Posted on 01/05/2020 1:21:47 PM PST by conservative98
Britain’s foreign secretary insisted Sunday that the UK is “on the same page” as the US over the assassination of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani despite criticism over the lack of support.
Dominic Raab backed the deadly airstrike after his US counterpart, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, complained that European allies “haven’t been as helpful” as he had hoped.
“Let’s be very clear: he was a regional menace,” Raab told Sky News of Gen. Soleimani when asked if President Trump was right to order the killing.
“We understand the position that the Americans found themselves in, and they have a right to exercise self-defense.
“They have explained the basis on which that was done, and we are sympathetic to the situation they found themselves in,” he told Sky’s “Sophy Ridge on Sunday.”
Raab confirmed he would meet Pompeo in Washington this week, in a visit that he said had already been planned.
“We’re on the same page with our American partners,” he told Sky.
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Interesting. Quite different than what was being put out by the MSM that the Brits were livid with the US and that they had not been pre informed of the strike.
Yep...Daily Mail was making a big deal about the Brits not being informed. DM is very anti Trump and anti US
Yup. I think Boris told everyone to cool their jets and behave.
Once again the putrid “media” lies. Shouldn’t the “media” be required to attend training on integrity, honesty and controlling negative impulses? What pathetic poltroons.
Good news!
We have to go across the pond for a friendly voice of support.
Boris J. is starting to earn some PDJT cred.
Has Muti Merkel voiced her support for the muzzies in Teheran yet?
Fake News. Like most of what passes for news these days.
DM itself often seems unsupportive, but their comment sections are almost always overwhelmingly supportive of conservative (aka ‘the right thing’) viewpoints.
Their government are generally cowards, but the average native folk still have some fight left in ‘em, imho.
Apparently Dominic Raab never got the memo that everyone was supposed to repeat (the lie that) “Trump is an idiot, mad, stupid, war monger, dangerous, (insert word here), and that the world is now going to be destroyed because of what Trump just did. Boy oh boy, he will never get invited to proper events now.
Weren’t the French recently complaining that the U.S. wasn’t doing enough to push back against recent Iranian aggression?
“We’re on the same page with our American partners,” he told Sky.”
That’s because we share the same intel.
Well, they kind of where, justifiably, because Israel HAD been informed. Not a great way to treat an ally when this action could have profound consequences for uk personel in the region.
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