{"id":13027,"date":"2025-03-15T04:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/on-the-tightrope-britain-tries-to-bridge-a-widening-trans-atlantic-gap\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T04:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:33:55","slug":"on-the-tightrope-britain-tries-to-bridge-a-widening-trans-atlantic-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/on-the-tightrope-britain-tries-to-bridge-a-widening-trans-atlantic-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018On the Tightrope\u2019: Britain Tries to Bridge a Widening Trans-Atlantic Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Five years after it left the European Union, Britain may have finally found a new role on the global stage \u2014 a gig that looks curiously like its old one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the frantic few weeks since President Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/world\/europe\/trump-eu-allies.html\" title=\"\">upended the trans-Atlantic alliance<\/a> with his overtures to Russia and rift with Ukraine, Britain\u2019s prime minister, Keir Starmer, has tried to act as a bridge between Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Starmer and his top aides <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/05\/world\/europe\/ukraine-zelensky-trump.html\" title=\"\">counseled President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine<\/a> in phone calls and face-to-face meetings about how to mend fences with Mr. Trump after their rancorous White House meeting. The prime minister has energetically lobbied the American president for security guarantees to deter President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia from future aggression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his high-wire diplomacy, Mr. Starmer is reviving a role Britain routinely played before Brexit. He bears comparison to Tony Blair, a previous Labour prime minister, who tried to mediate between President George W. Bush and European leaders in the fraught lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Blair\u2019s bridge-building didn\u2019t end well, of course: France and Germany refused to join Mr. Bush\u2019s \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d against Iraq, and Britain\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/20\/world\/the-struggle-for-iraq-the-ally-of-blair-and-bush-and-the-ties-that-bind.html\" title=\"\">lock-step alignment<\/a> with the United States frayed its relations with its European neighbors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, as Mr. Starmer puts together a new \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/02\/world\/europe\/starmer-zelensky-meeting-europe-ukraine-trump.html\" title=\"\">coalition of the willing<\/a>\u201d to protect Ukraine, he faces a similarly tricky balancing act. He is sticking close to the United States while trying to marshal a European military deterrent formidable enough to persuade Mr. Trump to provide American air cover and intelligence support to peacekeeping troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, Mr. Starmer is convening a virtual summit meeting of as many as 25 leaders, from Europe, NATO, Canada, Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand, to muster support for his coalition, which Britain is cosponsoring with France. He is expected to announce additional countries that will supply troops or logistical support to the coalition, which is designed to be a shield against Russia after a peace settlement with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After talking to the leaders by videoconference, Mr. Starmer is likely to continue his lobbying campaign with Mr. Trump for security guarantees \u2014 an effort that he shares with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/macron-europe.html\" title=\"\">President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> of France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Whether Mr. Starmer and Mr. Macron will succeed is anybody\u2019s guess, given that Mr. Trump has veered between bitter <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/europe\/ukraine-zelensky-trump-russia-war.html\" title=\"\">denouncements of Ukraine<\/a> and threats to impose sanctions on a recalcitrant Russia. Mr. Putin reacted warily to an offer of a 30-day truce made by Ukraine and the United States this week, while rejecting all talk of a European peacekeeping force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOf course there\u2019s a risk,\u201d said Peter Ricketts, a British diplomat who served as national security adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron. \u201cBut I think Starmer sees a greater risk of an avoidable catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Blair, he said, failed as a bridge because the divisions between European nations over Iraq were insurmountable. Mr. Starmer\u2019s challenge is an erratic American president, who seems determined to reset relations with Russia and is openly hostile toward the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cStarmer\u2019s going to do his very best not to have to choose between Europe and the U.S.,\u201d Mr. Ricketts said. Dealing with Mr. Trump, he added, \u201cmakes him vulnerable to sudden lurches, but so far, he\u2019s managed to stay on the tightrope.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Starmer, he said, has been helped by his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/30\/opinion\/why-its-ok-to-lie-about-a-secret-channel-and-when-its-not.html\" title=\"\">seasoned<\/a> and widely respected national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, who traveled to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, to help lay the groundwork for Mr. Zelensky\u2019s rapprochement with the White House, and to Washington this week to consult with Mr. Trump\u2019s national security adviser, Michael Waltz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A onetime chief of staff to Mr. Blair, Mr. Powell served as Britain\u2019s chief negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. He was also on hand for Mr. Blair\u2019s fruitless effort to bring France and Germany along in the military campaign against Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even before the crisis over Ukraine erupted, Mr. Starmer\u2019s government was seeking closer ties with the continent, not just on defense and security but also on trade and economic policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But thanks to Brexit, Mr. Trump appears to place Britain in a different category from the European Union, which may help make Mr. Starmer a more effective broker. The president has suggested, for example, that he may not target Britain with sweeping tariffs, though he did not exempt it from a global tariff on steel and aluminum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHaving one foot in, one foot out is a good thing for the U.K. in the present context,\u201d said Mujtaba Rahman, an analyst at the political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, \u201cbut only if we remain in the current state of phony war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf it becomes a real trans-Atlantic rift,\u201d Mr. Rahman continued, \u201cthen it is better to have the protecting power that the E.U. offers, at least in some areas. And in such a context, the U.K. would steer things better if it had two feet in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At first, Mr. Starmer\u2019s re-engagement with the bloc was distinctly a half step. After coming to power last July, he set about patching up post-Brexit relations in various European capitals but ruled out two conspicuous measures that could significantly boost trade: rejoining the bloc\u2019s giant single market and its customs union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His cautious approach, analysts say, is rooted in a fear of angering Brexit-supporting voters and of giving ammunition to Nigel Farage, the Brexit champion and leader of the anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., which has surged in opinion polls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the shock waves caused by Mr. Trump\u2019s recent pronouncements on Ukraine and Russia have swept away some of the roadblocks to a broader reset. They have given Mr. Starmer political cover, with even those on the right in Britain acknowledging the need for greater coordination on Europe\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt changes the whole context and puts everything else in perspective,\u201d said Mr. Ricketts, who served as ambassador to France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ivan Rogers, a former British ambassador to the European Union, said Mr. Starmer\u2019s diplomatic heavy lifting had impressed other European leaders, who had become used to a Britain that was either absent or vaguely antagonistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAll of that has reminded people that the Brits have re-engaged, and they might be more serious,\u201d Mr. Rogers said. \u201cYou are now facing such an existential crisis in the E.U. that the mood has changed a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That could open a path to more profound British re-engagement, especially if the Europeans decide to increase cooperation on military spending by creating a new initiative outside the existing structures of the European Union. Such an initiative could involve countries, including Britain, agreeing to common standards on issues like military subsidies and weapons procurement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That would essentially \u201ccreate a defense single market, which has never been there before,\u201d Mr. Rogers said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For all the potential upside, Mr. Rogers, who worked in Downing Street during the Iraq War, said he worried that Britain\u2019s role as a trans-Atlantic bridge would be hampered by its efforts to use its post-Brexit status to avoid the tariffs imposed by Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy worry is that it could appear to others that the U.K. wants to have it both ways,\u201d Mr. Rogers said. \u201cWe want to be a bridge, have the trans-Atlantic alliance, be central to it, while simultaneously making the argument that we are very different from the E.U., and the U.S. can exempt us from its tariff action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s a little difficult,\u201d he said, \u201cto run both those arguments at once.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/world\/europe\/uk-europe-trump.html\">Source 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