{"id":72573,"date":"2026-04-24T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/could-trump-withdraw-us-support-for-uk-sovereignty-of-falklands\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:03:21","slug":"could-trump-withdraw-us-support-for-uk-sovereignty-of-falklands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/could-trump-withdraw-us-support-for-uk-sovereignty-of-falklands\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Trump withdraw US support for UK sovereignty of Falklands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal said to be contained in internal Pentagon email is thought to be bid to punish European countries for failing to assist in war in Iran<\/p>\n<p>The White House is considering punishing European countries that have failed to assist Donald Trump wage his war in Iran, according to an official within the Pentagon. Keir Starmer, once described as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/sep\/26\/keir-starmer-to-meet-donald-trump-in-new-york-in-push-for-good-relationship\">very nice<\/a>\u201d, is now routinely said by the US president to be a \u201ccoward\u201d and \u201cno Churchill\u201d. It is claimed that Trump could go further and withdraw American support for Britain\u2019s sovereignty of the Falkland Islands over which the UK and Argentina went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/apr\/01\/argentina-invades-the-falkland-islands-1982\">war in 1982<\/a>. The proposal is said to be contained in an internal Pentagon email.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/24\/could-donald-trump-withdraw-us-support-uk-sovereignty-falklands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal said to be contained in internal Pentagon email is thought to be bid to punish European countries for failing to assist in war in Iran The White House is considering punishing European countries that have failed to assist Donald Trump wage his war in Iran, according to an official within the Pentagon. Keir Starmer, &#8230; <a title=\"Could Trump withdraw US support for UK sovereignty of Falklands?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/could-trump-withdraw-us-support-for-uk-sovereignty-of-falklands\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Could Trump withdraw US support for UK sovereignty of Falklands?\">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-72573","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\/72573","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=72573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}