"Did the UK really want to be part of a war that was illegal in most versions of international law and for which the Americans had no clear vision of how it might end? Other than Donald Trump gets bored and lets everyone else clear up his mess. Like a baby. Nor was the UK's track record of wars in the 21st century any source of pride. Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya had all been in chaos."
"Weirdly, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage saw just the same evidence and came to the opposite conclusion. Without hesitation they promised their undying support for the orange man child, who is one half extreme emotional damage and the other half rambling idiot with no idea of what he is saying from one sentence to the next."
"Then there was the moment when Donald Trump posted on social media that the special relationship was dead, that he didn't need our support for a war he had already won no one appears to have told the combatants and that Keir Starmer was a loser."
The UK faced multiple decision points regarding involvement in America's conflict with Iran. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and most of the UK determined that involvement should be limited to defensive strikes only, citing concerns about the war's legality under international law, America's unclear objectives, and the UK's troubled history with 21st-century military interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. However, opposition figures Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage supported Trump's military actions unconditionally despite Trump's lack of coherent war objectives and inability to articulate clear goals. The situation became absurd when Trump subsequently declared the special relationship dead, claimed he had already won the war, and insulted Starmer on social media, leaving his British supporters in an awkward position.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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