The Falklands Card: How Trump Weaponised Britain's Iran Snub to Redraw the Special Relationship

Donald Trump told GB News on Wednesday that Britain "weren't there to help me" in the war with Iran, explicitly linking that grievance to a potential US withdrawal of support over the Falkland Islands. "Your country is not the same country it was 20 years ago," he said, questioning whether the UK still has "the capacity" to retake the islands as it did in 1982. The remarks came after Sir Keir Starmer refused to send Royal Navy vessels to help America reopen the Strait of Hormuz...