US and UK are not in the EU's new military initiative, but Canada is. Canada also just negotiated with Australia to help build a new long range Arctic military radar system and are considering scrapping most of an order for 88 US F35 fighter jets and buying elsewhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/world/canada/canada-eu-military-industry-trump.html
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The US part was to provide Virginia class as a stop gap.
Guess which part’s under threat🙄😞
USA has not funded extra SSNs in 3 years. There will be no US SSNs spare in 2032. They just want a sub base.
Unlike USA, UK is keen to supply RAN, but does not have the capability. SSN AUKUS build will not start till 2035. Too late.
It's a ground based over the horizon radar system.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/canada-snuck-past-trump-buy-jorn-defence-radar/105069292
That'll make em sit up and pay attention.
A lot more complex economically, not to give anyone false hopes.
But, militarily - we all know where UK stands.
UK stepped up Ukraine aid before all.
UK are leading talks today
The UK and France lead the New Alliance.
UK has its own rearmament programme which compliments that of the EU.
There is then a separate arrangement involving Ukraine, Canada and Japan.
Australia and New Zealand are yet to commit.
Try to keep up.
Yes! Please help us!
Time to BreEnter
You can't just ignore voters ...or worse try and disenfranchise them altogether
Have you EU fanboys no bottoming out of how low you will go?
Embarrassing 😳
So must suck to be French or German then in your eyes?
Brexit should never have happened which such a close vote.
The vote to leave was overwhelming in the 2019 GE
"Just three in ten Britons (30%) now say that it was right for the UK to vote to leave the EU, compared to 55% who say it was wrong for the country to vote for Brexit in 2016."
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51484-how-do-britons-feel-about-brexit-five-years-on
This is what matters
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/results
73% of us just voted not to rejoin
The EU sees that and understands its over
You need to grasp the obvious like they have
The talk now is about how a majority, larger than the 51% that voted for Brexit, want another vote on rejoining the EU.
https://natcen.ac.uk/public-attitudes-new-eu-referendum
The 3 biggest parties by voters share are all non rejoin parties
I'm sure those parties stand for other issues as well? So who is to say that people gave them their votes solely on not reversing brexit.
I'm not British, so this is just an outside perspective or question.
But have it your way. If you think the UK doesn't want to rejoin the EU, then you can't be worried by another referendum, right?
You're just angry because I understand politics in both the UK and EU better than you
It's why you play that card so desperately
Dreary mate
Their manifesto tells you all you need to know
And I quote ...
"There will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement"
The next election at the latest would be in August 2029.
Then we Join the EU as a Full member.
Long way for me to say we shouldn't need the UK for us to join.
Canada's Stability is well documented.
1.5 cm a year
How far are we from Calais?
Not far enough to stop the boats haha 😆
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-eu-to-ramp-up-pressure-on-russia-and-boost-defence-initiatives
Our idiot former PM stabbed Macron in the back with that sideways deal.
Cousins all the way. 😎
Oh well, I guess they'll have to just get rich from some more defense contracts that will never pass an audit.
Stupid bastards scrapped the A-10 instead of upgrading...
Whatever. We're too stupid to buy from.
that Ask for Launch Codes Huge Error Using Weapons with These Impediments
BBC News - UK to host new Ukraine peacekeeping talks
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z1w1y2neo
UK are hosting the talks today.
BBC News - UK to host new Ukraine peacekeeping talks
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z1w1y2neo
https://www.ft.com/content/eb9e0ddc-8606-46f5-8758-a1b8beae14f1
They are actually leading on it with France. It's called the "Coalition of the willing".
https://archive.ph/nD6fc
We can no longer be trusted. Period.
We're living through this nightmare, like a sinking vehicle over the bridge. 😫
IT SHOULD STILL BE CALLED THE HAT OF AMERICA, NOT CANADIA.
SAD.
Americans are afraid to say what Dictator Trump has already said. ‘I’ll be dictator day one” “you won’t have to vote anymore”
We live in a dictatorship don’t live in denial it’s not safe anywhere here
Isn’t that because it’s ‘Great’ Britain
Doesn’t need anyone else, hence Brexit.
😏
Brexit was voted on by racist old white people because they don't want immigrants in their country. It was also a referendum and not a legally binding vote.
That has now cost us 32 billion £ a year to the economy.
Sarcasm. Isn’t that a British quality 😊