They aren't "allies" anymore.
UK of any country should understand that considering how EU has handled the UK in last few decades.
1945 was a long time ago. Hell, even 1989 was a long time ago.
And in that third of a century, all western Europe did was disarm.
That isn't on Trump. It is on the, yes, "spineless" EU technocracy that pretends to be some kind of special moral authority while buttering its bread at the expense of others. Now that Trump has called the technocracy on their 35+ years of pretense, he is somehow uniquely "evil".
And a big part of that spinelessness turns on the technocracy's fear of what their recent arrivals might get up to if those arrivals become unhappy with EU policy or EU-nation policies.
Trump may be brash and rude. But he didn't set the change in relationship we now see in motion. All he did was point it out repeatedly, something that was apparently unforgivable for the hapless "elites" running the EU (who the UK's PM foolishly emulates).
If the EU wants to go their own way without significant American input into NATO, including more reliable basing support for US operations ... the European peoples will soon find out that means a hegemony under a Germany that will be only too willing to sell them out for lucrative deals with Putin's Russia. That, by the way, won't be a development to the UK's advantage.
This bit with Iran isn't some optional exercise in "hurray patriotism". It is the last chance to pull the nuclear teeth of a fanatical religious regime with a 7th century mentality and a record of ruthlessly slaughtering their own people. Don't think for a minute they won't slaughter Westerners if they get the chance to do so while wielding a nuclear shield.
UK of any country should understand that considering how EU has handled the UK in last few decades.
1945 was a long time ago. Hell, even 1989 was a long time ago.
And in that third of a century, all western Europe did was disarm.
That isn't on Trump. It is on the, yes, "spineless" EU technocracy that pretends to be some kind of special moral authority while buttering its bread at the expense of others. Now that Trump has called the technocracy on their 35+ years of pretense, he is somehow uniquely "evil".
And a big part of that spinelessness turns on the technocracy's fear of what their recent arrivals might get up to if those arrivals become unhappy with EU policy or EU-nation policies.
Trump may be brash and rude. But he didn't set the change in relationship we now see in motion. All he did was point it out repeatedly, something that was apparently unforgivable for the hapless "elites" running the EU (who the UK's PM foolishly emulates).
If the EU wants to go their own way without significant American input into NATO, including more reliable basing support for US operations ... the European peoples will soon find out that means a hegemony under a Germany that will be only too willing to sell them out for lucrative deals with Putin's Russia. That, by the way, won't be a development to the UK's advantage.
This bit with Iran isn't some optional exercise in "hurray patriotism". It is the last chance to pull the nuclear teeth of a fanatical religious regime with a 7th century mentality and a record of ruthlessly slaughtering their own people. Don't think for a minute they won't slaughter Westerners if they get the chance to do so while wielding a nuclear shield.
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