Special Relationship?

[openedlocket]

I admit, I only found out and researched about this for the sake of fangirling but what I found was VERY interesting.

I’m sure some (if not most) people in this community are aware of the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom dubbed by many as the “Special Relationship.”

To quote Wikipedia (what would we do without it?):

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[alonsoelbueno]

There's certainly something wrong with the anglosaxons, if they consider a text of 30 lines "a really long one":)))

[openedlocket]

LOL =))

It seemed pretty long in MS Word =D Though I'm not an Anglo-Saxon so I really don't know what to make of my "long" rant. Gosh, I fail in description.

[romanitas]

The thing with alliances is they were a huge factor in both World Wars. So the USA and UK would rightly be a bit hesitant to officially be all HAYSUP WE'RE ALLIES ONCE MORE LOL. That was a huge motivation in making the U.N. work after WWII, to avoid alliances on a national level again.

There's no doubt they are close, of course, but I think just how tight the two are also depends on the leaders at the time. \o/

[openedlocket]

The leaders of the time? Good point, but President Obama was interested in becoming full partners until some disagreements between the two nations occurred. So maybe it can also be affected by the happenings during those times.

LOL, yeah. If they just broadcasted it to the world, that would be giving away a tactical advantage.

I didn't know that fact about the UN. Good point though, less nation to nation alliances would mean less possibility for a simple disagreement to become a full-scale war.

[romanitas]

Yeah, there's no doubt tons of factors that go into the ups and downs of it on top of the state leaders. I mean, you probably haven't gotten a closer relationship since Churchill & FDR, and a lot of it was because the two of them were total BFFs, and there was a clear goal in mind.

It's not like it would really need an announcement anyway. It's totally obvious the USA and UK are complete bros. Some sort of official thing wouldn't be surprising, but it'd be a total "excuse me wtf r u doin'."

Yep! It was one of the failures of the League of Nations; it didn't stop alliances from forming again and driving up more tensions pre-WWII. So building up a strong U.N. that could deal with disagreements was much better than taking the chance at falling back to alliances and more total war. There's more to it than that obvsly but. XD

wow tl;dr

[openedlocket]

They were BFFs? Well considering the number of pictures they took together I'd say, perhaps you're right. Yeah, the goal was to win WWII (which they so did because they're just awesome together).

They're brothers indeed *nods sagely* did I ever mention that they have the same national flower and flag colors?

The League of Nations? I've heard a bit about it. The USA didn't join the league, right? I wonder why...

[kittylevin]

Well, there's "I'm Hungary for Turkey" t-shirts. *shot*

I guess we could say that the US and UK have a rocky relationship with many ups and downs. As for alliances, wow. . . any alliance gives its participants a big advantage over non-participating states, so alliances like there were in the World Wars probably wouldn't be fair anymore. But I'm not very smart about politics, so that's as far as I go . . .

I think it's possible to have a special relationship and international bond that's not an official alliance. That would probably be the best for us now. :)

[openedlocket]

You can tell that I made this post because of my addiction to the US/UK pairing, right? Wow, I'm obvious.

Even though, politically, it would be better for everyone else if the two didn't have an alliance (because one powerful country + another powerful country= unbalanced global power) it would be quite fitting (not to mention cool) if they became the United Territories of Great Britain and America, or something of the sort.

It actually has a ring to it, United Territories of Great Britain and America. Hmmm, America would probably come first though *shrugs*

Yay for the Special Relationship! Yay for US/UK! *shuts up*

[kittylevin]

That name has a great ring to it, in spite of everything . . .

And we all fangirl over our favorite pairings. The fact that history ties in is just an excellent bonus!