Some English politicians still lean on the phrase
'The Special Relationship' when they talk of the USA,
but there is no longer any such relationship
and when the USA had 'special friends'
such kinship was never confined to the UK.
There was one though, between 1941 and 1945,
when the richest 'free' country in the world,
the head of the thirty allied powers,
extended its resources to poorer countries
to fight the axis powers, Germany Japan and others.
The loans went to England and the Soviet Union.
When the war ended
the arrangement ended very abruptly
much to chagrin of those poor counties
looking to develop from a low base
and the arguments about the debts
lasted for decades after.
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