Churchill not popular with those in the know about his choices as First Sea Lord, Lusitania, WWI GALIPOLI, and as PM in WWII with respect to interfering or not with Nazi deaths of Jews in the Holocaust
While the US made a final settlement of the Soviet Union's WWII debt in 1946 for a fraction of what they still owed and lifted up Europe with the Marshall Plan, the US did virtually nothing to help the post war UK. It took 20 years before the UK finally recovered from the economic devastation of the war and until 2006 to repay the Americans for the loan. The US gave the post war UK a good, old-fashioned American skinning. Incidentally, the initial material the UK got from us were some ancient naval vessels and some WWI era armaments. Useless stuff. Why in the world the Brits still feel any kind of "special relationship" with us is beyond me. Utterly foolhardy for them to leave the EU in really ignorant hopes of forming stronger trade ties with the US.
Nancy agrees with Nancy!
Churchill not popular with those in the know about his choices as First Sea Lord, Lusitania, WWI GALIPOLI, and as PM in WWII with respect to interfering or not with Nazi deaths of Jews in the Holocaust
While the US made a final settlement of the Soviet Union's WWII debt in 1946 for a fraction of what they still owed and lifted up Europe with the Marshall Plan, the US did virtually nothing to help the post war UK. It took 20 years before the UK finally recovered from the economic devastation of the war and until 2006 to repay the Americans for the loan. The US gave the post war UK a good, old-fashioned American skinning. Incidentally, the initial material the UK got from us were some ancient naval vessels and some WWI era armaments. Useless stuff. Why in the world the Brits still feel any kind of "special relationship" with us is beyond me. Utterly foolhardy for them to leave the EU in really ignorant hopes of forming stronger trade ties with the US.
The UK really suffered after WWII. No doubt.
So excellent.
Who’d a thunk Scaramucci would have emerged the intellectual?
Nice compliment to my recent trip to The Churchill War Rooms in London. A place I would highly recommend to everyone. Great article!
Excellent, thanks
Excellent take on the Special Relationship and our belief from ‘across the pond’ that the US will come out from the shadows brighter and stronger!
Thank you , I agree with Nancy!!
I needed to read this , this morning!
Dick R
Beautifully written