Keir Starmer’s Trump act is politically damaging but necessary

Good morning The biggest and most important task of the car star is to visit Donald Trump’s second term. But this includes bothering many British voters. Some ideas on it below.

Originally everything is fine

The star does Really Believe it, Trump will not have to choose between the United States and the European Union – who has repeatedly claimed this time, this time in an interview to the New York Times? The answer is “apparently not”. One of its symbols, such as Henry Foy and Ben Hall, has revealed, is one of the many European powers that is one of the most important partners in the United States without an important role in planning the future of NATO and Europe.

But the fact is that when the star talks about the importance of “US Backstop” to help defend the Ukraine, he does not make fun. Even when France and Britain have worked without the United States in recent years, such as Libya’s intervention, they used US airports. Likewise, they will need to rely on US airports for any immediate “assurance force” to protect the ceasefire.

There are large areas of modern military information for which the UK and other European powers have outsourced their knowledge and capabilities to the United States, either by not spending money or buying Americans. It cannot be decided overnight.

Repeatedly to raise the question of readers: No, it is not true that the UK cannot use its nuclear barrier without US approval. But it is true that the current nuclear prevention of the UK is a “use or lost”, which is either fired once, or turned to a scrap. It is not suitable for defending its allies without US involvement or preventing the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia. Fixing this is a soluble problem, but it requires money and time.

That is why the star’s “everything is fine, actually” are normal matters. That is why efforts are made to avoid being directly caught in the government’s trade war. Because in different ways they buy time and money for transfer to a world in which Britain and Europe can defend themselves. It has to create more and more confusion about what will happen if another European nation was attacked after a ceasefire.

The political issue is, in fact, British voters Hate is These Trump is really unpopular in the UK. Ukraine is incredibly popular. Canada is very famous. And the British ministers a “actually, okay! Who are you talking about?” The routine is damaging the government’s position. It all increases a feeling – one that regularly comes into focus groups – that the world is in a state of constant chaos and the UK cannot protect itself or prevent it. ۔

At present, the ranking of the star and the government is taking advantage of it. But there is a danger that the ministers are ineligible and a little fraud. Because the necessary process of trying to keep confusion about Trump and NATO comes from the voice as is under the control of people who do not see too much news.

Almost Everyone in the government knows that this is a threat, and almost everybody in the opposition gives it a chance. Robert Jennric and James cleverly see that as long as Conservatives can return to power in 2029, Trump’s management will not be his problem. This means that they can criticize Trump in a simple language than wages. The Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Dave also knows him and makes him the subject of his speech at his party’s Spring Conference.

Labor’s great relief, for the moment, is that the conservatives are led by a politician who has not seen this opportunity and keeps saying crazy things about foreign policy, such as the “ideal” should not be an army in Ukraine in the UK. (You know that Ukraine, Kimi? In Russia, who should not be “ideally”.)

But sooner or later – my condition is summer 2026 – conservatives have a leader who recognizes the golden opportunity to target the government where it hurts, which will deepen the political cost of the laborer’s point of view.

Now, finally, in the second Trump era and in a new world to take Britain safely where it can defend itself, and its European interests are the most important tasks that it will rule. This – and rightly – should be ready for the domestic unpopular court at home. But Labor has promised a unnecessary challenge created for himself. They both limit how quickly it may move to adjust the new fact And When the star claims that he “likes and respects Trump”, more disturbing voters.

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