With that single question, Trump shattered decades of carefully maintained British diplomatic posturing, exposing a truth long known but rarely acknowledged: without America, Britain is militarily exposed. Or as Sir Humphrey Appleby said while echoing Winston Churchill: “The Americans will always do the right thing… after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” But what if it didn’t as Trump joked, and led to Keir Starmer’s awkward chuckle.
