

So your opinion is dependent on the British Empire having some sort of hivemind-like singular will, wanting only one thing for about three and a half centuries? That's what you're choosing to go with? As is your opinion falls apart completely the second you look at what the Empire did...

Again, you're just making a distinction that doesn't exist. Here's the thing, the difference between pirates and legitimate navy action is essentially whether or not the government sanctions it. That's how it works because government is the highest authority. Similarly the difference between...

You're making a distinction that doesn't exist in real life.

You mean when the Royal Navy was the world's policeman? Because the Royal Navy was serving that role, they just weren't called that. Coincidentally it provided the same kind of hegemon benefits though, allowing the British Empire to spread across the world and protecting it's trade, while...