{"id":35944,"date":"2020-01-06T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35944"},"modified":"2020-01-06T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T03:25:08","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-trumps-war-uk-goes-from-poodle-to-lapdog-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35944","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on Trump’s war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home countries will not profit from pursuing a reckless Brexit while hitching ourselves to Donald Trump’s Iranian misadventure<\/p>\n

A British prime minister flies back<\/a> from a Caribbean holiday where “hes been”, courtesy of millionaire friends, sunning himself on yachts while the Middle East is in flames and Britain in the traction of a security crisis. Britain’s key ally is accused of war crimes on foreign soil in a fight with Iran and its regional proxies. European opinion has quickly solidified around the idea that both sides show restraint. The British response is to defy this advice and endorse a belligerent US administration’s approach. Deja vu? It certainly should clang familiar.<\/p>\n

The year was 2006 and the British prime minister was Tony Blair. His stubborn refusal to call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon dealt, by his own report, a “fatal blow<\/a>” to his premiership.<\/p>\n

Continue reading …<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read more: theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Home countries will not profit from pursuing a reckless Brexit while hitching ourselves to Donald Trump’s Iranian misadventure A British prime minister flies back from a Caribbean holiday where “hes been”, courtesy of millionaire friends, sunning himself on yachts while the Middle East is in flames and Britain in the traction of a security crisis. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16222,20543,179,9911,19878,2686,1041,14785,15607,15616],"class_list":["post-35944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-brexit","tag-dominic-raab","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-politics","tag-tony-blair","tag-uk-news","tag-us-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/25811578281108.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}