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(12,949 posts) Sat Mar 7, 2026, 11:52 PM Mar 7

Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after we've already won' and says UK aircraft carriers not needed [View all]

Source: BBC

US President Trump has accused UK Prime Minister Starmer of seeking to "join wars after we've already won" and says that "we don't need" UK aircraft carriers

The comments, posted on Trump's Truth Social platform, come after the BBC learned that UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been placed on advanced readiness

B-1 bomber jets were earlier seen landing at RAF Fairford after the UK allowed the US to use its military bases for defensive strikes on Iranian missile strikes. Starmer decided not to join the initial US-Israel strikes on Iran

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ceqvwrydzpqt

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Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after we've already won' and says UK aircraft carriers not needed [View all] progree Mar 7 OP

Starmer should take this off-ramp that Trump so generously offered Deminpenn Mar 8 #1

So, once again Labour Miguelito Loveless Mar 8 #2

We have airbases on Cyprus. There have been drone attacks. Emrys Mar 8 #5

Thanks for the context Miguelito Loveless Mar 8 #8

Well, I'm not entirely letting Starmer off the hook - Emrys Mar 8 #9

So we've won and the war is over???????????????????????????????? Marie Marie Mar 8 #3

If we've already won, stop the bombing radical noodle Mar 8 #4

I hate to partially agree with a demented pedo but BaronChocula Mar 8 #6

If we already won it, bring the ships and planes home, have a military parade with Private Wonder Why Mar 8 #7