April 6, 2025

30 thoughts on “What Does Trump Mean For the UK?

  1. I think labour's big issue is that Trump is not going to care about them at all, hes going to group them with the rest of Europe. Atleast with the conservatives, trump saw them as an allie that he can use against europe.

  2. The elephant in the room is the UK's absolute dependance on the US for its nuclear deterance.
    The Royal Navy, for some bizarre reason, uses the US Trident II missles.

    This gives trump (or any US president) massive leverage over the UK.
    They can halt the supply/maintanence of the missles and probably just disable the existing stock.
    Especially suspicious considering two consequative Royal Navy Trident II tests failed.

  3. You're sanewashing Trump. You have to remember that fundamentally, he is mad and incapable of seeing further than the end of his mushroom dong. There's no point in trying to ascribe a rational ideology to him beyond dictatorial ambitions.

  4. Europe, including the UK, should maintain a massive fleet of ships, planes, and gorund forces – 12 enornous battle groups and name each group after one of the 12 Battlestars from Battlestar Galactica.

  5. Nuclear. Also you don't talk about how Biden sees himself as Irish, despite having majority British ancestors, minoritarian, identifying what makes you different etc. Also Biden visited Ireland before the UK if i remember correctly. Nice to see nuanced take however, pointing at the American industries/politics as a whole instead of just red vs blue.

  6. Strategic autonomy for Europe is the only way Europe retains any relevancy internationally. We in the UK must get behind it and need to get over this non-existent fantasy of being closer to America than the EU.

  7. Starmer has been focused on relations with the EU from the months prior to the election. It's pretty clear that closer alignment with the EU is not only the right thing to do as we find ourselves less able to rely on the USA as the years go by, but it's also what the UK government seems intent on doing.

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