Nonetheless, Porter predicted: \u201cI think what you’re going to get is a very untidy mix of recognizing changed circumstances while clinging on to the old world order.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
What are the pinch points?<\/strong><\/p>\n The U.K. is heavily reliant on the U.S. for several key aspects of its defense network, including intelligence-sharing, the nuclear deterrent and F-35 fighter planes.<\/p>\n Mike Martin, a Liberal Democrat MP and former army officer, called for a rethink<\/a> of the intelligence the U.K. shares with America in the wake of the Signalgate<\/a> scandal, saying: \u201cWhen you share intelligence you obviously want to know if these people are trustworthy.\u201d<\/p>\n A second MP working on defense matters, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said that when it comes to reducing Britain\u2019s dependence on the U.S., \u201cwe should be asking ourselves, publicly and privately, what does that look like.\u201d<\/p>\n That view is seldom reflected, even in private, by ministers or officials, as they stick religiously to the line that there is nothing contradictory in the U.K. and U.S.\u2019s calculations about their own defense.<\/p>\n U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson argued in a speech last week that Trump \u201cis doing Europe a favor by confronting us\u201d with the notion that \u201cwe must become less dependent on America while remaining inseparably linked to America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nonetheless, Porter predicted: \u201cI think what you’re going to get is a very untidy mix of recognizing changed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[1213,473,32,2817,774,2819,807,2597,28300,46,332,811,2824,53,657,15,49,978,659,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-150982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-intelligence","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-john-healey","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-peter-mandelson","17":"tag-policy","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-security","20":"tag-tanks","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114611410864204868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}