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May 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On Monday 14 May, Hammond told British MPs at the House of Commons that “tough decisions” had been made and he could “balance the books” and close the “yawning black hole” in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) budget.
The “tough decisions”, which were required to plug a £38bn black hole in the UK’s defence budget, forced the MoD to extensively cut a range of equipment projects.
“It could be that some of the methods that we’d rather hoped or aspired to do in the future are no longer obtainable”, said Britain’s most senior military commander, General Sir David Richards.
MoD projects which have to be cut include replacement for the early warning Nimrod surveillance aircraft, armoured fighting vehicles, and remotely operated drones, which are a key part of US military capabilities.
The extensive cuts to MoD projects comes as ever since the end of World War II, Britain has been pursuing the “lieutenant strategy”, as described by George Friedman, an American political scientist and the CEO of the private intelligence corporation Stratfor.
Friedman says that after World War II Britain decided to become “America’s lieutenant, wielding a military force that outstripped in number — and technical sophistication — the forces deployed by other European countries.”
This way, Britain could “influence US policy” and “prompt the use of US forces in its interest”. Instantiations of that “influence” could be found in the US support for Britain in its war against Argentina over the Malvinas in 1982 and London’s success in persuading Americans to intervene in Libya in 2011.
However, signs of cracks in the so-called ‘Special Relationship’ between Britain and the US have been widely seen as the US president Barak Obama termed France not Britain as the closest ally of the US in 2011.
Furthermore, earlier this year, The Daily Telegraph revealed that the US had cast a skeptical eye on Britain’s military capability by initially refusing to let Britain take part in a show of strength when a flotilla of US vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Now, with the new extensive cuts to MoD projects aimed at plugging the “yawning black hole” in its budget, could Britain still remain America’s number one ally and “prompt the use of US forces in its interest”?
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