[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Zee

There are benefits of forging relations with your default allies though. Combined, the UK and South Korea could force some counter leverage on the US in the event of any kind of conflict of interests, e.g. when the UK voted against going into Syria and relations became frosty between the US and UK. If the UK had better relations with some of the US's other allies, they could only potentially benefit, there would be no drawbacks and the US wouldn't be able to do anything about it. It's a bit like how Russia has control over all of the Central Asian -stan countries and some Eastern European countries yet none of them have real relations with each other; it's all down to Russia.

umm....what? relations didn't get frosty between the UK and US over Syria at all. The US was elated that the UK vetoed the Syria thing. Do you really think that Obama wanted to go into Syria? The UK provided the perfect out for him. There was no frosting of relations at all.

Obama has made it clear that he doesn't want to enter any military conflicts, and he's been scaling back American military involvement all over the world the entire time he's been in office, which is really pissing off saudi Arabia and Israel.

The UK parliamentary vote against military action in Syria was a godsend to Obama. He was pleased as punch. It was the French who were trying to ramp up support for a Syria military action, and the Israeli's and Saudi's, but the UK parliament vote gave Obama the perfect excuse to get out of it.