{"id":72394,"date":"2026-04-22T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/britains-military-dependence-on-us-no-longer-tenable-says-former-nato-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:55:00","slug":"britains-military-dependence-on-us-no-longer-tenable-says-former-nato-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/britains-military-dependence-on-us-no-longer-tenable-says-former-nato-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s military dependence on US \u2018no longer tenable\u2019, says former Nato chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at \u2018historic low\u2019 and two allies are likely to keep diverging<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/apr\/22\/keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-pmqs-olly-robbins-peter-mandelson-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Britain\u2019s high military dependence on the US \u201cis no longer tenable\u201d and the UK has to become increasingly independent of the special relationship with Washington, a former Nato chief has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Robertson, who last week accused British leaders of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/apr\/14\/uk-war-footing-defence-review-fiona-hill\">\u201ccorrosive complacency\u201d towards defence<\/a>, said on Wednesday the traditional allies were diverging over values \u2013 and that even after Donald Trump, the separation was likely to continue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/apr\/22\/britain-military-dependence-on-us-no-longer-tenable-lord-robertson\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at \u2018historic low\u2019 and two allies are likely to keep diverging UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Britain\u2019s high military dependence on the US \u201cis no longer tenable\u201d and the UK has to become increasingly independent of the special relationship with Washington, a former Nato chief &#8230; <a title=\"Britain\u2019s military dependence on US \u2018no longer tenable\u2019, says former Nato chief\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/britains-military-dependence-on-us-no-longer-tenable-says-former-nato-chief\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Britain\u2019s military dependence on US \u2018no longer tenable\u2019, says former Nato chief\">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-72394","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\/72394","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=72394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}