All pretences dropped now. The US government has shifted its allegiances to Russia, and the entire basis of our security, tied as it was to an illusory special relationship, has just gone overboard. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... - ThreadSky

georgemonbiot.bsky.social • 19 hours ago

All pretences dropped now. The US government has shifted its allegiances to Russia, and the entire basis of our security, tied as it was to an illusory special relationship, has just gone overboard.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/24/united-nations-ukraine-russia-trump

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jimkennymdant.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I've said it before, all the people and countries that have tried and failed to bring down the USA through nefarious means must be laughing, the USA is doing a good job on their own

caseyjoyjoy.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Or perhaps we are being taken down from within. Narcissistic people always tell on themselves through projection. “Drain the swamp”, “enemy from within”… ITS THIS ADMINISTRATION leading the takeover of the USA. 👀

ferrickbrick.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Now the EU must stand united and strong. The UK must stand with them and align for protection.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The UK is America’s bitch.

lesserspottedh.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Sometimes I still hope we are all in a bad dream and will wake up from it any time now. My consciousness still can’t cope with this onslaught of degradation.

amari.bsky.social•18 hours ago

An alt title could be, “Betraying all western allies—and his own nation’s founding principles of democracy, civil rights, & the rule of law—Donald Trump clarifies his intention to make the US into the twin pole of Russia in a new axis of evil.”

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Both mafia states.

Donald Trump: il capo dei capi dei fasci americani di combattimento

gemandmoll.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It's a shock to US allies and, I suspect, to many Americans.

tritim.bsky.social•18 hours ago

We have a new Axis of Evil. 😱

janbellina.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I hope the army is recruiting.

bombswarmearth.bsky.social•18 hours ago

America invades far more nations

Why shouldn't war monger states
Who drill baby drill oil
As earth burns
be allies?

Burn oil for Trump
to turn earth into hell

otiscampbell.bsky.social•18 hours ago

So we have spent a quadrillion million dollars to maintain a military 20X bigger than anybody needs, ever since WWII, only to have the President capitulate to a weak, poor foreign power and our guys never even left the barracks.

bbolger.bsky.social•17 hours ago

That’s what I find so bizarre.

USA is going to spend $800b this year on defence anyway but are having fainting spells about $35b per annum of old equipment going to an actual war…

I get Trump is seemingly compromised, but what was Biden’s excuse?

otiscampbell.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I've got this one! Biden was a milquetoast, equivocating mediocrity. That's the excuse.

raysmith.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Especially as no Americans are being killed, only Russians, Ukrainians and North Koreans. It’s disappointing Trump won’t keep this going, at the very least until Ukraine runs out of fighting age men.

rb-citizen.bsky.social•13 hours ago

What do you mean, "only Russians ... and North Koreans" ? 😡

Don't you know those are OUR ALLIES!

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Krasnov is not your asset.

jarda.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Comrafe Krasnov doesn't waste time. Putler really needs this.

sylvanheathcote.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Why the democrats didn’t hammer the point in the election that, if trump won, America would switch sides in a war, is beyond me. Guess the focus group didn’t tell them to.

troybairn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The Democrats are hopeless.

elainett.bsky.social•17 hours ago

His desperate thirst for worship and praise will never be quenched by this mentorship. He’s just Putin’s whore - cheap & disposable once the chastity belt of ethical diplomacy, economic & military impediments have all been removed.

dj-buzby.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Make America Great Again (MAGA) should now be Make America Despised (MAD)

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

In fairness, that wasn’t a big step.

Many Americans abroad were horrified to discover that everyone around them was supporting Iran when they met the USA in the soccer World Cup. (A Democrat was in the WH.) Even in supposedly allied countries. Dislike of the USA has often been very thinly veiled.

everyonesmum.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The uk needs to file for divorce

davidherdson.bsky.social•17 hours ago

For more than six decades, the US security guarantee to Europe and UK-US special relationship were very much not illusory. But to anyone still believing in it, it is now.

haidarthespider.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The special relationship seems to have been the US telling the UK to jump and the UK asking how high.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Starmer is still asking how high.

davidherdson.bsky.social•5 hours ago

That article is ten years old and inaccurate (Britain has always produced its own warheads, for example).

