The article analyzes Prime Minister Keir Starmer's predicament in navigating Donald Trump's volatile pronouncements. Starmer faces the challenge of responding to Trump's incendiary statements without escalating tensions or jeopardizing the UK's economic interests, while also upholding international law and values.
It’s all an absolute waste of time. It’s malevolent, of course, and vindictive and petty and vicious and ignorant and insane. But most importantly, it is a waste of time.
In the end, Environment Secretary Steve Reed said he wouldn’t “provide a running commentary” on Trump’s pronouncements, but insisted that “Palestinians should be able to return to their homes”. Every word rings with the anguished conversations which formulated them. Will any of this happen? Will we really see American troops launch an amphibious assault on the Gaza Strip and start shooting at people? Will we see an invasion fleet launch for Greenland?
World leaders are just as stuck as the rest of us. Starmer’s choices over Greenland and Gaza are just the start. He must somehow battle this firestorm of daily controversy without being enveloped by it. How can he do it? How can he strike his own course and achieve his own objectives when the world is composed of such utter chaos?
But what is the outcome if Starmer comments on everything that Trump says? First, he triggers a tariff war against himself. Second, his own time as Prime Minister becomes entirely defined by whatever is happening in the White House. He loses the ability to set his own agenda, to talk about his own issues. He becomes just another amplifier in the Trump chaos circus.
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