Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Wasu masu sukar sun musanta wanzuwar "dangantaka ta musamman" kuma suna kiranta tatsuniya. Tsohon shugaban Amurka Barack Obama ya dauki shugabar gwamnatin Jamus Angela Merkel a matsayin "abokin huldarsa na kasa da kasa" kuma ya ce Burtaniya za ta kasance a "bayan layi" a duk wata yarjejeniyar kasuwanci da Amurka idan ta bar Tarayyar Turai, kuma ya zargi Firayim Ministan Burtaniya David Cameron da "rashin damuwa da wasu abubuwa" yayin da ake shiga tsakani a Libya a shekarar 2011
Ka yi haƙuri. A lokacin rikicin Suez na shekarar 1956, Shugaban Amurka Dwight Eisenhower ya yi barazanar soke bashin IMF saboda mamayewar Burtaniya na Masar don dawo da Canal Suez. A cikin shekarun 1960, Firayim Ministan Burtaniya Harold Wilson ya yi watsi da bukatar Shugaban Amurka Lyndon Johnson na amfani da sojojin Burtaniya a yakin Vietnam. Firayim Ministan Burtaniya Margaret Thatcher ita ma a asirce ta yi adawa da mamayewar Amurka a Grenada a shekarar 1983, kuma Shugaban Amurka Reagan bai yi nasara ba a yakin Falklands na 1982.