But. UK dependence on American technology and data needs to end asap. It's too big a vulnerability. Even so, it's not prevented the UK doing its own thing in the past and shouldn't now.

davidherdson.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Likewise, the assertion that the Vanguard class is just a copy of the Ohio class is so obviously wrong. See the numbers below. If it can't get basic information like that right, what hope is there about anything else in it?

https://armedforces.eu/compare/submarines_Vanguard-class_vs_Ohio-class

blueeyedan725.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Make America shamed again ,in one month we went from leading the fight for freedom and democracy ,to looking like ass kissers and losers.

simonfrosty.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Cheeto-eating surrender monkeys.

teerup.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The Russicans are holding a good hand for now but some on the inside will revolt.

troybairn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Hard to see this being resolved without civil war. What do patriotic Americans do when Trump begins cancelling elections?

Accept dictatorship or take to arms?

teerup.bsky.social•1 hour ago

We need to join forces before elections to ensure our message is heard well before civil war is necessary. Our friends who have been mislead cannot be mislead forever by a group of charlatans and carnival barkers. They are demonstrating they cannot run government, that is the first step. It’s on us

ch405ity.bsky.social•10 hours ago

The US is in reality now the 47th oblast.

bobbafett.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I don’t know why but I’m still stunned, how that goon Farage still holds on so tightly to the soles of Trumps hooves as he nails his bloodstained authoritarian flag to the Whitehouse and his contempt for former US allies is laid bare for the world to see. How fucking embarrassing it must be.

troybairn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Next prime minister after Keir Starmer?

Nigel Farage (Ref) 3/1
Kemi Badenoch (Con) 8/1
Wes Streeting (Lab) 10/1
Boris Johnson (Con) 14/1
Yvette Cooper (Lab) 15/1
Angela Rayner (Lab) 16/1

20/1 bar

frankieboy1964.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Angela Rayner 16/1, looks the Best bet.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Lay, lay, lay.

(In the betting sense, obviously.)

This type of market is always atrocious value. Never back the favourites.

frankieboy1964.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Star Man stands down, she'll be next.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Obviously, there are scenarios where Rayner is in a good position, but those scenarios are unlikely.

brunopara.bsky.social•19 hours ago

just appalling

caseyjoyjoy.bsky.social•19 hours ago

We’re all F’d.

rooflight1.bsky.social•18 hours ago

You’re not.
Don’t be so defeatist.

It’s exactly the attitude the dictators love.

You need to be clever and think what will hurt them the most….

caseyjoyjoy.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I know. I’m sure you know it gets increasingly difficult daily. I’ve canceled the things and boycotted the stores- to name very few. I appreciate your nudge to stay positive though. Trying to spread kindness where ever I go. This kinda news is yet another gut punch. They just keep coming.

rooflight1.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It alright to be fearful, you’re not alone.
But as the old phrase goes ‘don’t let the bastards grind you down’
Keep the strength to carry on, they hate that and you are already winning over them…

caseyjoyjoy.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Thank you for this :)

rooflight1.bsky.social•16 hours ago

jacgriffith.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Trump's definitely a cvnt, but ending the Ukrainian meat grinder has to be a good thing for ordinary Ukrainians. Unless you're happy to get in the trenches or send your children, stop the warmongering.

lxpeanut.bsky.social•15 hours ago

The meat grinder would continue though. The USA selling Ukraine to Russia is not going to stop Ukrainians fighting.

drewe.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Because appeasement has a long history of success doesn't it?

jacgriffith.bsky.social•15 hours ago

https://ildu.com.ua/

rb-citizen.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Letting Russia unopposed expand the meat grinder to all of Ukraine seems a worse option.

oldtrot.bsky.social•48 minutes ago

This isn’t an act of allegiance. It’s a carve-up.

scarfsourblue.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Molotov and Ribbentrop ring a bell?

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Spot on.

hoodyindy.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The Axis of Absurdity.

ianafraser.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The UK and Canada should seek EU membership.

rb-citizen.bsky.social•13 hours ago

And Australia!

skippyoz.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Liar in Chief & a lot of suckhole cabal have always had allegiance to Russia.

