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Originally posted by gothweb
What Tony Blair did is really quite simple. The United Kingdom needs to have *some* allies. His political opponents have made it impossible for the UK to deal well with Europe. If he lost the US as an ally, his country would be screwed. So he had to side with the US. It's called foreign policy-- and Bush should buy a book or two on the subject.
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The UK has always been fairly-to-strongly allied with the US. And vice versa when the big boy was the British (once independance was out of the way). We've never ever been *that* closely allied to France and Germany etc. although obviously interests converge from time to time.
The crunch time is when/if we join the Euro. Even tho the UK economy is tini compared to the US, it's still the fourth largest in the world and having sterling consumed by the Euro will boost the Euro and pressure the dollar. That makes for an interesting future re: the two countries relationships after that. Would we goto war partly to protect the PetroDollar at the expense of the PetroEuro if we were a Euro country ? Interesting question...