Starmer has said "Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and the US has taken action to alleviate that threat". So he has implicitly backed Trump’s action.
We Brits can bemoan Starmer’s misjudgement, and we can point out that Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2017, weakening it so that Iran felt free to proceed with its nuclear weapons programme.
It is pointless to have a war of words with Starmer over his opinion. The point is, what can Britain as a nation do to de-escalate the international tensions around nuclear weaponry?
There is something we can do. We can demand loudly and insistently that our country should ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), the agreement that was passed in the U.N. in 2017, with 122 nations in favour, and one (Netherlands) against. Britain, to its shame, has not signed up. If Starmer did sign the UK up to the TPNW now, he would be the first nuclear weapons state to do so. It would be a highly significant move, an act of leadership, one that could set the world on a course towards eliminating the curse of nuclear weapons, and the threat of nuclear war, completely.
This is an appropriate time to start out on the road to a world without the shadow of nuclear war over it. It takes a crisis of the magnitude to the Middle East crisis that we are facing to jerk us out of our sleep of nuclear unreason. There are 14,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Just 100 are all it needs to plunge us into darkness for months. 14,000 will have an impact akin to the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs.
Ayatollah Khameni is a knave, Trump is a fool, and Starmer at the moment is behaving like Trump’s toy. Nuclear war is bigger than all of the petty tyrants in the world put together. Nuclear destruction issue, and than involves all of us. It is time for not just Britons, but all people on earth to demand an end to the nuclear nightmare, globally.
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