Wednesday, 15 April 2026
Will Europe regret the anti-Trump line?
Until now the position adopted by most members of the European Union and European outsiders such as Britain has been slowly becoming more and more anti-Trump. Rachel Reeves, the UK Chancellor now in Washington, has described Trump's war with Iran as a "folly". That sure won't go down well when she meets with US officials. Trump won't see her, that's for sure. Keir Starmer began his relations with Trump by being over-flattering and then switched to distancing himself from everything Trump said and did. President Macron has gone down the same route, and previous supporters such as Georgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, has attacked Trump for being rude about the Pope. As for the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, he is in a league of his own, coming out from the very beginning as anti-Trump once the war with Iran began. The German chancellor Friedrich Mertz has tried to be statesmanlike but has effectively denied Trump the support he was after over Iran. But will all these leaders come to regret their opposition? They have let the US and Israel take on one of the biggest threats facing world security, a nuclear-armed Iran. They may say it's Trump's war of choice but the fact is, Iran poses a threat to everyone and if the military action eventually gets the result Trump wants - a free and fair democratic Iran with no uranium-enrichment, no bomb and no state terrorism - then he will not be thanking Europe. He will be disdainful of Euorpe's lack of foresight. I know it is highly unlikely Trump will get everything he wants but if it turns out that Iran drops being a revolutionary pain in the neck and allows its people to enjoy a better future, the Trump will get all the kudos. New talks being planned for later this week suggest there may be a deal upcoming which just might end the war and bring peace for the Iranian people which they deserve. If that happens, Starmer and co are going to look pretty spiteful and humbled. It may not happen but if it does there are going to be a lot of humiliated faces in European capitals.
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