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Only Islamist Britain could have kicked America in the shins on the eve of the Iran war – Lee Cohen | <\/p>\nDonald Trump has launched Operation Epic Fury against the Iranian regime, killing Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one of the most treacherous enemies of the West. <\/p>\n
On 28 February 2026, the United States, in joint action with Israel, struck military installations, nuclear facilities, ballistic missile sites, naval assets, and leadership targets across Iran. <\/p>\n
Trump declared major combat operations underway to destroy Iran’s missile industry, annihilate its navy, eliminate its nuclear threat, and give the Iranian people their chance to overthrow the mullahs. <\/p>\n
He urged Iranians to rise up and take control of their government. This decisive strike against the hub of state-sponsored terror will define Trump’s legacy with a blaze of glory: confronting the most implacable evil head-on when others falter.<\/p>\n
Keir Starmer’s legacy will be the opposite: crushing Britain’s sovereignty, security, and prosperity through retreat, concession, and cowardice; degrading its respect on the world stage. <\/p>\n
Where Trump acts to protect the West from a regime that arms proxies, pursues nuclear weapons, and represses its citizens, Starmer blunders, equivocates and surrenders.<\/p>\n
In his statement yesterday, the Prime Minister condemned Iran’s retaliatory strikes but refused to endorse the US-Israeli action. <\/p>\n
He emphasised de-escalation, urged restraint, and confirmed British forces are engaged only in defensive operations \u2014 planes in the sky to shield allies, never striking the aggressor. <\/p>\n
Starmer’s words reveal hesitation: Iran must \u201crefrain from further strikes\u201d and \u201cgive up their weapons programmes,\u201d while he avoids backing the regime’s destruction. This is not leadership; it is moral equivocation born of fear.The pattern is clear and damning. <\/p>\n
Labour’s governance erodes Britain piece by piece. Weeks before the strikes, the government refused to allow offensive use of RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia, citing concerns that such action would breach international law and make Britain complicit. While Trump struck decisively to cripple the regime, Starmer confined British forces to defensive patrols only. <\/p>\n
The Chagos Islands betrayal persists: Starmer clings to his plan to cede sovereignty to Mauritius, even as Trump \u2014 explicitly linking the base’s future to Iran contingencies \u2014 calls it a \u201cbig mistake\u201d and urges against handing away Diego Garcia. This risks strategic leverage in the Indian Ocean amid rising global threats, all to appease legalistic internationalism.
Gibraltar fares no better.<\/p>\n
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Starmer’s reluctance to stand with Trump and Israel stems from the same timidity that prevents proscribing the IRGC \u2014 Tehran’s terror arm \u2014 despite its role in repression and proxy violence. <\/p>\n
Small boats pour across the Channel unchecked. Influence from radical ideologies grows in towns and cities across Britain, where integration has faltered and social cohesion frays. A government that fears alienating certain communities at home cannot summon resolve against threats abroad.<\/p>\n
Geopolitically, Britain faces stark realities. The Special Relationship provides deterrence, intelligence, and power projection \u2014 no European substitute exists for hard security. <\/p>\n
Energy independence demands freedom from hostile suppliers; secure borders require unflinching control over migration that strains resources and culture.<\/p>\n
Defence must match rhetoric with action, not hollow commitments. Trump’s strikes demonstrate that focused resolve and credible force restore leverage and deter aggression. <\/p>\n
Britain’s current course\u2014 blocking US offensive use of its own bases, ceding territories, equivocating on Iran, tilting toward the EU \u2014 diminishes that leverage and accelerates decline.<\/p>\n
The choice is binary and inescapable. Britain can reclaim its place by aligning with Trump’s resolve: standing shoulder to shoulder with brave nations against Iranian terror, rejecting retreat, and prioritising sovereignty, security, and the transatlantic bond that has sustained freedom. <\/p>\n
Or it can follow Starmer deeper into impotence and irrelevance \u2014 surrendering outposts, appeasing threats, crawling back to the EU and watching national pride erode under a government more concerned with not offending than with defending. <\/p>\n
History will record Trump’s legacy as the man who brought down the most fearsome enemies of the West. Starmer will be the leader who lets Britain decay and destruct. The British people deserve far better. But can they wait until 2029?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has launched Operation Epic Fury against the Iranian regime, killing Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,8274,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-797203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-membership","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116154783892196848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797203","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=797203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}