The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot

The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot
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The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot
Author: George Monbiot
Published: Feb, 27 2025 08:00

Summary at a Glance

They include the misnamed RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, actually a US air force base, from which it deploys F-35 jets; RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, in reality a US NSA base conducting military espionage and operational support; RAF Croughton, part-operated by the CIA, which allegedly used the base to spy on Angela Merkel among many others; and RAF Fylingdales, part of the US Space Surveillance Network.

Nor can I make any confident statement about the extent to which weapons designed here might be dependent on US central processing units and other digital technologies, or on US systems such as Starlink, owned by Musk, or GPS, owned by the US Space Force.

Russia is no threat to US dominance, but Europe, with a combined economy similar to that of the US, and a powerful diplomatic and global political presence, could be.

Through the “Five Eyes” partnership, the UK automatically shares signals intelligence, human intelligence and defence intelligence with the US government.

At what point do we conclude that by sharing intelligence with the US, the UK might as well be sharing it with Russia?.

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