The UK could make virtue of necessity. Cancel Trident and redirect the £3bn p.a. it costs to conventional defence spending. It would leave the UK dependent on France for nuclear deterrence, (assuming we think that is required). But is that any less reliable than depending on Trump’s US?
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Especially not when Russia is able to dismember Ukraine precisely because it gave up nukes in return for territorial guarantees from the UK, US, and Russia.
But there has never been any basis to say trident is operationally dependent on the US.