The demise of the demise of the British Empire was a tragedy from which the world is still suffering.
The demise of the British empire was a good thing for human freedom and for America. The empire created the Opium trade in China and left them ready for what it has become. The entire middle east today is created by Brits drawing idiotic lines and installing tinpot monarchies to do their bidding.
A few hundred million Indians finally were relieved of their masters who held them at gunpoint.
Its a fact that most of the wars around the world today began with the idea that a Brit should be in charge of brown people and hold them in defacto slavery.
It is also well documented that the Americans in the China India Burma theater were appalled at how the Brits treated the Indians and were convinced that the Brits were more concerned about keeping India in line than fighting the Japs in the Pacific.
Same for the fighting in the Mediterranean, Ike felt that the invasion into Europe should have happened two years earlier, but the Brits kept prattling about the soft underbelly of Europe and won the day with Roosevelt. Of course, they failed to mention holding into Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Malta, Suez Canal, Gibraltar, etc.
A lot of Americans died protecting British empire positions.