British prime minister outraged compatriots, starting to humiliate himself before the United States

The British Prime Minister David Cameron outraged his compatriots, saying that the UK in 1940 was an “younger partner” of America in the struggle against Nazism - a year before the United States actually began to participate in the Second World War, writes The Daily Mail .

Cameron allowed himself this statement during his first visit to the United States as a prime minister during an interview with Sky News , the article quoted by Inopressa.ru . "I think in life it is always important to call a spade a spade, and it is true that we are a very effective partner of the United States, but we are a younger partner," he said. “We were a younger partner in 1940, when we fought with the Nazis.”

Dauning Street hastened to note that Cameron had in mind the 1940s as a whole. But this did not help: it turned out that the Prime Minister made the same statement in another interview. In an interview with the American channelABC News , recorded in advance, he said: "We were a younger partner in 1940, when we fought against Hitler, we are now a younger partner. I think we should not pretend to be who you are not."

The United States, which had previously rendered only material assistance, entered the war only in December 1941, after the bombing of the Japanese Pearl Harbor. In total, the British lost 44,9,800 people in the war, while the Americans were 418500.

Historian Andrew Roberts, the author of labor on the history of World War II, “The Boule of War,” said: “The Prime Minister is not right. He doesn’t need to put on a turnover. In the first years of the war, Britain had an army of 2.4 million people, while the Americans had 240 thousand - ten times less.” And until 1944, the number of American troops who fought against the Nazis did not exceed the number of soldiers who fought under the banners of the British Empire.

"In 1940, there was material assistance from America, but not military operations against the Nazis. Britain was a leading partner in the sense of strategy until 1943," the historian said.

Retired military personnel unanimously condemned such statements by the Prime Minister, finding him humiliating for the nation, especially for veterans of World War II.