Originally Posted by Nedusa

It makes you wonder about our so called "special relationship" with the US. It appears the Yanks would only come into the war if we paid them vast amount of money,Gold etc give them many of our foreign Military bases to use ad infiniteum and give them commercial control of large areas of the Middle East for oil prospecting after the war was over.

So basically we paying "protection money" to the School Bully to help us fight our battles. any romantic notions about the Americans wanting to come in and fight the Nazi's were just that....romantic notions. They basically made a financial killing out of the second World War and it set them up as a country and allowed them to become a superpower in a generation.

Special relationship pughhh....they couldn't give a xxxx about Britain never have and never will.

The relationship is only special inasmuch as they say "bend over" and we say "how far".....!!!!