US 'to threaten Britain over Falklands' if Burnham does not hike defence spending | LBC (www.lbc.co.uk)

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The Trump administration could make the bombshell declaration as senior defence officials at the Pentagon try to force allies to hit Nato's 5 per cent spending pledge.

A senior official in the US reportedly told The Telegraph that Britain will receive "special attention" from Washington in its attempts to get Nato up to the spending figure.

The source said: “I would expect the UK to receive special attention because it has so much potential.

“We will therefore continue efforts to incentivise and enable the UK to step up in a major way.”

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[-] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago

Every time the US makes demands, former allies should cancel US defence contracts.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, but the US has dementia so whatever it says can be ignored.

[-] giant_smeeg@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking traitor to every ally

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

you europeans are the delusional ones thinking you're allies and not vassals. democracy doesn't exist on the west, only the usonian empire and its colonies. i sincerely hope your people start seeing this before europe is in ruins, like former empires have done to exploited countries for hundreds of years.