Trump Says He’ll Withdraw From Nato. Starmer Says He’ll Unwind Brexit and Move Closer to Europe
President Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling out of Nato, prompting Keir Starmer to announce a fresh move towards closer ties with Europe and the unwinding of Brexit. The Mail has more.
Keir Starmer signalled a fresh push to unwind Brexit today as Donald Trump ramped up his abuse of Britain.
The President said the UK “doesn’t even have a navy” as he accused Keir Starmer of only caring about building “windmills”.
He also dismissed Nato as a “paper tiger” and said America leaving the military alliance was now “beyond reconsideration”.
But at a Downing Street press conference, Sir Keir swiped that Iran is “not our war” and insisted he was giving “calm leadership” despite “pressure” from the White House.
The PM also declared that he is mounting a new drive to cosy up to the EU, with “closer economic cooperation and closer security cooperation”. He said a summit would be held soon on a “more ambitious” relationship as Transatlantic ties fray.
Sir Keir was updating the country on the Government’s response following the latest brutal barbs from Trump. …
Asked about Trump’s threat to pull out of Nato, Sir Keir said: “Firstly, Nato is the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen, and it has kept us safe for many decades, and we are fully committed to Nato.
“Secondly, that whatever the pressure on me and others, whatever the noise, I’m going to act in the British national interest in all the decisions that I make.
“And that’s why I’ve been absolutely clear that this is not our war and we’re not going to get dragged into it.
“But I’m equally clear that, when it comes to defence and security and our economic future, we have to have closer ties with Europe. That’s why we had the summit last year.
“This year, as I’ve just announced, there’ll be a further summit. There, we will make good on equipment that we put in place last year, but we will also go further in relation to the alignment.”
In an interview with the Telegraph published shortly before the press conference, Trump again took aim at the UK.
“You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work,” he said in a dig at Britain’s warships.
Pressed if the PM should spend more on defence, Trump said: “I’m not going to tell him what to do. He can do whatever he wants. It doesn’t matter. All Starmer wants is costly windmills that are driving your energy prices through the roof.”
Trump was asked whether he could reconsider US membership of Nato.
“Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration,” he said.
“I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”
The President would need the approval of Congress to withdraw America from the military alliance.
Worth reading in full.
Sadly, none of this is an April Fool.
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Much as I enjoy Trump throwing darts at Starmer, if he carries on like this he may end up getting him re-elected, much as contributed to Carney getting in in Canada.
I’m pretty sure a majority of the UK public still think Trump is mad, deranged, a dictator – basically suffer from some degree of TDS – and are incapable of processing the truth behind a lot of what Trump says.
Trump may, or may not, be a loose cannon but at least he is not the EU corpse running 20 years behind events.
President Trumpo is not mad, deranged or a dictator. He is the elected President of the United States. The Democrats and their media allies can rant about him as much as they like but he is doing rather will in delivering what he said he would do when seeking election. You and the chattering classes mighgt not like his way of speaking but he gets things done.You and the media may not like the fact he has not given you private briefings on every step of the way to defang Iran, but he has largely achieved that objective. The world in general nd USA and its ally Israel are much safer as are the immediate neighbouring countriues now Iran has no ability to build a nuke any time soon and it has lost most of its missiles and production capacity for more of them. The reaction of the US President was mild following the refusal to support or assist by various European nations. But the reaction will not be short lived. I believe there is a real possibility that NATO is over. The rerst of NATO other than the USA has cheated on its mutual defence commitments for too long.… Read more »
One thing is now clear, the Iranians have no choice but to develop a nuclear weapon, they don’t even need to get anything particularly sophisticated to do so. They have been accused of developing these weapons for the past 25 years and despite the deranged accusations of our so called elites have not done so. Trump and the lunatics advising him have made it obligatory to become a nuclear power in order to stop themselves being robbed blind.
I tend to agree, though I don’t know enough to have a firm opinion.
Check out a few contributors on YouTube. Alexander Mercouris, Douglas McGregor, Daniel Davis, Jeffrey Sachs, John Meersheimer, Judge Napolitano, Gilbert Doctorow and Alastair Crooke.
I see from the down votes that some people would prefer to bury their heads in the sand.
Also checkout this
https://youtu.be/xvs_VsRbwsU?si=qa7r5NuJuNwy406_
“…despite the deranged accusations of our so called elites…”
And the Islamic Iranian regime is sane?
