Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "Israel Faces U.S. Sanctions - The Second Arab-Israeli War Begins | The Suez Crisis | Part 1" video.

  1.  The Colonel  The US economy was much larger than the whole British Empire, and you can't really count India's population the same as the US' or UK's since India was an unfree colony and generally not very happy to be so, and its economic development had deliberately been throttled by the colonial government and the East India Company in order to keep India a source of cheap raw materials and a captive market for finished goods, so the majority of its people were unable to contribute much economically to the war effort and many were not terribly disposed to contribute in any way at all.
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  2.  The Colonel  I agree that it wasn't subservient. I doubt many people outside the US fully appreciated the size of its industrial economy or the warmaking potential it entailed. IIRC the Washington and London Naval treaties put the Royal and US Navies at parity with everyone else considerably smaller. When you look at the tonnage of warships produced once the war was underway, that seems almost absurd, but the treaties just reflect the political reality that the US had no desire to spend anything like the percentage of GDP the other great powers spent on their militaries. WW2 and the Cold War certainly changed that, though!
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