President suggested US might not help UK if Argentina tried to seize Falklands – a new low for UK-US ‘special relationship’

Last week, Donald Trump suggested in an interview with the British TV channel GB News that he might not help the UK if Argentina tried again to seize the Falkland Islands. It was a new low for UK-US relations.

The “special relationship” (Winston Churchill’s phrase) was never perfect, but the UK helped the US on countless occasions, from Korea to Iraq to Afghanistan. The US often stood by the UK as well – although not during the Suez Crisis of 1956, but Ronald Reagan’s government provided significant intelligence and logistics support to Britain during the dust-up over the Falklands in 1982. That relationship is fading fast.

Alan Greenspan wird als unabhängiger Fed-Chef in Erinnerung bleiben. Ihm verdankt die US-Notenbank ihren guten Ruf, der auf dem Spiel steht.

From Frederick Douglass to Obama, Ben Rhodes shares the speeches that explain the US in his new book, All We Say

Donald Trump “has proven Jeremiah Wright correct about a lot of things”, said Ben Rhodes, a former speechwriter and deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama and still a close aide to the ex-president.

“If you look at the things that Jeremiah Wright was kind of canceled for, it was saying America was a nation founded on racism. Well, it’s a fairly common view these days. 9/11 was the chickens coming home to roost? I make versions of that argument every time I write for the New York Times: that American foreign policy has blowback.”

Einer wie Morris Pearl ist in den USA selten: Er ist Millionär und fordert höhere Steuern für Reiche. Ein Gespräch über Steuertricks, die keine sind, seinen Verbündeten Zohran Mamdani und die neue Wut auf die Superreichen.