The UK and the US is unlikely to be a partnership that doesn’t last. This may not be the assumption that follows a reading of its National Security Strategy published last month. It reads as a sort of guide to American worries at home and its concerns abroad. This isn’t the ethic of the document at all.
The US & UK have an arrangement whereby we support each other’s wellbeing, and this arrangement has lasted for a long time. It’s built into our respective security infrastructure, so it means we won’t nuke each other, at least. It’s also written into all our peace agreements, and other documents besides.
This is what people know if they study the arrangements and are able to look at the data. It’s not just out there because some public domain information is able to be litigated out of reality. This means it’s unsafe because the wording doesn’t hold together, or hold true. The fact of it helps us to survive here, and may even help us to thrive.
