{"id":34550,"date":"2025-02-27T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/the-question-no-one-dares-ask-what-if-britain-has-to-defend-itself-from-the-us-george-monbiot\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:45:32","slug":"the-question-no-one-dares-ask-what-if-britain-has-to-defend-itself-from-the-us-george-monbiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/the-question-no-one-dares-ask-what-if-britain-has-to-defend-itself-from-the-us-george-monbiot\/","title":{"rendered":"The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US \u2013 if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates<\/p>\n<p>All the talk now is of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruegel.org\/analysis\/defending-europe-without-us-first-estimates-what-needed\">how we might defend ourselves<\/a> without the US. But almost everyone with a voice in public life appears to be avoiding a much bigger and more troubling question: how we might defend ourselves <em>against<\/em> the US.<\/p>\n<p>As Keir Starmer visits the orange emperor\u2019s court in Washington, let\u2019s first consider the possibilities. I can\u2019t comment on their likelihood, and I fervently hope that people with more knowledge and power than me are gaming them. One is that Donald Trump will not only clear the path for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, but will actively assist him. We know that Trump can brook no challenge to his hegemony. Russia is no threat to US dominance, but Europe, with a combined economy similar to that of the US, and a powerful diplomatic and global political presence, could be.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/27\/britain-defend-itself-us-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US \u2013 if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates All the talk now is of how we might defend ourselves without the US. But almost everyone with a voice in public life appears to be avoiding a &#8230; <a title=\"The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/the-question-no-one-dares-ask-what-if-britain-has-to-defend-itself-from-the-us-george-monbiot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}