🚨🚨 This is great work by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social on the need for Britain to disentangle itself of the legacy of the old transatlantic partnership and invest "too much diplomatic capital ..with a regime that hates democracy and thinks reciprocity is for penguins". https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/britain-america-ministers-donald-trump
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He's got that vulnerable level of vanity, but without the intelligence or self-awareness.
There it is again. Again.
Taking the UK with him.
It's because, as bad as things are now, if we told Trump to get
('Everyone in Europe hates me, so I'm going to let my friend Putin sort them out' ...etc)
So I assume that Starmer and
As America has done to us, we cr*pped on our EU allies from a great height and they will not readily trust us again.
That’s just victim blaming.
Brexit was done ‘to’ us, not ‘by’ us, just like Trump is being done ‘to’ the American people (and the rest of the World !) on a far larger scale.
No-one voted to have their own Social Security payments cancelled by DOGE, they were just stupid
We need to disengage ASAP, but we need to prepare the ground
Trump is easily provoked into childish hissy fits, regardless of the consequences. Attack him in public, and we could be left at real risk.
We have no choice but to be patient. We need time for the unwind. The last thing we can afford to do is to make a big song & dance about it and attract the moron’s attention.
While at least France is militarily independent, this is not the case for the UK.
As Behr points out, the UK is deeply dependent on the US militarily, not least in terms of its nuclear deterrent.
Make a public attack on Trump, and he may lash-out by cutting-off all intelligence and military co-operation with the UK, out of spite.