Meant tongue in cheek Canvasback but strangely true. If you think about it the U.S. is my neighbour too with just a strip of water between.

Ted, the reason you never got the Destroyers back is because we paid you for them in full. Britain paid back its Lend Lease debts to the U.S. with the last payments in 2007 and post war loans were paid back the following year. Lagopus.....