The United States has threatened to oppose Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/44708818

The United States has threatened to oppose Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.

The proposal is among measures being drawn up by senior defence officials at the Pentagon as an incentive to hit Nato’s 5 per cent spending pledge.

A senior US official told The Telegraph that Britain was likely to receive “special attention” in Washington’s review of its allies’ commitment to Nato, which will examine whether member nations have credible paths toward the target.

    • zip@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Right? That runs through my mind so often nowadays. It’s about to the point I may just actually start taking pills so I’m fucked up enough to not notice all the fucked-up shit going on around me.

      • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        That’s stupidity working as intended.

        You don’t want to even try to fix it. Your solution is to leave…mentally or otherwise.