Tag:

ALLIES

Trump reacts to Canada hitting back at U.S. with tariffs on $29.8B worth of goods

by archytele March 15, 2025

written by archytele

The federal government announced a plan on Wednesday to slap tariffs on $29.8 billion worth of American goods to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump after he imposed punishing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum early Wednesday morning.

UK military’s readiness for ‘all-out, prolonged war’ in doubt, Defence Committee finds

by archytele February 14, 2024

written by archytele

From destroying drones fired by iran-backed militants in the Red Sea to promising support for Ukraine against Russia for as long as it takes Britain enjoys a legacy leadership role on the world stage but it’s one that’s looking increasingly shaky with a damning report by MPS calling into doubt the UK’s Readiness for

War across 72 Pages it lay be shortages in weapons ammunition and people even as threats from Russia China and Iran grow the MP said the UK armed forces have deployed above their capacity in response to the worsening security situation but all have capability shortfalls and stockpile shortages and

Are losing Personnel faster than they can recruit them it is all about choice though that’s why defense is in such a crisis successive governments since the end of the Cold War chose to cut the size of the military to invest in other areas but given the renewed threats to Global

Security the UK faces another big decision increase the priority placed on defense maintaining the country’s status as a nuclear power and military leader or stop talking so tough and agreeing to do so much without the means to back it up the head of the committee of MPS that

Wrote the report said Russia’s war in Ukraine raised the Spectre of allout conflict returning once more to Europe the risk profile has increased we’re living in a more dangerous world and we as a country need to uh uh we need to RSE up to that and ensure that we meet

The challenge and continue to deter a Ministry of Defense spokesperson said we’re spending more than 50 billion pounds on defense this year alone and have significantly increased our spending on defense equipment to 288.2 billion pound over the next decade yet in the latest sign of strain a plan

For the UK’s Flagship to lead a major NATO exercise has been paused after the aircraft carrier developed a fault the Royal Navy said HMS Queen Elizabeth will be replaced by its other carrier as soon as possible Deborah Hayne Sky News

February 14, 2024 0 comments

News

UK unveils sanctions against Iran after plot to kill two TV presenters exposed

by archytele February 6, 2024

written by archytele

Let’s bring you some breaking news now the government’s announced new sanctions coordinated with the US targeting Iranian officials let’s bring in our political correspondent Rob poell for more H Rob what can you tell us so reading the details Jane this is not um a direct response to those um killings

Of US troops in Jordan which of course the US and the UK um has blamed um Iran and Iranian linked groups for this looks to be something that has been in the offing for a little bit longer than that and is actually a response to some Revelations from a TV documentary um in

December what it is is a sanctions package that targets seven individuals and one organization um uh they say that they are senior Iranian officials and members of organized criminal gangs who collaborate with the regime um and the organization is part of the Islamic revolutionary guard Corps uh unit 840

Um exposed in an investigation into plots to assassinate television presenters from the news channel Iran International on UK soil so it essentially means that some senior um Iranian officials and this organization will be subject to asset freezes and travel banss so um organizations in the

UK won’t be able to hold money on behalf of these people um or the organization um and uh the travel ban clearly means that they won’t be able to travel into the UK um either um there’s some details uh that have been released by the government as well saying since the

Start of 2022 the UK’s responded to at least 15 credible threats and plots to kill British or uk-based individuals by the Iranian um regime so this is to do with essentially the domestic threat and the threat posed potential threat posed by Iranian linked groups and individuals

To people within the UK and is a response um to that it is not a response to that um drone attack and the deaths of US troops that we’ve seen in the last 24 hours or so maybe what some um that want a tougher response towards Teran

Would also be calling for in response to this is full prescription of the irgc there have been calls from labor and from some conservatives as well for the group to be described as a terrorist organization um and clearly we wait to see what the response a likely military

Response you would think would be from the US and potentially the UK to those deaths that we saw on the Jordan Syrian Border in the last day or so okay Rob thanks very much

February 6, 2024 0 comments

News

Middle East: How will the US avoid escalation?

by archytele February 6, 2024

written by archytele

Well Joe Biden’s dilemma is made even more complex because of Iran’s role as Puppet Master in the region well our International correspondent Alex Rossy is with me now and Alex you know for months we’ve heard uh the US say we’re trying to avoid escalation but that’s exactly what’s what’s happened now here

And um what we’ve seen is exactly that escalation yda we are now coming to an inflection point and in many ways this is what Joe Biden and his administration were really trying to avoid they were hoping to a avoid remember that the policy that the United States has

Pursued since October the 7th has been one of unalloyed unbridled support for the Israelis but at the same time trying to contain the fire from spreading across the region but it is spreading remember now where this theater has opened up Syria Iraq Lebanon Israel Gaza and now of course with the surface

Personnel in Jordan as well three uh arm Armed Forces members killed he has to respond he has to try to restore his deterrent how he does that it’s difficult there aren’t any good choices but it comes to either sending a very convincing strong message in a region

Where hard power is respected or looking weak and as far as many of these actors in the region are concerned the United States is already looking weak tonight yeah so talk us through the options then what are some of the options that Biden has well this is you know what he’s

Being pushed to do domestically is I suppose the the kind of big red button option and that is a direct strike uh in Iran the calculation of course is that all of this chaos that we’re seeing across the region really starts in tan and you need to send a very convincing

Message to tan to desist and stop it and by striking on Iranian salt you do that but of course the risk is that actually you set off a chain reaction across the region which worsens things but to do nothing again this cycle continues we’ve got we’ve had what 170 attacks so far on

US forces and this one was deadly so they have to do something when they do it again we don’t know I suspect it will be seriously thought about calibrated there will be things that they can look at you know certain things that they can can hit but I think they’ll take their

Time going back from hitting Iran they could hit say Iran revolutionary forces in Iraq or Syria that would be another option and I suppose the the least option that they could do is Target the militias who perpetrated this attack on US forces yeah as you say a number of

Options there that we will continue to discuss uh on the program Alex thanks so much

February 6, 2024 0 comments