The dirty little secret of decolonization is that the rich countries wanted out. A French minister of finance during the decolonization of Africa expressed his opinion. It was a strange thing: after all, basically, and contrarily to legend, Africa had not really asked to be decolonized, with the exception of communist penetrated Guinean unions; even Algeria had voted massively for the new French constitution, and was given as feed to the FLN nevertheless. So what really happened? Well, something very much related to the present globalization crisis.

That French minister finally admitted the obvious: France was unwilling to keep spending for a fully functioning hospital every 100 kilometers in gigantic Africa. Same with infrastructure throughout Africa. Of course there were other problems, such as Soviet and American imperialism that were determined to push the European powers, weakened by Nazism, out of the planet, if at all possible. Nevertheless, the selfish factor played a very important role. Spain and Portugal, which kept their colonies longer, suffered economically from it (although they were spending as little as possible).

Emphasis mine.

You know, this was as far as I came.

I can't take serious someone who argues in less than two paragraphs that Europe was both selfish and that it wanted to get rid of its cash-cow colonies - those colonies who BTW provided the soldiers that were sort of crucial to beat back the armies of the Axis countries. In fact, you may want to source that French minister and provide some quotes, while you're at it.