Well, having never actually been in the UK, I’ll have to take your word for it.
Apparently, it is the same sort of thing we experience with the Canadians. I don’t get it. America has always befriended our allies.
Re: your comment about the Brits attitude towards the Ruskies in WW2, I guess they would like us better if we were a totalitarian bully like the Soviets.
How's that for irony?