Fraudster criminal trump has peen one of Putin's laundromats for a long time.

pastapete.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Facists are aligned with Putin and against Ukraine

laurajerramp.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The fact that we have tooled up US military bases all over the UK is now even more unsettling. How do we safely escape from this very ‘special’ relationship?

https://cnduk.org/resources/military-bases-us-bases-in-the-uk-and-uk-bases-overseas-what-they-are-and-what-they-do/

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

You’ve got the teeth of a hydra upon you.

laurajerramp.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Oo I had to look that up!
Yep - So if we are Hercules who or what is our Iolaus at this point please?

troybairn.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Jings! Now I’ll have to start looking things up! 😄

That ”teeth of a hydra” is a line from what used to be a very famous song, and one which still makes me swing my hips and pretend I’m young:

’Get It On’, by T. Rex, 1971

ashman06.bsky.social•16 hours ago

#RussianAgent
#ManchurianCandidate
#Trump
#GOP

Told you..

simonbm.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I have full confidence in the ability of the British establishment to maintain belief in an illusory anything regardless of reality.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It’s their USP.

richmond6.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Jesus wept!

borisnorris.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I’m struggling to identify what benefit this is to either Trump or the USA. The only beneficiary is Putin. Which seems to confirm what many thought, but which seemed a conspiracy too far.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Looks like Agent Krasnov was the finest secret service recruitment in history.

A Putin foreign policy victory which easily surpasses Brexit.

frankieboy1964.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Special Relationships eh? Corrupt Tax Dodging Bastards Stick Together.

martinpb66.bsky.social•16 hours ago

With a US under Trump the UK nuclear deterrent is not viable, as Trump cannot be trusted allow the missiles to be serviced correctly, and any intelligence sharing means Trump will pass it on to Putin, or just leak it to whoever he wants.
Cyber security is also a major concern.

eldiablojuancarlos.bsky.social•13 hours ago

French system independent?

npkirwan.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Yes it is

writeon1.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Trump & Musk are screwing so many of us that he's becoming a threat to the reelection chances of Republican officeholders in special elections and 2026. Their loyalty to Trump is transactional. Politics here are in a state of flux.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

My big worry is what does Trump do when it becomes apparent he’s going to lose the mid-terms. Does he start cancelling elections?

lindav138.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Shifted them genocidal Israel, to the extent of full complicity in a genocide. Not much of a shift then.

flatsix723.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Might this tip the scales slightly, in favour of the UK realigning itself with Europe? No harm in hoping!

troybairn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

No. Look up the Trident contract. Trump owns Starmer.

frankieboy1964.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Scots have Indy, UK Contract is NULL & VOID.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This is why their goon Sarwar has been sent out to tell us we cannot leave. Soon they will threaten us with military force. It is the pattern of decolonisation.

frankieboy1964.bsky.social•11 hours ago

War is inevitable.

retiredab.bsky.social•11 hours ago

but wait, there's more. The US and Russia have also agreed that the US will obtain rare earth minerals and aluminum from Russia. The US is dependent on Russia and won't be able to remove itself from their claws. The US is no more. It is now a territory of Russia.

oldladyhembrew.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I remember my dear friend Helen John when she was Vice Chair of CND predicting one day we'd wake up to find we had enemy bases in the UK. We were camped at Menwith Hill at the time and had just been visited by a group of fully armed military men. At 2am. For 9 women & I was the only 1 under 65.

danmacphail.bsky.social•5 hours ago

USAF F15s & F35s fly over the UK every day. B52 bombers and U2 spy planes frequent Fairford, whilst the US spy agencies in N Yorks and Northamptonshire apply Trump's radical "Executive Orders". Are we even on the same side any more?

rhkwaschik.bsky.social•5 hours ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

lzvolk.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Just went through all my expletives, most not public all appropriate. But would not refrain from telling the Orange orangutan to his dace.

shades75.bsky.social•19 hours ago

There’s 350 million people in the USA and 1 man has turned the country upside down to suit himself. There is only the illusion of democracy in a country where that can happen. It’s now no different to the regimes in Russia, China and North Korea. It’s over.

bicerin.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Where’s the fabled “good man with a gun” when you really do need him?

