US, UK “Special Relationship” Over?
Sinking drug boats? Bad form, Yanks
“It was killed by Keir Starmer and his lefty lawyer mates who live in a fantasy world detached from the rest of us. They hate strong leadership and decisiveness.”
Suella Braverman, Former UK Home Secretary
‘The Special Relationship Is Dead’: UK Suspends Intelligence Sharing With U.S. over Caribbean Drug Smuggler Strikes
Oliver JJ Lane
The British government has reportedly suspended intelligence on Caribbean drug smuggling operations with the United States to distance itself from recent air strikes on cartel boats, seemingly siding with human rights lawyer maximalism over security interests.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy of using “kinetic strikes” to prevent drugs from making it to the streets of America has apparently been rejected by the human rights lawyer-led British government, evidently prioritising adherence to United Nations rules over its relationship with the nation’s most consequential ally.
Intelligence gathered from the string of British overseas territories and UK military intelligence assets stationed in the Caribbean is no longer being shared with Washington, according to CNN. The British government has refused to confirm or deny these claims, citing the importance of secrecy in intelligence matters, but the report cites an internal British source who states the UK stopped sharing intelligence a month ago, after the U.S. started sinking drug smuggler boats, and that his decision was reached because of human rights concerns.
Former UK Home Secretary and Attorney General Suella Braverman, a Conservative lawmaker who has established herself on the Farage-friendly right of the party, slammed the decision and warned that it would further damage Britain’s relationship with the United States, on whom the UK is ultimately dependent for security through the aegis of NATO.
Great Britain is withholding counter-narcotics intell, which presumably consists of who is loading what where, and when and how it will be delivered. So, Tren de Aragua, meth coke and fentanyl in Venezuela, by go-faster boat, surprise. Not simple fishermen. This on top of the recall of their Ambassador Mandelson and the Brit’s government-run media giant- the BBC- manipulating Trump’s 6 January speech. I’d expect a bit more than a strongly worded letter; more like a pissed-off Marco Rubio. Right Nigel?
Category: Dick Stepping, International Affairs
London has fallen… Along with the rest of the empire..
US-UK Special Relationship over? Are you talking about the one where we got tired of your shit and kicked you guys back across the Atlantic? Or the one where we saved your collective Limey Arses from the Huns….twice?
I’ve always enjoyed math, ever since I was a kid…I like math enough that my company commander noticed it and asked me to transfer from carrying the pig to using the M16 plotting board to direct 81mm mortar fire…
In that vein the math is simple, a few dozen shitbag black market drug importers bringing poison illegally across the border dead versus 70-80 thousand Americans per year dying of overdoses…if the 9-11 attack had killed 70,000 instead of 3,000 we’d have turned the middle east into fucking glass….but with drugs we just sit back and let a half million people die since the pandemic while we pretend the LEO community has an impact on the importation of drugs while ignoring reality….
It would be much nicer to see a lot of dead drug importers and cartel bosses while here at home we attempt to offer some sort of true treatment programs for those among us who can’t stop self-medicating with opioids and other harmful substances.
If “Great” Britain was still the strong, democratic nation it once was, then I might be a little worried by this…..now, not so much.
Well, the next time 007 needs some help, he can just bugger off!!
Oh no! And, practically speaking, what collection or analysis capabilities does the UK have in the Caribbean which we either don’t have or can’t quickly generate?
Or don’t already monitor?
Well, GCHQ and MI5 and 6 did some fine spying in support of the Russia Russia! Hoax treason op. So, don’t sell them short.
I think this is a hollow proclamation which “just happens” to coincide with COP30 in Brazil.
I find it difficult, though not impossible, that we rely greatly on UK intel concerning drug running in the western hemisphere.
Phuque ’em…
Not like we aren’t gathering intel in our own back yard.
If I was running drugs in the Caribbean I would be sporting
a British flag for spoof.
!
Yeah, fly the Union Jack, then file a claim in the UN when you are get smashed by the Hellfire missile.
Keir Starmer is a gutless, weapons-grade pussy…..among other things.
Starmer is Labor Party and they are Commie-light socialists. He has more values in common with Commie Mamdani than with Trump.
Weapons-grade pussy is hilarious. I shall steal that one…
Doesn’t Starmer qualify for the Hemisphere of Insults?
Two Tier Keir is the British equivalent of Justin Turdeau
Give the cartels a couple boats capable of reaching the UK. Nice slow ones we can monitor, as long as those boats only go back and forth to the UK, they are allowed thru. The cartels can further pollute the UK. Screw the Limey bastards.
Sounds good to me.
You’ll see this one again.
A shitload of british cities are run by muslim mayors so you can see where the country is going.
As if we needed another reason for why we had a revolution.
But perhaps we could ask the Muslim owners of England what THEIR opinion of killing drug dealers should be.
I suspect if they could speak truthfully, they would say “do it.”
Hmmm, align with a Muslim nation to defeat drug dealers.
“The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend.”
Not the relationship. Britain is dead. We are just seeing the death rattle.
Sad.
Oh no! Relations ending with the United Islamic Kingdom? Noooooo!!
Fuck them. Fuck them right in their Limey asses.