America planned to destroy Britain

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....chemical-weapons.html

How much differently would Britain be now, if America's plans had been implemented?

Should be interesting viewing Channel 5 tonight 8.00pm - 9.00pm.

[emmie]

I did read something about this the other day. Might well watch, see what our colonial cousins had in store for us.

[Zeuhl]

<<destroying Britain's trading ability and bringing our country to its knees>>

Well as it turned out, leaving the British Empire to face Axis Forces until 1942 did pretty much the same job. Lend lease support cost us dear.

In the 1930s a large proportion of US assets and their economy was owned by British interests; corporate, private and government. By 1945 they'd almost all gone and this country was broke.

[emmie]

well that makes for unedifying reading i must say.

[Gromit]

It was probably safest to bankrupt us out of our Empire. A pocket our debt repayments for 60 years.

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't it a military exercise by strategists in the Pentagon rather than a real plan?

[emmie]

SR, doesn't look that way. After all when WW2 was finally over and the peace was signed, didn't the powers that be divvy up the spoils, just like they always do. And Britain only finished paying off the loans from the USA in 2006.

[emmie]

AOG i must say you pulled the rabbit out of the hat on this one. Cracking programme.

[emmie]

Sandy if you are around, it was a real plan, very scary.

[Gromit]

It is worth reminding ourselves, that it took the US three years to decide which side they were on at the outset of WWII. And they only on our side because they feared a United Europe.

So nothing much has changed there then.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// And they only on our side because they feared a United
Europe. ///

Nothing to do with the small matter of Pearl Harbour then?

[Gromit]

The US had already cracked Japanese secret codes prior to Pearl Harbor, so it is still a mystery how they were caught so off guard that day.

[sandyRoe]

It was a great casus belli.