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The United Kingdom shamelessly prostrated itself at the feet of Donald Trump on Wednesday, throwing a lavish welcoming party for his state visit to Windsor that resembled less diplomacy and more fealty.
In doing so, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely.
It will silence dissent, empty out its traditions, and rent out its monarch like a sex worker, deployed to flatter the ego of a man who has spent much of his political life suggesting he should be treated like one, a monarch, not a sex worker, that is.
As stage props go, the monarchy is unbeatable. But if this is what the “special relationship” between the U.S and the U.K. now means, it looks to many in Britain less like a partnership and more like groveling, feudal servitude.
archive article: https://archive.is/DxOAv
Giving legitimacy to a fascist just empowers them domestically and internationally. It’s not a shell game where you’re giving nothing. Legitimacy is directly how governments operate, it’s the real currency of the world. Legitimacy is frankly the bedrock of currency itself.
Disgusted as I am, and wishing the international community would make us Americans pariahs, that just doesn’t play. More than ever, we’re economically dependent on each other. A foreign government can’t simply tell the largest economic engine on Earth to fuck off.
Once our eventual fall from economic grace gets bad enough, alliances realign, then they can tell us to fuck off, not before then. It’s just history man!