"You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country's one indisputable contribution to Western Civilization: Afternoon tea"
That country of course being Britain.
Always loved that quote because it is so mean spirited, so very truthful, and yet can be expressed soft spoken without need of profanity to make the point
We think on that quote every time we think of the relationship between the US and UK both historically and at present because even though you hear the phrase 'Special Relationship' thrown about constantly (it was first uttered by Churchill in a speech in 1946), it is pretty much a myth
And if there is some sort of 'friendship' it is merely by convenience especially since in 2017 the only true significance Britain has on the world stage is possession of nuclear devices and being 1 of 5 nations on the UN Security Council with veto power
Any other status it possesses is based in large part to allying themselves to us
Sorry to express it so harsh yet honest but when you see, hear and read how despicably that Britain has treated Trump from its media to its leadership, they deserve all the disdain one can levy
Last night President sparked outrage among Britain’s political establishment with a sharp and deserved rebuke on Twitter of Prime Minister Theresa May after she criticized him for re-tweeting British far-right anti-Islam videos.
Trump tweeted: “Theresa @theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine,”
For those who do not pay much attention to such things as US-UK relations, this is not the good ol' days of Reagan-Thatcher where there was mutual respect and liking for the two leaders
Because Britain has allowed its country to be overrun by the ethnic and racial cesspool of society especially Muslims, it has politically tilted very far left in its exaggerated tolerance for them
Politically, they absolute refuse to condemn that cult-faith for the continually churning out of radicalized extremists while moderate Muslims force English society to tolerate their backward customs and traditions in in beliefs and appearance
Trump's response prompted a new round of indignation and anger in Britain, where there have been several major Islamist militant attacks this year,
London’s Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, has repeatedly stated Prime Minister May should withdraw an offer of a state visit to Britain which has already been extended.
How so many Christian people living in London with bloodlines that go back thousands of years to the Normans (French) to the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Nordic people can vote a Islamic parasite to be their Mayor is so hard to understand at first
But peel back the veneer like seeing termites behind the wall, and even though only a very small percentage of them live in Britain just like a small percentage of colored peoples, in London itself they represent over 33% of its population
So like everywhere else, they've taken over by sheer numbers.
Those who complain about the changes are silenced through guilt, political correctness, threats of losing their livelihood or worse.. This of course happens here as well.
It is so deeply sad what has become of Britain over the last 50-60 years for anyone who has any kind of love or appreciation for British history.. Very very sad
So we wanted to take a couple moments and very briefly go over the relationship between our two nations to show that really we've never been true friends/allies but at best worked together at different times for political expedience
So we all know about the American Revolution (1775-1783) so we can skip that
Between 1783 and 1807, the two countries were at peace with trade resumed and London banks lending us the money for the nation to get into deeper and deeper debt (as per Alexander Hamilton's plan)
In 1807, we imposed a trade embargo on Britain in response to them doing so to France which led to Britain interfering with US-French trade and impressed US sailors based on the lie they were taking back British deserters (when they needed to replenish their crew, they'd take American sailors off American ships in open waters and force them at gunpoint to serve their Navy)
Ultimately we went to war with the UK again between 1812-1814..
The conflict was a stalemate but during this period the British army set our capital, Washington ablaze including the White House (amazing we ever forgave those fuckers for that) and from this, the 'Star Spangled Banner' which so many Black Lives (do not) Matter uppities in the NFL kneel originated (a battle at Baltimore Harbor)
Between 1815 and 1860 there were different small tensions over territorial rights in North America that ultimately didn't result in anything major and overall neither country had any much to do with the other
During the Civil War, Britain was tempted to recognize the Confederacy and at one point forced Lincoln to release two Confederate diplomats who were en route to Britain but were captured at sea by a Union ship and arrested
Ultimately Britain did not recognize the Confederacy as a country due to the slavery issue and not wanting to support the losing side, but it made things tense between the US and UK for a while as they assisted the CSA as best they could without provoking all out war between us and them
As punishment for their aid and comfort to the Southern cause, we forced Britain to pay a penalty of $15.5 million in gold in 1871
Tensions between the US and Britain continued through the end of the 19th century over issues in Canada, Venezuela and our Alaska territory among other places.. Nothing where we were close to war but certainly the two countries were not friends in any capacity
Relations began to improve with what is known as The Great Rapprochement,is a term used to describe the merging and sharing of social and political objectives between the US and UK from 1895 until World War I began in 1914.
For instance Britain publicly supported our war with Spain in 1898 when most European nations did not and we supported their Boer War in South Africa even though most Americans really supported the Dutch
Britain and the US also allied themselves with other nations to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China
So now we're at World War I which Woodrow Wilson had promised he'd keep America out of but during this time, American banks and financiers invested heavily in the Allies effort, giving enormous amounts of money to Britain and France while seeing they were close to losing the war and never getting repaid
So the wealthiest of the wealthy and the big banks of the day arm-twisted Wilson to get into the war so Americans could die for their ability to recoup their loans (116,700 Americans dead; over 204,000 wounded in the length of one baseball season)
And for the British, they were more than happy to have more lives to fling over the trenches for their benefit having already sucked out the lifeblood of their youth as well as their former colonies of Canada, Australia as well as Indians and African blacks from colonies they ruled over
After the war ended and we won (Hurrah!) the leaders of US, Britain, France and Italy worked out the post world peace at the Versailles Conference which Britain quietly seethed over how much influence Wilson was having even though to them, the US was only in the war militarily for 6 months.
However, Britain's post war policy, seeing that the US was not a formidable military and economic power on the world stage, decided it was in their best interest to start forging alliances with us; a cardinal principle being to "cultivate the closest relations with the United States."
We all know what happened with World War II, the relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill, etc so for brevity we'll skip it
For the next 60 years, the two nations have by and large been allies but always with tensions over global political issues that fortunately never got past diplomatic tiffs; situations such as Britain's refusal to send troops to assist the US in Vietnam and US forces invading Grenada back in 1982 before giving then British PM Thatcher a 'heads up'
But overall the US and UK are now true friends and sincere allies.. The relationship like any relationship between two nations is agenda driven and self-serving..
For the UK, they know they are a second-rate power, having lost an empire that was once referred to as where the sun never sets within a span of 50 years and post WWII on the political chess board, they had only two choices to ally themselves with - Communist Soviet Union or us
For the US, an alliance with the UK gives appearances at least that we don't always act alone in our foreign policies and Britain acts as a bridge in our relationships with continental Europe and Asia
But right now the two countries are dealing with some tension, mostly the fault of Britain and its warped political left ideologies, much of which the leftist fringe at home feels as well especially an over-tolerance toward Muslims and refusal to condemn a cult-religion for the violence and bloodshed they continually perpetrate
Of course it would be in the best interests of Britain to embrace Trump instead of continually seek to agitate him and by extension the US but if nations' political leadership were intelligent, we'd never have war
So each is forced to deal with the other and be pleasant as possible about it
Just shows you how much even allies can not stand when a leader tries to shake things up, make things better for his countrymen and ruffle the global order.