They may or may not be, but do you think the insanity of the USA government will affect the government in Iran or vice versa?
Strange, I didn’t see you writing that when the last 5 American presidents have been saying they need to deal with Iran. Now one has finally stepped up and done it. Better now, before they have nuclear weapons, than later, when they do.
An interesting theory re. Starmer’s re-election, but I still doubt he will cling on in office for long after the local elections, which I still expect to demonstrate widespread disapproval of this government. As its figurehead, Starmer would then be under immense pressure from within his own party, who would hope that by using him as a the scapegoat they could somehow scrape together enough support to wield some power following the next general election.
Yes, I agree that’s a problem, though it’s our problem not Trump’s.
I tend to think the Iranian escapade is a mistake, not because I have TDS (I think most of what he has done makes sense and I don’t care about his brash style).
But he has just played into the hands of those who wish to portray him as a crazed maniac. He has not done anything that lots of other US Presidents and UK PMs have not done, but they were less brazen, cooked up dossiers, UN resolutions, quoted international law etc. And they spoke more weasel words during the bombings. Trump doesn’t pretend, and is happy to sound like he is making it up as he goes along (maybe he is).
My bet is that this may play out like the tarriffs, where everyone went nuts as Trump shat all over the precious orthodoxies of the clever classes and in the end amid his chaos, everything ends up ticking along just fine.
Do you know what tarriffs are in force right now? At what level? If you’re like me you’ve heard all.manner of tarriffs being imposed and taken off and put on again and you’ve long lost track of where we are and…. did anything happen? Did world trade collapse? The stock market?
I suspect these “oil shocks” will come and go and we won’t really know how it’s all ended up playing out in Iran, just like we don’t really know what’s going on in Venezuela.
Except, he’s made some fundamental shift in something that a few people understand and the effects of which we won’t begin to really see for a while. But they won’t be the obvious ones.
You may be right but I don’t think that’s what people will remember or focus on. They have a preconceived image of Trump which has been confirmed for them by his participation in the attack on Iran, and whereas I used to be able to argue that he had not done as much bombing of other countries as his predecessors, I can no longer do so.
That’s very true. The peaceful Trump story is dead.
I repeat look at this
https://youtu.be/xvs_VsRbwsU?si=qa7r5NuJuNwy406_
“Much as I enjoy Trump throwing darts at Starmer, if he carries on like this he may end up getting him re-elected,…”
Then many people are stupid.
I just watched this absolute cretin spouting his lies. He talked about cutting the cost of energy as a virtue while anyone with a single brain cell should know that it is him and his other lunatics who have caused the price increases in the first place.
His duplicitous ways concerning the EU are even more nauseating, it is him and his other co-conspirators who have done their best to undermine Brexit and cause as much damage as possible.
They are heaping misery upon misery on the country whilst pretending that they care about the people, they do not, they are completely insane.
If only Starmer were the problem.
Every government for over 20 years has driven us down this path.
20+ years of laws and regulations piled one on top of the other to destroy fossil fuel industries and promote windmills and solar panels is a big thing to untangle.
20+ years of climate brainwashing is also a big thing to have to contend with.
What we can hold against Starmer – apart from the fact that his voice is perhaps one of the most offensive sounds in the known universe – is that he is just carrying down the same path and like anyone voted in to office would be unable to change course, even if he wanted to.
This is it from here one out. We’re going off the edge, whether we like it or not.
I agree, but this man spent his time in opposition saying that Bojo was a liar and has shown without a doubt that he is an order of magnitude worse.
These people are so insane that they seem to think that causing chaos will prompt people into ushering in a socialist paradise. Certainly the Fabians are in this category. In fact most of the government are Fabian liars who have deliberately lied to the public for years. They behave more like criminals than politicians. But as is clear from the experiences of communist countries all they ever cause is corruption and collapse and we are well on the way.
The left is determined we leave the lifeboats and get back on the Titanic, just in time for it to sink.
Upvoted, as I assume you’re referring to Starmer or milliband. You might make it clear, though.
