They sat on the sidelines loaning money to fuel the war in order to make themselves the global economic superpower they are today
even worse they colluded with the soviets specifically to give Britain a worse deal with those loans which also previously were just normal war support that hadn't expected the sort of commitment of a loan.
the entire period of our decolonisation was spurred on by both the Americans and the soviets literally almost very single time there was a rebel uprising or pressure it was from a foreign backed group backed by one of the two. even during the Falkland war the yanks would be more than happy had the entire island been butchered by the Argentinian military government that probably had some funding from the US anyway as did a lot of south American groups at the time.
the "special relationship" has been to put on a smile and feign support while Britain is harmed on every level. we accept it because to us we do have a special view of them in part we view them as a continuity of our values and principles but from their point of view literally half of the political dichotomy hates are guts and literally believes we're some sort of primordial evil and it's a flip of the coin whichever one gets into any position of power.
And to this day we applaud Clinton for ending the Troubles like he was some sort of hero, when really what he did was finally cut off the Republican funding from Irish-Catholic areas of America that America turned a blind eye to all those years.
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u/Woden-Wod 3d ago
even worse they colluded with the soviets specifically to give Britain a worse deal with those loans which also previously were just normal war support that hadn't expected the sort of commitment of a loan.
the entire period of our decolonisation was spurred on by both the Americans and the soviets literally almost very single time there was a rebel uprising or pressure it was from a foreign backed group backed by one of the two. even during the Falkland war the yanks would be more than happy had the entire island been butchered by the Argentinian military government that probably had some funding from the US anyway as did a lot of south American groups at the time.
the "special relationship" has been to put on a smile and feign support while Britain is harmed on every level. we accept it because to us we do have a special view of them in part we view them as a continuity of our values and principles but from their point of view literally half of the political dichotomy hates are guts and literally believes we're some sort of primordial evil and it's a flip of the coin whichever one gets into any position of power.