The government believe that it's 'Weekend at Bernie's' routine on the US-UK relationship will buy it time (and by avoiding tariffs, money) to build a Nato without the US. But it comes at the risk of just making ministers look as if they live on another planet:
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Making us look stupid to Europe AND the UK.
They end up coming across to insiders and outsiders that they live in another reality.
... So they get another pay rise for doing nothing but look stupid to everyone.
Great!!!
Good luck moving him around when he's dead - you'd need the cranes you use to move dead whales
Which it needs to do anyway.
2-5 years is commonly quoted.
But UK has hundreds of MBTs, IFVs and fast jets. Problem is, at any one time most aren't functional.
(I'm not convinced any Warriors function: otherwise they'd be in Ukraine).
https://bsky.app/profile/samfr.bsky.social/post/3llvdsnlh2c2i
He would almost certainly lash-out at the UK if it openly criticized him right now. Winning a fight would be all that mattered to him, not the geopolitical consequences of his actions to do so.