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Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms
imrighthere@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Could somebody explain to me why the UK keeps bending over for trump ? You have a bit of russian in the house or something ?
lemmus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 6 months ago
That’s not actually correct. The missiles (the rocket part) are indeed leased from the US, and the maintenance every few years is thus done by them - which keeps the cost down. The warheads are the UKs.
A freshly serviced trident missile should be good for 5-7 years (although they currently get serviced more frequently).
If the UK falls out with the US then we have a number of years to either build or own replacement or buy/lease them off another country - France for example has several options in this space that could be easily adapted.
We are where we are because nobody could imagine the US going rogue like this, a failure of imagination for sure but our nukes are in fact in our control
…org.uk/heres-how-britains-nukes-are-operationall…
TheTonDog@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Blame the historic “special relationship”. We’re a US vassal state, out of touch with the rest of European sentiment.
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Probably keen to represent GSK, AstraZeneca and financial services companies. Though to hell with the rest of us.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
From an international perspective, it just makes the British government look scared and weak.