{"id":356457,"date":"2018-04-12T21:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nigel-farage-breaks-with-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T21:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:06:58","slug":"nigel-farage-breaks-with-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nigel-farage-breaks-with-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage Breaks With Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigel Farage has turned his back on US President Donald Trump, as the former UKIP chief cautioned Britain against intervening alongside the US in Syria.<\/p>\n

In an unprecedented break with the Republican leader, Farage said he would not want the UK to join forces with the US against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Farage\u2019s statement follows a volley of tweets from Trump warning Russia he intended to launch\u00a0\u201cnice and new and \u2018smart\u2019\u201d<\/em>\u00a0missiles against Syria.<\/p>\n

While Prime Minister Theresa May has joined French President Emmanuel Macron and Trump in saying those responsible for an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, should be held to account, Farage warned military intervention could lead to chaos.<\/p>\n

Referencing UK intervention in Libya and Iraq as examples of botched operations, Farage said on his LBC radio program:\u00a0\u201cWe intervene, we get rid of these Arab nationalist dictators because we think it is the right thing to do, having never thought through what the long-term consequences are.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n


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Farage rejected the idea of military strikes even if Assad were found to be responsible.\u00a0\u201cLook I don\u2019t know whether Assad used chemical weapons or not. I don\u2019t know why he would given he is winning the war anyway. But even if we knew it was him, and we decided we are going to attack military bases, attack the palace, if the result of concerted action with us, the Americans and the French results in the overthrow of Assad, is that the right thing for us to do?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWell we might think morally it is the right thing for us to do\u2026 because of some of the horrible, awful things he has done. But what comes next? Chaos, instability and maybe…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nigel Farage has turned his back on US President Donald Trump, as the former UKIP chief cautioned Britain against intervening alongside the US in Syria. In an unprecedented break with the Republican leader, Farage said he would not want the UK to join forces with the US against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Farage\u2019s statement follows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}