What if after Suez, or after a similar snub after Suez, the UK gets disgruntled with the U.S. and leaves NATO alongside France? How could this happen and what would happen afterwards?
I don't see it happening. Most British political figures realised in the aftermath of Suez that if Britain was to remain a world power it needed the USA to underwrite it - that was really the lesson of the fiasco. There were anti-American noises on the right of the Tory Party but there wasn't anyone there with enough credibility to take the Conservative leadership after Eden resigned.What if after Suez, or after a similar snub after Suez, the UK gets disgruntled with the U.S. and leaves NATO alongside France? How could this happen and what would happen afterwards?
Small point: While France withdrew from the combined military command it never actually left NATO.
Small point: While France withdrew from the combined military command it never actually left NATO.
Some serious problems for NATO if the United Kingdom lost.
The United Kingdom, France and other European countries could form their own version of NATO without the United States? How much of the Empire did the United Kingdom and France have at that time?
It wouldn't matter how much they had left, at least not to Britain. Suez largly killed off any remaining mainstream colonial aspirations.
Russell
Then France and the United Kingdom could just of ignored the warnings from the United States.
Some serious problems for NATO if the United Kingdom lost.
The United Kingdom, France and other European countries could form their own version of NATO without the United States? How much of the Empire did the United Kingdom and France have at that time?
It might prompt the US to support it's remaining European allies a bit more.