[ozzymandus]

Those brits simply cannot get over WW2. I suppose it was their last great moment.

[ExGeeEye]

Winston predicted it:

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."

18 June 1940

[JimSEA]

Too bad we’ve forgotten the lessons of that time. We are disarming and see Putin as a nationalist only interested is security from his neighbors.

[Sherman Logan]

Those brits simply cannot get over WW2. I suppose it was their last great moment.

Much like liberals can't get over the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s.

It was the last time they were in the right and on the side of freedom, so every issue since has to somehow become a "civil rights issue."