>>25642235
>the US took the British Empire's overseas territories during the war in exchange for destroyers
Bases, you word it as if we took everything they possessed outside Great Britain
> And because of the Lend Lease debts, Britain had a food rationing system for a long time after the war.
Why would foreign debt cause food rationing? It was because food production was low in Britain due to the war footing and even lower in mainland Europe for the same reason as well as devastation from the two empires that just razed the continent (US and USSR) which Britain was sending food to.