As so often in the past, the UK has been serving as the US's "unsinkable aircraft carrier". If that's not "helping", I don't know what is.
That has not gone down well with most of the UK public, not least because it risks embroiling us in war crimes.
If Trump wants to do away with that basing arrangement, I don't think anyone in the UK will stand in his way.
Ostensibly, the support is supposed to be for "defensive strikes", but once the planes take off, the UK has no control over their mission, nor any reprisals that may follow in coming years. Starmer is toeing a fine line between what is offensive and what is defensive as things stand.
If Trump imagines this is some betrayal of NATO solidarity, he's forgetting that NATO is a defence pact, not a private army to boost him in whatever crazy schemes he may have.
If he wants allies, he's going to have to court them. Or invade them, I guess.
Meanwhile, European countries have been having to shoulder the bulk of the burden of supporting Ukraine through a war on their doorsteps, with Trump constantly meddling counterproductively and banging on about Ukraine having to cede territory, which nobody else on the allied side is envisioning nor thinks is a good idea, and making big bucks out of flogging a trickle of arms to the European partners to supply to Ukraine.
Thanks a bunch for nothing.
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