S8 Ep513: Gregory Copley reports that Prime Minister Starmer is blocking US use of British bases in Cyprus and Diego Garcia for Iran strikes, causing a terminal rift with President Donald Trump. 14.
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Betts with Gregory Copley, and we're in London now with this headline. |
| 0:20.7 | Why Stamer won't help Trump bomb Iran? |
| 0:23.9 | Prime Minister taking a cautious approach, goes the subhead. This is a telegraph. While U.S. |
| 0:29.7 | President leaves him in the dark over justifications for the war, if the war in Iran was Starmor's |
| 0:36.5 | only problem, it's statesmanship, however it is not. |
| 0:40.6 | Starmer is associated with a now suspect who has been arrested, former named ambassador to the United |
| 0:48.8 | States, Mendelssohn, a friend of the now disgraced and removed Prince of the Blood, Andrew. |
| 0:57.4 | Starrmer didn't create the Epstein problem. Starrmer didn't create the Iran problem. |
| 1:04.3 | Starrmer, however, is in very ill repute with his own labor party. Does he survive is the question they ask every day. |
| 1:14.3 | Your measure of Parliament right now, it looks to be frozen, Gregory. It's not moving in any |
| 1:19.4 | direction, despite the overwhelming majority that Starrmer holds in Parliament. |
| 1:30.4 | He looks to be satisfied with what? |
| 1:33.9 | What is he remaining in office to achieve? |
| 1:39.4 | Well, I think he's hoping that he will get enough dignity back so that he can retire or resign with some degree of honor. |
| 1:46.2 | That's a tough, tough ask. |
| 1:50.6 | Look, the whole question of not helping President Trump on Iran is part of the problem, but it's not because of ideological concerns. |
| 2:05.2 | It's because President Trump has threatened, in fact, to make him look ridiculous, |
| 2:11.9 | because Stama promised to give the Shagos Archipelago, which is where the Diego Garcia major bases, |
| 2:21.4 | give it to Mauritius. |
| 2:24.3 | And to say that's a replica of colonial British era, which is now gone. |
| 2:29.8 | Well, if Diego Garcia goes, then the US.S. ability to dominate the Indian Ocean and the northern Indian Ocean and South Asia is also gone. |
| 2:41.7 | So what's happened is that President Trump has made it clear the U.S. will not tolerate the U.K. going ahead and giving away the Chegos Archipelago. |
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