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Europe faces difficult choices in US and Israel’s war with Iran
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French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meeting on the roof of a hotel in Munich on Feb 13.
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- Europe is caught between irrelevance and embarrassment over the US-Israeli military strike on Iran, failing to reach a unified stance despite historical concerns.
- European nations showed divisions, with some distancing from US strikes. UK shifted to align with US after Iran attacked its Arab neighbours.
- UK Prime Minister Starmer's desire for a stronger stance against Iran revealed Britain's military limitations, with few naval assets available and a base already hit by an Iranian drone.
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LONDON – What’s worse? To be dismissed as irrelevant, or to be embarrassed? As the US and Israel pursue their military assault on Iran, Europe faces precisely this unenviable position.