Trump is right about our PM and military capability. Rodney hates Nationalist Russia as they have betrayed his Trotskyist beliefs. He won’t buy their oil and gas and won’t use our ready to go North Sea supplies. Our aircraft carriers are either being rebuilt or can’t be used in range of hypersonic missiles or undersea drones. Rodney is sending the PoW to the Arctic to defend against a non existent threat. All of our frigates are in dock and don’t work. The only one which was sent to Cyprus took 3 times longer to get their than a cargo boat. We have no national missile defence. Our army would last a week against an invasion. At least we have 10 times as many admirals and generals as we need. So now he will get his way to pay for hardly existing EU defence, which none of them have the money or remaining industries to create In 10 years. Power cuts and bankruptcy here we come.
The Mount Rushmore one had me for a minute.
Me, too!
The bill to do this is apparently still going through Congress:
H.R.792 – 119th Congress (2025-2026): To direct the Secretary of the Interior to arrange for the carving of the figure of President Donald J. Trump on Mount Rushmore National Memorial. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
Had to be fake – he wouldn’t want to share with anyone else on the mountainside would he
Starmer the puppet is acting to preserve the power and influence of the malign UK deep state. Prior to the Trump revolution it had managed to rope in the USA, or at least the Democrat presidents. It has now lost the USA, hopefully for good, and knows that its only hope is to join forces with the EU.
I doubt if one basket case joined up with another basket case is going to project much power. Even together, they are a pitiful laughing stock on the world stage.
“Starmer Says He’ll Unwind Brexit and Move Closer to Europe”
Move closer? If only the nitwit would move TO Europe and leave us in peace.
But his dad was a foolmaker dontchaknow…..
When I voted for Brexit, the UK was still just about recognisably the UK, and it seemed there was a chance of saving our national identity. After a decade of policies whose effect has been to undermine our economy and fragment British society to such an extent that it’s hard to say what “being British” actually means anymore, I find it hard to see that my vote really counted for anything. Now that Starmer has succeeded in alienating the US, the arguments for rejoining the EU will gain more traction with the electorate. The Uniparty’s scheme is bearing fruit, it seems.
Which Europe is he planning on moving closer to, possibly with a view to rejoining? The economic powerhouse that exists only in his head, unlike the real, sclerotic basket case. The green wonderland, that is going to force more costs on to us to achieve 2030 and further devastate our industry while the examples of Germany and Italy, who are and have always been ignoring 2030 burning coal for their electricity. Is he keen on the Europe that mandates live export of animals, the one that will scupper any plans he may have for renationalisation of industries, due to laws around state subsidy? Is he rejoining the Europe that will force us to take even more illegal migrants or the one that is just about to kick them back to where they came from, in what will be an anathema to his back benchers and legal supporters, while also opening up our jobs to cheap foreign labour from Africa and South America, that managed to get citizenship of Germany, Spain and Portugal due to nefarious historic ties. Will it be the Europe that dumps product into this country, while overseeing the destruction of our industry, such as the Ford Transit… Read more »
Do we have to keep seeing his Traitorous Mush , he’s only the messenger but he needs a proper shoe ing !!
I’m looking forward starmer eventually taking a decision in the best interests of the British people, that’ll be quite a novelty.
Starmer has no mandate to rejoin the EU. The UK is not his plaything.
I don’t believe this government thinks it needs a mandate for any of the decisions it takes. It conned enough people into giving them a majority. That gives them carte blanche to do what they like and ignore the fact that they’re not delivering on any of their campaign promises.
The Establishment’s plan is to make us an Associate Member of the EU.
The intention, as Cameron attempted to negotiate, is to have a two-tier Organisation:
Merkel refused to implement it and as a consequence, we voted to LEAVE. From the day the result was announced, the Establishment has been working to create the conditions for Associate Membership. It’s why, despite “delivering Brexit,” they did NOTHING to take advantage of it and NI was used to restrict our ability to govern ourselves.
A year or so ago, Macron revived the idea of a two-tier EU.
Towards the end of WW2 Churchill drew three overlapping circles:
The USA
The Commonwealth
What became the EU
And in the centre triangle, he wrote the words ” UK.”
THAT’s basically what Two-Tier announced yesterday.
All Farage has to tell Von Der Layen is Reform UK will reverse it and they wouldn’t touch Starmer with a barge pole. In fact Starmer may be seen as Reform UK ‘s trojan horse.
Farage has already said that, which is why the EU/Two-Tier are attempting to “Farage-proof” the deal by including draconian/unaffordable penalties.
I do not support the proposal. I wanted a real Brexit and I still do. I am simply explaining what, in my opinion, the British Establishment is aiming to do and why.
I’m assuming the picture of Mount Rushmore is fake!