Donald Trump spent a lot of time on the phone on Sunday. US journalists have taken to cold-calling the US President on the off chance he picks up and gives them an interview.
This time the Financial Times got lucky, with an eight-minute rant about Nato and a threat to the UK and other European allies. “We have a thing called Nato,” Trump told the FT. “We’ve been very sweet. We didn’t have to help them with Ukraine. Ukraine is thousands of miles away from us. But we helped them. Now we’ll see if they help us. Because I’ve long said that we’ll be there for them, but they won’t be there for us. And I’m not sure that they’d be there.”
The threat was clear from Trump: support my war in the Middle East or I’ll withdraw help for Ukraine. This ill-planned show of strength from the US and Israel has sent oil prices rocketing. Iran is holding out by closing the key Strait of Hormuz “to its enemies” and now Trump demands his allies help pick up the pieces.
Later in his phone binge on Sunday afternoon, Trump called Starmer. The Prime Minister, with a 15-minute late afternoon call, got seven minutes more than the FT. Judging by the scant details of the call, it appears Trump rebuked his key ally, as the PM urged de-escalation. There we have the current special relationship in a nutshell.
In a press conference today, Starmer said he is working with European leaders to come up with a “collective plan” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, adding later it would not be a Nato-led mission. While highlighting that the US operation had “massively weakened” the military capability of Iran’s “abhorrent” regime, Starmer said the key question was, “What comes next?”
He stressed his support for Ukraine at his news conference, saying he plans to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky soon, “because it’s vital that we continue to focus on supporting Ukraine,” adding: “We cannot allow the war in the Gulf to turn into a windfall for Putin.”
Starmer has spent the first part of his premiership making a virtue of how close he is to Trump. Now, he hopes his difference from Trump will win him the advantage.
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