Why Hate America??

[Pannonian]

Keep telling yourself that.

How about this, Britain is counting down to the time when we will finally be able to say we owe America nothing, because we've paid it all back.

WW2 tech-sharing, meant to be reciprocal but in practice entirely one-way. Technology thus "shared" deemed to be worth several times what Britain received in Marshall aid, lend lease and other loans combined. British statesmen and diplomats of the time, from Keynes to Churchill, weren't impressed. In similar incidents, Eden called the terms for the 50 destroyers "unfriendly negotiations", while Keynes walked out of the lend-lease talks, declaring he wasn't going to "sign over the British empire".

Britain is grateful to America for her help in WW2, but by heck we paid through the nose for it.

[Red Peasant]

WW2 tech-sharing, meant to be reciprocal but in practice entirely one-way. Technology thus "shared" deemed to be worth several times what Britain received in Marshall aid, lend lease and other loans combined. British statesmen and diplomats of the time, from Keynes to Churchill, weren't impressed. In similar incidents, Eden called the terms for the 50 destroyers "unfriendly negotiations", while Keynes walked out of the lend-lease talks, declaring he wasn't going to "sign over the British empire".

Britain is grateful to America for her help in WW2, but by heck we paid through the nose for it.

So true, and probably still paying.