The solution is to make greater efforts to detach ourselves from an unstable and unreliable partner. This will require greater defence spending, but the resulting strategic autonomy will be worth it. Time to face facts. The “Special Relationship” is dead.

Yeah, we need a much larger homegrown defence industry, greater nuclear cooperation with the French, and the biggest Navy since 1899. Less dependence on the US gives greater strategic autonomy.

So called "anti-imperialists" will always deny agency of smaller countries when latter act against the will of empires the former support