Britain’s high military dependence on the US is “no longer tenable” and the UK has to become increasingly independent of the special relationship with Washington, a former Nato chief has said.
George Robertson, who last week accused British leaders of a “corrosive complacency” towards defence, said on Wednesday that the traditional allies were diverging over values – and that even after Donald Trump leaves the White House, the separation was likely to continue.
Lord Robertson, a former Labour defence minister and Nato secretary general, highlighted Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran, his decision to levy tariffs on traditional allies and, “most jarringly”, he said, the threat to wrest Greenland from Denmark.
He said the diplomatic tone from the White House had “reached a historic low point” with Trump’s repeated public criticisms of the UK.
Yeah but those are old enough to not have a Killswitch.
But there is a maintenance and support supply chain, which is effectively a kill switch in the long term
This is the correct answer. Only one place - in Florida - where UK nukes can be serviced.
They don’t have kill switches and do not use GPS (rather celestial guidance), but if you cannot maintain them you cannot use them.
It’s not like they couldn’t figure it out though. It’s old enough to be relatively easy to reverse engineer compared to anything with heavy coding. If they really wanted to make them their own, they could.
Good point, but I’m sure the brits can certainly figure it out.
That’s… not how SLMB maintenance works.