I'd like to add to this, last time Americans were deployed in Britain properly (WW2), they were made to watch training videos about how they need to be less racist.
They then tried to stop black soldiers going into the British pubs anyway, so some Brits started barring US soldiers from their pubs unless they were black.
In a lot of ways, Britain did the first 'woke' capitalism. Ending the slave trade on their own terms has turned out to be a two hundred year masterstroke in letting themselves off the hook, while retaining control over all their colonies (for a good extra century)
Then the war happens - all they had to be was less racist than Hitler, and they needed manpower anyway, so they enlist the whole commonwealth into their ranks.
Post war, they encourage immigration to Britain
not only to rebuild the country, as the classic Windrush narrative goes, but also because if they don't, the commonwealth will side with the various communist revolutions going on. Winston Churchill is even quoted to have said so.
I'd like to add to this, last time Americans were deployed in Britain properly (WW2), they were made to watch training videos about how they need to be less racist.
They then tried to stop black soldiers going into the British pubs anyway, so some Brits started barring US soldiers from their pubs unless they were black.
Imagine being so racist you need the Brits to tell you to cool it
Satan: “whoa, that’s a little evil even for ME!”
In a lot of ways, Britain did the first 'woke' capitalism. Ending the slave trade on their own terms has turned out to be a two hundred year masterstroke in letting themselves off the hook, while retaining control over all their colonies (for a good extra century)
Then the war happens - all they had to be was less racist than Hitler, and they needed manpower anyway, so they enlist the whole commonwealth into their ranks.
Post war, they encourage immigration to Britain not only to rebuild the country, as the classic Windrush narrative goes, but also because if they don't, the commonwealth will side with the various communist revolutions going on. Winston Churchill is even quoted to have said so.
A similar thing happened in Australia, culminating in the Battle of Brisbane