Ministers are insisting that Trump\u2019s regime can still be a friend. It\u2019s a delusion and a lie <\/p>\n
Whatever Britain\u2019s relationship with the US under Donald Trump might be, it should not be called an alliance. That word implies common goals, shared burdens and trust \u2013 a cooperative model that is not available from the White House.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s warped concept of reciprocity<\/a> is encapsulated in his belief that foreigners are guilty of \u201cpillage\u201d when they sell more goods to the US than they buy in return. The punitive levy, applied in proportion to the offending nation\u2019s excess exports, is a \u201creciprocal\u201d tariff in the president\u2019s lexicon.<\/p>\n Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ministers are insisting that Trump\u2019s regime can still be a friend. It\u2019s a delusion and a lie Whatever Britain\u2019s relationship with the US under Donald Trump might be, it should not be called an alliance. That word implies common goals, shared burdens and trust \u2013 a cooperative model that is not available from the White … 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-38328","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\/38328","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=38328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}