Trump Might Kill the "Special Relationship"

Trump Might Kill the "Special Relationship"
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It would not just be the fractious personal relationship -- there is no conceivable British prime minister who would be able to fake respect for Trump's intellect and strategic insight. It is, fundamentally, what a Trump victory would mean: a triumph for nativism and isolationism. He means it when he says the US pays too much to defend the rest of the free world and even though the UK bears the cost of the deterrent we would not be immune.

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