{"id":4287,"date":"2026-03-05T04:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/4287\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:48:07","slug":"america-needs-europe-after-all-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/4287\/","title":{"rendered":"America needs Europe after all\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starmer, however, is standing his ground, refusing to authorize anything more than \u201cdefensive\u201d operations from Royal Air Force facilities in the U.K. and overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez is also playing hardball with Trump, condemning what he regards as a law-breaking operation in the Middle East and similarly refusing to let American planes take off from airfields\u00a0under his control. S\u00e1nchez incurred Trump\u2019s rage as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And French President Emmanuel Macron \u2014 ever the critical friend \u2014 called the Iran war dangerous, warning it doesn\u2019t comply with\u00a0international law<\/a>\u00a0and couldn\u2019t be supported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez leaving an International Women\u2019s Day event in Madrid. S\u00e1nchez is also playing hardball with the U.S. president, incurring Donald Trump\u2019s rage as a result. | Cesar Vallejo Rodriguez\/Europa Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The rift now threatens to escalate into a major trade confrontation between the United States and the European Union, while the mythologized \u201cspecial relationship\u201c between the U.K. and America is on life support, as the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence approaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not Winston Churchill that we\u2019re dealing with,\u201d Trump said, as he explained his particular frustration with Starmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said \u201cthe President expects all Europe \u2014 all of our European allies, of course \u2014 to cooperate in this long-sought-after mission, not just for the United States, but also for Europe, to crush the rogue Iranian regime that not only threatens America, but also threatens our European allies as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer, however, is standing his ground, refusing to authorize anything more than \u201cdefensive\u201d operations from Royal Air Force…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3074,177,388,648,3075,38,687,3076,1143,3077,3078,382,1120,1683,537,2035,1680,34,94,688,1376,49,179,3079,690,1217,3040,55,443,1218,2678,445,3080,56,691,51,36,226,2679,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-4287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-cyprus","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-defense-budgets","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-drones","15":"tag-emily-thornberry","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-friedrich-merz","21":"tag-george-w-bush","22":"tag-germany","23":"tag-greenland","24":"tag-immigration","25":"tag-iran","26":"tag-iraq","27":"tag-keir-starmer","28":"tag-macron","29":"tag-middle-east","30":"tag-military","31":"tag-military-strategy","32":"tag-missions","33":"tag-pedro-sanchez","34":"tag-rights","35":"tag-russia","36":"tag-security","37":"tag-spain","38":"tag-tanks","39":"tag-trade","40":"tag-transatlantic-relations","41":"tag-ukraine","42":"tag-united-kingdom","43":"tag-united-states","44":"tag-war","45":"tag-war-in-iran","46":"tag-war-in-ukraine","47":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}