The optics are honestly better in the sense that Britain was humiliated on the world stage and it became obvious that the US could tell it to back down at will.

This looks like Trump is bad at diplomacy, which is awful, but not the same.

April 08, 2026 - 16:02 UTC

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Britain got pushed around by another Superpower.

Trump got pushed around by (checks notes) Iran...
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Britain had to unilaterally withdraw from the Middle East, that seems *very* unlikely here and we still don't know *what* is going to happen with tolls, Israel, uranium, etc.

My *guess* is that the US functionally traded Khamenei's head for tolls, which is moronic but much less one-sided.
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