You big up the generous Marshall plan without even registering it was the Anglo-American loan agreement that ripped the wheels off the British economy following

You big up the generous Marshall plan without even registering it was the Anglo-American loan agreement that ripped the wheels off the British economy following the war. The US had a choice at that point about whether it wanted to keep the British Empire alive and it chose not to, only the insight of the Marshall plan prevented it from sliding entirely into ruin but its effectively the "same" hand behind both acts and I believe any "thanks" is diplomatic drivel for the sake of a world of US hegemony. > a British state that hadn't come to terms with the world as it was or would be. Brexit demonstrates this still isn't the case among the boomers who were brought up on post-war culture that celebrated the victories and "glory" of war which avoiding the ugly non-PG-13 parts that provide the much needed context of those pyrrhic victories.