The United Kingdom shamelessly prostrated itself at the feet of Donald Trump on Wednesday, throwing a lavish welcoming party for his state visit to Windsor that resembled less diplomacy and more fealty.
In doing so, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely.
It will silence dissent, empty out its traditions, and rent out its monarch like a sex worker, deployed to flatter the ego of a man who has spent much of his political life suggesting he should be treated like one, a monarch, not a sex worker, that is.
As stage props go, the monarchy is unbeatable. But if this is what the “special relationship” between the U.S and the U.K. now means, it looks to many in Britain less like a partnership and more like groveling, feudal servitude.
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Agreed. And the UK is complicit in its support of the genocide… How does holding the US accountable for its own actions free the United Kingdom from its own?
You fully support the US, your labor party has doubled down on fascism and genocide, and your king just treated Trump like royalty… What do you mean you have nothing to do with it?
Only an ignorant person who refuses to learn anything about the world would wonder… You divided our lands and installed foreigners as monarchs and taught them how to use propaganda to train our youth to celebrate the new puppet rulers as “independence”.
Ha! I’m Palestinian! Always under the rule of expansionist empires, never done it ourselves. And everything we’re suffering today can be tracked back to your Balfour.
Oh right, so we can add revisionist to that list.
What did I revise? Accuse me with clearly articulated words and refute the facts I presented, don’t just throw an insult.