Bernie Sanders will 'absolutely' change US-UK defence relationship if elected president
" The defence relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom will “absolutely” change if Bernie Sanders is elected president, his campaign said on Thursday.
Tad Devine, chief strategist for the Sanders campaign, said the UK should be prepared to re-evaluate that relationship if the Vermont senator’s surging campaign ends in a general election victory, as Mr Sanders believes it is time the US stops “spending so much of its resources defending the rest of the world”.
“Bernie has been very outspoken about his priorities in terms of the collective defence of the United States and our allies,” Mr Devine told the Telegraph, noting that it will be “very different than the current military industrial policy of the United States”.
The comments came after an acrimonious debate between Mr Sanders and Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire that laid bare the rifts that have grown between the Democratic rivals.
The aura of inevitability around the former secretary of state has begun to dissipate after a “virtual tie” in the Iowa caucuses (Mrs Clinton won by four-tenths of one per cent).
In New Hampshire, it is Mr Sanders who holds the advantage. A poll released hours before the debate showed Mr Sanders with a two-to-one advantage in the state.
Even more worryingly for Mrs Clinton, a poll conducted after Iowa showed the race tightening dramatically nationwide, with Mrs Clinton on 44 per cent and Mr Sanders on 42 per cent. "
Source: Bernie Sanders will 'absolutely' change US-UK defence relationship if elected president - Telegraph
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" The defence relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom will “absolutely” change if Bernie Sanders is elected president, his campaign said on Thursday.
Tad Devine, chief strategist for the Sanders campaign, said the UK should be prepared to re-evaluate that relationship if the Vermont senator’s surging campaign ends in a general election victory, as Mr Sanders believes it is time the US stops “spending so much of its resources defending the rest of the world”.
“Bernie has been very outspoken about his priorities in terms of the collective defence of the United States and our allies,” Mr Devine told the Telegraph, noting that it will be “very different than the current military industrial policy of the United States”.
The comments came after an acrimonious debate between Mr Sanders and Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire that laid bare the rifts that have grown between the Democratic rivals.
The aura of inevitability around the former secretary of state has begun to dissipate after a “virtual tie” in the Iowa caucuses (Mrs Clinton won by four-tenths of one per cent).
In New Hampshire, it is Mr Sanders who holds the advantage. A poll released hours before the debate showed Mr Sanders with a two-to-one advantage in the state.
Even more worryingly for Mrs Clinton, a poll conducted after Iowa showed the race tightening dramatically nationwide, with Mrs Clinton on 44 per cent and Mr Sanders on 42 per cent. "
Source: Bernie Sanders will 'absolutely' change US-UK defence relationship if elected president - Telegraph
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