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Can the UK really still be described as the US's closest ally? Feels a lot more like we're America's gimp these days.
by drcongo 9mo ago
Can the UK really still be described as the US's closest ally? Feels a lot more like we're America's gimp these days.
- polotics 9mo agoOrwell's "Airstrip One" moniker from 1984 comes to mind. Most apt in the context of the recent north-Atlantic tanker interdiction exercise. Them NATO bases are quite useful!
- ben_w 9mo agoClosest, but not close. UK's "independent" nuclear deterrant is British made warheads in British made submarines, but the missiles fired from those subs and to which those warheads are attached, are American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile) Still, plenty of times the UK has gone to bite, only to metaphorically boinked on the nose by a rolled up newspaper. Notably the Suez crisis.