Das Ende der westlichen Allianz bedeutet, dass Großbritannien mutiger sein muss, sagt der Direktor des Chatham House

Bronwyn Maddox described Trump’s impulsiveness, taste for military action and rejection of international law as amounting to a revolution. She said US allies “must now contemplate what was unthinkable: to defend themselves against the US, in both trade and security”.

“It is not grandiose to call this the end of the western alliance,” she said, in the sense of countries “sharing principles of individual liberty, intellectual and religious freedom, constitutional democracy and free trade at their heart”. Maddox said these principles “have been the engine of their prosperity as well as the rationale for their global influence”.

She said in recent months we had seen “the rejection of principles of international law that the US helped forge – even if it often declined to apply those to itself”.

The UK and the EU must forget Brexit and try to mend ties anew, disregarding the messy Brexit years.

We need closer alignment, NOW.

Based on what I’ve read, the head of Chatham House is urging Britain to maintain a hardline policy against Russia and China, to distance itself from the US, and to forge closer ties with Europe.

Huge development, considering their close ties with the government. Starmer will pay attention to this. It’s almost like it’s giving cover for him to diverge more

Yes, let’s restore our empire and become the global superpower again.

The UK should be back in the EU and spear-heading a joint defence force, NATO or otherwise.

Hear me out, let’s start but not paying 100 million a year to give away the most strategic base in the Indian Ocean to a country that has never owned it and is very closely allied with China.

Chatham House wants the UK to act if it still has an empire provided it pushes for a series of beliefs and values that align with its own prejudices.

It also wants much the same for the EU.

The rest of the world doesn’t want nor need either to recreate our empires as a tool for the morality of the liberal international order nor do I suspect do the citizens to either the UK or EU.

I suspect the UK and EU would benefit much more from turning inwards and away from the rest of the world, and its myriad of problems to focus on those at home vs abroad, and strengthen it’s own armies to protect it’s external borders in radically different world.

Hmmm, wishful thinking, Starmer is incapable of bold.

To be fair, the UK has the most capable military and intelligence services in Europe. As everyone else was in the dark in Europe about the upcoming invasion of Ukraine the UK had advanced knowledge of it due to our intelligence services.

Closer integration with Europe is a no-brainer for everyone.

He forgets that the UK is nearly broke. Hard to be bold when we don’t have the unlimited credit card that the US does.

We’d like it back from the US, but would rather not go through a world war to get it back.