Being overbearing is the hallmark of a power when it is at the height or the decline of its power same for the British and the same for the Roman empire and definitely the same for the French and the Chinese in their time

If you are at the top the only way is down and being at the top carries a lot of jealousy and a lot of enemies

Also there's a lot of bad blood between the British and the Europeans which kind of spreads to the other english-speaking people's

It was English foreign policy which kept Europe burning for over a century during the competition or the second Hundred years War

Between England and France from the late 17th to the early 19th century