The United States has threatened to oppose Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.

The United States has threatened to oppose Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.

The proposal is among measures being drawn up by senior defence officials at the Pentagon as an incentive to hit Nato’s 5 per cent spending pledge.

A senior US official told The Telegraph that Britain was likely to receive “special attention” in Washington’s review of its allies’ commitment to Nato, which will examine whether member nations have credible paths toward the target.

  • Kirp123
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    2 days ago

    I can’t understand how people can listen to him going on about how there’s a B in dumb and take him seriously at all.

    • CharlesDarwinEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      This guy’s followers talk the same way about “maga” that the aliens talked about “Marklar” in that South Park episode. So we aren’t talking about the most coherent bunch of people, and they don’t really make any demands of competency or logic from their leaders, either.

      I think I should print up a bunch of red hats with MARKLAR on them and see if I can start a cult. We can have fun debates about who is the true Marklar with the most Marklar of beliefs.