| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Alan Clark ! Brexit , Trump , Democracy great !!! | |
| Posted by: | Francis Rowe | |
| Date/Time: | 31/01/17 11:27:00 |
| Jeremy Corbyn has built a career on taking virtue signalling principled stands and there is no doubt that is exactly what he will do here. He has this luxury because he will never be in a position of power and influence outside of the Labour party. Theresa May is in a very different situation in which she has to do things that she will privately find unpalatable and humiliating but needs to do so because it is the national interest. When Trump's administration first raised the possibility of inviting her as the first foreign government leader to visit the White House the decision to accept would have been taken in concert with our European allies. Whatever is happening with Brexit there is a clear commonality of interest on defence and this is probably the most unsettled time since the mid-eighties. Germany and France will almost certainly have encouraged her to go to Washington and put NATO top of the agenda. We are at a critical point in American policy formulation. The overwhelming majority of their military and diplomatic establishment are four square behind NATO and see it at the core of their defence strategy. The new President may or not be compromised by Russia but is certainly very favourably disposed to them and is avowedly isolationist. Our diplomats and military were probably advised strongly by the pro-NATO faction in the States to accept the invitation. The trip seems to have limited success in shifting Trump's position which was its primary aim. There is no way that the British Government would have issued an invitation for Trump to come on a state visit. This was a demand from Trump and apparently came with a series of details riders about what he would like to happen on the trip. The overwhelming urge must have been to tell him to take a running jump but there really is no choice to accept this demand. This is something that the narcissistic clown who effective controls most of our defence capability deems to be of top importance. There is no doubt were he to be snubbed the payback would be an immediate policy change on America's commitment to NATO. This would be followed by annexation of the Baltic States by Russia and a concerted attempt to bring the rest of Eastern Europe back under its thrall. Pathetic and shameful this invitation certainly is but avoidable it isn't. |