Withdrawal from Afghanistan was the drop that overflowed the cup
Relations between the United States and Britain are in severe crisis
Reagan and Thatcher acted in apparent harmony, but differences between the two countries remained.
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British Prime Minister and current G7 President Boris Johnson called an emergency meeting on Tuesday to coordinate the evacuation of British and Afghan nationals.
The Prime Minister will address the long-term perspective in Afghanistan, which includes the withdrawal of the United States, and questions about the position of China and Russia in the region.
Johnson tried to influence US President Joe Biden to keep troops in Kabul after August 31, when US forces are expected to leave the country.
Former Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair described the US withdrawal as a "foolish" act, saying: "It is not only a matter of the Afghan people, but of our security."
This is in strong condemnation of Washington’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from Afghanistan, which did not come from the far right in Britain, or the anti-American far left, but from an official who took power between 1997 and 2007 and militarily supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The departure of American soldiers caused the most serious crisis in the transatlantic relationship since the 1956 Suez campaign, when President Dwight Eisenhower brutally forced British and French forces to withdraw from the canal nationalized by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The British prime minister's popularity in opinion polls has plummeted amid corruption scandals and divisions within the leadership team, and Johnson came under stinging attack during the emergency parliamentary session on Afghanistan last week.
It happened as his Secretary of State, Dominic Raab, refused to interrupt his vacation when the Taliban took over Kabul.
The British prime minister responded to his political opponents that Biden would have ignored his advice anyway.
On the other hand, it is easy to say that the British armed forces were not able to fill the void left by the Americans, even with the help of European allies.
In his August 17 phone conversation with the US president, Johnson was satisfied with what would happen, saying, "The progress of the past 20 years must not be lost."
American fancy
Born in New York, Johnson has always had a penchant for pro-Americanism.
His hatred of the European Union and his steadfast support for NATO attest to this trend.
However, differences remain with Donald Trump's successor.
The current US president of Irish descent is fundamentally opposed to Britain's exit from the European Union;
Johnson has warned that the protocol on Northern Ireland, with Brussels, should not be reconsidered, or else a transatlantic trade agreement would be in jeopardy.
It is reported that the White House National Security Adviser, Jack Sullivan, studied at Oxford University and worked in the administrations of the pro-England Democrats, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who had good relations with Tony Blair and David Cameron.
unbalanced correlation
Indeed, the engagement has always been fundamentally lopsided in the interest of the United States, and the old "special relationship" between the United Kingdom and its eldest daughter, urged by all British prime ministers, is an outdated position.
Over the decades, bilateral relations have become more ordinary.
Brexit has had an impact on the United Kingdom, which, in Washington's eyes, has lost some of its influence in Brussels.
While military intelligence cooperation remains strong, British diplomatic or commercial accommodation with US positions is less likely.
Disagreements over Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and even the climate made the alliance of the Anglo-Saxon cousins lose its luster.
Official rhetoric asserts that the British-American axis is firm, but in reality, in this conflict-ridden friendship, the dissonance between the two sides often strengthens.
Even at the height of the understanding between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, relations between the two countries were delicate.
During the Falklands War, in 1982, for example, the then prime minister publicly criticized the lack of US military support.
This dispute was followed by another, a year later, when the United States invaded Grenada, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, in the West Indies, without informing London.
The engagement has always been fundamentally lopsided in the interest of the United States, and the old 'special relationship' between the United Kingdom and its eldest daughter, urged by all British Prime Ministers, is an outdated position.
Disagreements over Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and even the climate have made the alliance of Anglo-Saxon cousins lose its luster.
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