DBWI: The US does not back the UK/France/Israel in the Suez crises

A wild theory I know, why would the US not back it closest allies, in the 50's against a communist ally. But they were rather annoyed at being left out of the loop.

What would have happened? would the Iraqi civil war have been as bloody? Maybe we could have won the Vietnam war if more British and Commonwealth forces had been deployed? What would the power balance in Europe look like?
What would Britain do in Africa? and would Britain give up HK?

Ok I know the last one was asb but what do you people think?
 
For a start the Franco-Israeli partnership would have grown even stronger, France would continue to be Israel's main arms supplier to this day.

In Britain, I suspect there would have been a very hostile popular reaction against it and a sense that Britain was being betrayed by it's closest friend, a sort of British "stab in the back myth!" Afterwards Britain would have turned away from an Atlanticist stance either towards the Commonwealth or it may have decided to join in the discussions about forming the EEC. Anti-Americanism would take hold of the Conservatives as it already was taking hold of Labour. If NATO survived it would purely be as an alliance of convenience against the Soviet threat and would probably break up when the Cold War ended.
 
ooc: ? Are you going to follow this up?

Cause I really want to hear the story, better be good

OOC: It's a reference to a famous speech given by Aneurin Bevan, attacking the Tories governments intervention in Egypt. He implied that if Britain continued behaving in such a way it would be a 'lead back to Chaos, back to Anarchy, back to universal destruction' and, of course, the eventual extinction of the British people by nuclear bombardment.

Typical Cold War hyperbole, in other words.
 
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