Ex-Nato commander defends Starmer after Trump’s ‘no Winston Churchill’ jibe
by Ben Quinn Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#7404G)
Gen Sir Richard Shirreff says US president has launched war of choice in Iran with no clear grasp of how it will end
Britain cannot become embroiled in a war without a clear end point", a former senior Nato commander has said, as he defended Keir Starmer after Donald Trump's jibes that he was not Winston Churchill".
Trump was another American president who had launched a war of choice," said Gen Sir Richard Shirreff, as a minister insisted that the UK prime minister had acted with a cool head" by not allowing British bases to be used for initial strikes.
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