Thursday, March 05, 2026
Trump misreading history again
That comment demonstrates that once again Trump has shown that he does not understand history nor the nature of the special relationship between the UK and the USA.
The President has spent the last twelve months trashing his country's allies, abusing them for their over-reliance on the United States, imposing tariffs and trying to bully them into giving him what he wants.
In the last few months Trump has:
🔴 Threatened to seize Greenland — Danish sovereign territory
🔴 Threatened Canada with annexation
🔴 Undermined NATO's Article 5 mutual defence commitment
🔴 Backed Israel through ICC arrest warrants and genocide investigations
🔴 Bombed Iran without international mandate
🔴 Now following Spain's refusal to allow him to use their bases. he threatened to fly military aircraft into their territory, a NATO ally, without permission
Why should he be surprised then, when those same allies are reluctant to fall into line behind a campaign of agression against a country that offers no direct threat to them or the USA, has no clear objectives or end game and appears to be largely motivated by a desire to distract attention from the Epstein files?
And as for his view on Winston Churchill, Trump has got that wrong as well. Churchill pursued the 'special relationship' because it was in the UK's best interests to do so. He always put the UK's interests first, and whether you agree with him or not, that is what Starmer is doing as well.
Starmer is quite right to avoid dragging the UK into this conflict and he should continue to hold that position. After all there is a good chance that Churchill would have done the same.
