What does a Biden or Trump victory mean to the British public?
Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London
It might be obvious which candidate the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is rooting for in the upcoming US presidential vote. After all, Republican Donald Trump supported Brexit and Johnson's quest to keep his job as Prime Minister late last year.
And then there’s former democratic Vice President Joe Biden, whose former boss Barack Obama was no fan of Brexit. In September, Biden himself supported Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement after Johnson came out with his controversial Internal Markets Bill.
In 2003, the UK, under Prime Minister Tony Blair joined the catastrophic US-led invasion of Iraq launched by Republican president George W. Bush, a move that earned him the moniker, America’s Poodle. During the presidency of Barack Obama, a Democrat, NATO bombed Libya in 2011. The UK was one of the leading countries to join.
Politicians on either side of the Atlantic speak of the special relationship between the UK and the US. Four years after the Trump presidency where does that relationship stand?
On Trump’s long list of unilateral actions, withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement, and from the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal stand out in particular. Britain is a signatory to both.
With the ongoing Brexit saga, and the threat from the coronavirus to their lives and livelihoods, it appears that the outcome of the upcoming US presidential election has only added to the woes of the British public.
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