eldiablojuancarlos.bsky.social•13 hours ago

To be fair, if the general population decide they are not in favour of this, that's a lot of people with guns and I'm not sure most of the military would really fire on them 'in the name of the orange one'. Might genuinely end up turning into a civil war if things keep going this way

gloshbeach.bsky.social•16 hours ago

As of 6.30pm GMT the President of the United States of America is speaking on behalf of Russian despot Putin,saying Putin 'would allow' that's ALLOW European peacekeepers. What is going on here.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Agent Krasnov has been activated.

aiteall.bsky.social•18 hours ago

WHY does it matter if the "special relationship" was a delusion and was just a cover for following US policy?

davyvanham.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Always good to see the whole list of who voted against: includes also the EU Trojan horse Hungary, Israel, ...

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160456

nebredral.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Perfectly valid reason to kick all the US forces out of the UK now then.

troybairn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

States with United States military bases:

manchegoblue.bsky.social•18 hours ago

“LOL we owned the Libs”

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Christo-fascists are gonna just love Armageddon. Shame the fuckers are spending perpetuity in the care of Auld Nick.

eparapo.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Krasnov has been the KGB’s greatest project. Jeffrey Epstein in exchange for American surrender? 🤔

justjudehere.bsky.social•18 hours ago

christy21.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Are the people of the once great USA happy to be surrender monkeys?

eldiablojuancarlos.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Careful what you wish for; would not want to be in Canada's shoes right now (but hope we Europeans would stand with them)

ryfford.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Now let's see Frottage squirm out the excuses for his obsessive support for Putin's Trump.

The UK's future lies with Europe!

troybairn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The UK’s future looks far right:

Next prime minister after Keir Starmer?

Nigel Farage (Ref) 3/1
Kemi Badenoch (Con) 8/1
Wes Streeting (Lab) 10/1
Boris Johnson (Con) 14/1
Yvette Cooper (Lab) 15/1
Angela Rayner (Lab) 16/1

20/1 bar

ryfford.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Well if that's what the polls say 4 years before the next election I'll give up now then.

newblue25.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Read Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europeans-win-un-clash-with-us-over-rival-ukraine-resolutions-2025-02-24/

federicom.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Coming up: the EU is the new “Axis of Evil”. Not sure where that will leave all those military bases dotted around Europe…

lewan.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Precisely. The Fascist Internationale has been formally inaugurated.

troybairn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Donald Trump: il capo dei capi dei fasci americani di combattimento

hammythefox.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Joe McCarthy would have had a field day with this lot.

stevebasnett.bsky.social•10 hours ago

There was me thinking that Trump was so clearly unstable and hapless that Putin would never consider any kind of alliance. The probabilities of backstabbing and escalating repercussions on both sides were just too great. But I guess global scale corruption coagulates with global scale corruption?

jaz73.bsky.social•17 hours ago

We all knew that. Only the politicians refused to accept it

sabine34.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The United States failed to get the UN General Assembly to approve its resolution to end the war in Ukraine, without mentioning Ukraine’s territorial integrity or the Russian invasion. So, the move marks a setback for the Trump administration within the 193-nation world body.

lucyksy.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Once you realize that the "goals" of the Trump admin and the christo-fascists is to destroy the government and crash the economy, it becomes a lot clearer.

troybairn.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Maybe all American babies will be born in stables in the not too distant future?

However, they won’t be receiving gifts of gold, frankincense or myrrh.

dakindon.bsky.social•14 hours ago

100 years effort cancelled out in one single month

robin.bobin.uk•4 hours ago

That's not what the special relationship was. The security relationship was between the US and Europe generally, with NATO and with "Five Eyes" and not dependent on any special UK-US relationship.

w2jmf.bsky.social•18 hours ago

We need the US intelligence agencies out if the UK

tritim.bsky.social•18 hours ago

And removed from the 5 Eyes

rickgaehl.bsky.social•38 minutes ago

The 'special relationship' was always a figment of the imagination of the British establishment anyway. Maybe this will help push us into further and closer ties with the EU?

heptaglemious.bsky.social•19 hours ago

A bit of a theme with the current US government, giving the wrong answer to really easy questions.

vambomarbleeye.bsky.social•19 hours ago

America enters “the axis of evil”

patrickcanning.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Yes, this is it. And the sooner the world sees it clearly the better.

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