Britain has been paying a high price for Uncle Sam’s craziness. It’s time to turn to Europe | Simon Tisdall

AMerka is a problem for Britain. This is undoubtedly true in the Trump era – but perhaps it was always so. The unexplained White House of the UK and Europe’s loyal allies requires strong mutual rethinking. How true – and desirable – this partnership? Did you cause more problems than it deserves?

Those, including me, who have taken close -up relationships throughout their career, are dawn, facing some embarrassing questions. Is the “special relationship” of the United States of America embarrassing, and even a strategic responsibility? It is clear that America Not a friend of confidence and not interested. Was that ever?

And I am writing to me the last External affairs suspension to observerI look back for nearly 50 years and wonder, first, in the wrong narration, which is not limited to Donald Trump, that the American altruism is exploited by the “deprived” European NATO allies. What Touch! American forces and missiles are located here primarily to defend the United States. Since 1945, Washington has been considered its first defense line against Russia. Germany was the favorite battlefield in the Cold War in the United States, Britain, its airport. They perish the idea that Americans may already fight their soil (except for each other). American wars are usually waging in distant places. For this reason, the Cuba missile crisis in 1962 came as a shock.

The problem with America started pregnancy. The “War of Independence”, which started a revolution for the middle-class taxpayers, was stabbed in the back for the struggle of Europe against the tyranny of Napoleon-Vladimir Putin in his time. The American resistance of the British efforts to suppress the global slave trade is perpetuated Another evil.

It claims that the United States saved Britain in 1940 exaggerated. Britain saved itself. Franklin Roosevelt went until he was forced to fight by Pearl Harbor and declared Hitler’s war in 1941. After the war, Britain, destroyed and penny, saw that the United States had acquired its global markets and military bases. In 1956, Suez reinforced its fall. It was still War loans paid in 2006. Americans may object to these historical perspectives, but they present the context of today. The nuclear armament race, the numerous coups of the cold war and the wars of the agent in Africa and Latin America, a disaster in Vietnam, the Missleon crisis in the eighties of NATO, and the first Gulf war, were all annoying of American stories that were expected to be supported in the United Kingdom and the UNOB, indeed.

More Uncle Sam was followed in the form of “World War on Terror” after September 11, Guantanamo Gulf, exceptional exposure and retaliatory madness of “King” George (W Bush). NATO support for the invasion of Afghanistan. But then Iraq came, the weapons that are not existing to comprehensive destruction, Abu GharibAnd all the lies that followed that democracy, misery and failure.

From Iraq the Islamic State came. From Afghanistan, 20 years after bloodshed, the Taliban came to the Taliban. Barack Obama abandoned Syria. Now Trump, the monkey of eating surrender in America, The two sides with RussiaThey betray Ukraine and the West. Despite all these disasters made in the United States, the weak Europe shares some blame. But the high price paid by the allies grows and cannot be tolerated.

There is no doubt that the American support for Israel and the mass killing of the Palestinians nourishes anti -Semitism, extremist right -wing nationalism and instability. Trump gathered himPutin’s threat to Poland and the Baltic audience intensify. US foreign aid discounts, reckless climate policies expose millions, and to accelerate migration north of Africa. Trump threatens Iran with a comprehensive war, Pushing.

Are American policy makers incompetent, unlikely or unlucky? It rarely matters as long as Britain and Europe are closed in a toxic relationship, from which there is no escape. Except for Trump and his righteous children, Helpily hostility onlineUnintentionally provides an opportunity to rescue for those bold enough to take it.

American hemon has always raised a stressful greeting. Trump’s tariff reflects the permanent looting and dominance. American pharmaceutical companies, multinational foods and drink F favocable conditions are not organized.

American communication imposes high social and cultural costs, which have been seen in the “American” language and TV programs everywhere and broadcasting services, and pressure on low food and environmental safety standards and online communication. Concepts of common values ​​and comprehensive laws break because Trump targets “wake up” and United Nations grammar book.

Billy-NO-Mates Britain faces a specific problem, after Britain has left the European Union. Its nuclear weapons, armed forces, security services, defense industries, financial markets and export companies are in an incomparable way In Thial to the Emperium United States. The United Kingdom is desperately connected to a sense of “specialization” to maintain self -belief.

However, Steve Whitchov, Trump Ukraine envoy, The Care Starmer plan calls “the situation”. Vice President JD Vance, Greenland’s bold explorerMutating from the United Kingdom as a “random country”. Some of the stranger is called HegSeth that we are “compassionate”. What is the depth of insult, what is the degree of lack of respect, that would convince the Prime Minister in Britain to stop supporting the bridges across the Atlantic?

Such insolence and waiver does not come out of nothingness. We, the British, know. These ugly Americans Learn their imperial arrogance from us. What is new is Trump’s composition and corruption of US constitutional traditions and democracy. Ethical power is lost, and with it the right to leadership.

Huge cramps interspersed with our history: civil war, ban, great depression, McCarthy, Witrgit, 9/11. Trump Maga spasms follow this style. It is also, it will pass. Or will she do that? While the United States prefers the dictators over the Democrats, and punished its friends, lies, fear and conspiracies to theft. Sovereign allies landsThere is no return. Many, maybe most of them Americans deceive this evil behavior – but they fail in an unaccounted manner in stopping it.

Forget what Starmer says. Britain will have to choose. It has been clarified to the United States throughout our lives, and this is where we made us. The gradual strategic association from America, along with renewed integration in the reform of Europe, which has been activated, is the only safe path. Stop feeding the monster. All of us will devour us.