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"Why? Other countries have domestic politics, too.

We've created a situation where the U.S. is unpopular in Europe. Which makes it more painful in their domestic politics to be helpful to the U.S. It's not a binary - European nations won't be telling us to pound sand at every turn - but at the margins it just imposes a domestic political cost to be cooperating with the U.S. on things." - Albaby

While I am sure there is a huge domestic political aspect to Starmer denying the U.S. access to its bases to bomb Iran, I am also sure that there is a NATO aspect to this as well. After spending the past decade constantly berating other members of NATO and complaining how it is a one-way street, I am sure there have been discussions among other NATO countries to look for opportunities to tweak the nose of Trump and show him that the U.S. needs the other member countries as well if he wants to do certain things.

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