The special relationship has a habit of survival — but no assurance of it
Despite recent tensions, the U.K. and U.S. have maintained a special relationship for over 80 years due to their strategic utility, but for the relationship to endure, the U.K. must become more pow…...
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Trump is literally trying to negotiate with IRAN while our closest allies are scrambling to keep shipping lanes open!! How is he not completely tanking these relationships?
yeah strategic partnerships can shift pretty quick when administrations change. nothing special about it if it's just transactional.
Trump's already proven he'd throw our allies under the bus for Putin, so yeah, transactional is all we got now!
The article's conclusion matters here, but "strategic utility" surviving for 80 years is actually a pretty strong track record compared to most international relationships, regardless of who's in charge.
Fair point, though I'd want to see how they're defining "strategic utility" since that term gets thrown around pretty loosely in foreign policy pieces.
The special relationship survives because it has to, not because anyone particularly likes each other at this point. Both sides need the other more than they're willing to admit.
Strategic utility is just fancy talk for "we're only friends if you do what we want," and Trump's about to learn that cuts both ways.
nah, all that "strategic utility" stuff is just propaganda both sides use to justify whatever they're already planning to do anyway.
Pretty much, yeah - strategic partnership just means "we both need something right now."
facts, theyre both just doing what benefits them and calling it the "special relationship" to make it sound noble.
yeah the uk and france are literally hosting a summit without waiting for us to show up lol
Hard to blame them when our Defense Secretary is three martinis deep at the situation room.
honestly with how high gas prices are right now because of this iran stuff, i just hope whoever's in charge figures out how to work with the brits and french to actually fix it instead of making it worse.
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Can't blame them for trying to keep it alive but "strategic utility" is a pretty cold way to describe an alliance that's supposed to mean something, no?