Truth check: warmongering Britain and the U.S. are leading the world to the void.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went to Washington recently cap-in-hand hawking a wicked offer. Post-Brexit Britain is seeking a much-coveted bilateral trade pact with the United States, and to avail of Uncle Sam’s favor the British are using to step up its function as provocateur-in-chief in the proxy war against Russia.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Sunak hailed the normal platitudes about their nations’ “unique relationship” during the British premier’s two-day trip to Washington. Sunak added a new unctuous epithet, describing the U.S. and Britain as the world’s “vital alliance”.
Topping their agenda in the White House summit was the conflict in Ukraine, Russia, China and trade issues.
Biden and Sunak revealed an “Atlantic Statement” promising better cooperation on economics, security, military and artificial intelligence in between the United States and Britain.
However crucially missing from the U.S. side was any concrete dedication to a new bilateral trade offer. When Britain left the European Union in 2020, the historic departure from that trade bloc was calculatedly made with the goal of securing an alternative unique trading plan with the United States.
The Conservative federal government made the securing of a U.S.-UK trade pact a commitment to British voters at the last basic election in 2019. Nearly four years on, however, London is no closer to connecting itself to the American raft after cutting itself loose from the EU. That wandering circumstance has actually triggered unprecedented economic and political turmoil in Britain.
Sunak is the third British prime minister that Biden has actually had negotiations with as president, reflecting the unsteady politics in Britain provoked by its post-Brexit adversities.
Protecting a trade contract with the United States is a priority requirement for London. As Washington under the Biden administration adopts more protectionist financial policies, Britain is eager to obtain concessions for accessing the American economy.
This stuffed juncture is what makes London’s role as Washington’s global henchman more unsafe than usual. In order to win financial favors, Britain is more disposed than ever to escalate U.S. royal hostilities towards Russia and China. Those hostilities are urged by Washington’s own imperial decline as the when presumed “sole superpower” and “global hegemon”.
Throughout his White Home conference, Sunak specifically presented Britain and the United States as the two primary military fans of Ukraine in the war versus Russia. He likewise said that Britain would be taking a lead role in sealing the new military alliance– AUKUS– between Australia, the UK and the U.S. That alliance, which includes supplying nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, is explicitly focused on confronting China in the Asia-Pacific. In an afflicted attempt to sound extensive, Sunak said that security of the Atlantic was “indivisible” from security in Asia-Pacific.
In the Ukraine conflict over the past 16 months, Britain has actually distinguished itself as NATO’s provocateur-in-chief. While in Washington, Sunak boasted about Britain providing battlefield tanks, longer-range missiles and training Ukrainian pilots on the soon-to-be-delivered U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets.
The British PM likewise obsequiously set himself the job of driving other European members of the NATO alliance to increase their military assistance (that is, buying Pentagon’s weapons) for Ukraine. Much to Washington’s pleasure, no doubt.
The war in Ukraine is reaching a more unsafe stage of direct NATO fight with Russia. The “undeclared war” so far is accountable to end up being a full-blown dispute in between nuclear-armed states.
While Sunak went to the White House– it was his fourth conference with Biden in four months– the NATO-backed Kiev program began its long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces. There were reports of NATO-supplied tanks being destroyed in the most recent fighting.
Britain’s just recently provided Storm Shadow cruise rockets– with a variety of 300 km, the longest amongst all NATO missiles provided so far– have actually been targeting Russian area. Some of the British weapons have actually struck civilian centers triggering deaths.
London has actually also supplied diminished uranium weapons shells to the Ukrainian military, which Moscow has intensely condemned as tantamount to “releasing dirty bombs”.
Britain has actually sent out the greatest variety of unique forces out of all the 31 NATO member specifies to assist Ukraine on the ground.
Post-Brexit Britain is in a quandary of its own making. It has actually lost influence in the EU, the world’s largest trading bloc, but London’s pompous imagine “International Britain” have not emerged. Vice versa. Britain’s economy and society are collapsing under its own weight of poverty, inequality and corruption (like Sunak’s multibillionaire wife who does not pay her taxes in Britain.)
The United States, in spite of all the rhetoric about having a “unique relationship”, has actually not tossed Britain a lifeline in the form of a bespoke bilateral trade offer. Cut adrift, London is a dangerous entity (more harmful than usual, that is). Economic duress is liable to make Britain more solicitous of Uncle Sam in supplying its royal enforcer role.
Perfidious Albion has currently contributed in managing numerous justifications to Russia throughout the Ukraine conflict. For warmongers in Washington who wish to press a confrontation with Russia and China, the needy British bulldog remains in a suitably eager condition to serve as a much more vicious guard dog.
Laughably, Biden referred to his meeting with Sunak as comparable to the first encounter between Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the White House to prepare the D-Day intrusion of Europe. The arrogance and delusional distortion of history are impressive.
“And I’m confident the United Kingdom and the United States will continue to lead the world toward higher peace, prosperity, and security for all,” Biden said.
Reality check: warmongering Britain and the U.S. are leading the world to the void.