If I switched on the news tomorrow and the headline is “The USA has bombed…”, any country or continent could be at the end of that sentence and my surprise (or lack of) would be the same.
The USA is being run with no guard rails by a deranged dictator, backed up by white supremacists and corporate robber barons. Any country is fair game including NATO members, in response the UK should switch to a war economy.
I was with you right up until the last line. In response the UK should be at the forefront of ostracising America. Publicly declaring that our “special relationship” with our “greatest ally” is dead because they are run by fascist white supremacists.
Instead, we’re actively helping them in their fascist endeavours.
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/01/05/uk-involvement-venezuela/
https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-police-working-with-controversial-tech-giant-palantir-on-real-time-surveillance-network/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/20/uk_palantir_defense_pact/
https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/starlink-set-to-power-rural-nhs-gp-surgeries-in-england/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9jxvx0zjmo
Ugh starmer is such a prick.
I know the conservatives very likely would be doing the exact same thing. I hate them too.
The UK will be the LAST country to break ties with the US because the “special relationship” is just code for Nuclear Dependency.
The UK in early stages of the cold war had a choice; build a joint missile, reactor, and warhead with DeGaul and the French OR buy systems from the US. They chose to go with the US.
The UK supposedly has “Command Independence” over its nuclear weapons, i.e. we can launch without US approval, but the middle technology is US bought as are the warheads and nuclear materials. The only thing we do is build the launch platform (Trident capable Submarines) and install the nuclear materials into the warheads and afix the warheads to the missiles.
I fucking hate it.
I also agree with virtually all this except
Putting ourselves into a war economy by ramping up defense spending, lowering luxury imports, increasing stockpiles of vital materials, and reducing reliance of foreign finished goods will signal that we are prepared for any eventually without having to declare anything.
Moving away from global tech services and developing our own is vital as part of this. Germany are already well ahead of us, and we should follow suit by removing reliance on US social media and technology as quickly as possible.