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Originally Posted by jfman
There’s no way that coalition of the willing doesn’t flounder as far right governments replace incumbents intent on decimating their own economies for unknown ends in far flung lands. If they last longer than Trump that’ll just be the favourability of the electoral calendar.
I’d not rule out Starmer, who has proven time and again he doesn’t even stand for the principles upon which he stood for leadership of the Labour Party, never mind the manifesto upon which he was elected, being the lap dog to Trump once his posturing is confirmed as an electoral liability.
He’s perhaps the one person Ukraine might be able to rely upon less than the Americans in the long run.
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Well, I’m no fan of Starmer but even on an uncharitable reading of him it is hard to see how he can drop the ball on this one. An epoch is shifting and the European governments Starmer instinctively wants to align with - and which his party prefers to align with - are pulling in a very different direction than the USA. We have a circle that can’t be squared, and I agree with you that sooner or later he is going to have to make a choice, because the ambition to be a bridge between Europe and the US might have been plausible 2 months ago but it really isn’t now. If it’s a question of who he weakly follows, I can’t see him going with Trump over Macron and Merz, especially not after Trump has been so usefully odious as to make distancing from him a simple matter of politeness.