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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
UK and US are basically one and the same militarily
At this point you are likely correct.
I think historically as it pertains to Israel and Islamofascism; the US has always been the country which took a realpolitik approach toward tolerating (and often supporting) Islamists and antisemitism, to keep open access to Saudi oil; while Britain generally favored a more principled approach.
Remember, at one point Israel and Britain actually captured the Suez Canal, and it was the US that made them to give it back. Some historians mark this rebuke as the official end of the British Empire.
It is definitely an interesting counterfactual to try to guess how things may have turned out different if the US had taken a more principled, and less realpolitik, approach towards combating Islamism and antisemitism going rampant in the Middle East for the last 80 years.