The US is notorious for its attempts at regime change over the years. But that was almost always in the Third World or non-Western world.
Who would have thought that the US would want a regime change at one of its closest allies, the UK? And yet that is what Elon Musk has been doggedly pursuing over the past few months. Earlier, Musk spoke as a private citizen. But no longer. He is now part of President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration.
Musk has publicly called for British PM Keir Starmer to step down saying he no longer enjoys public support. He has said that Starmer's continuance in office could spell civil war in the UK. He has lambasted Starmer for his alleged failure to crack down on criminal gangs in the sexual abuse of young girls when he was Crown Prosecutor.
And now comes the report that Musk is discussion with various groups in the UK to bring about Starmer's ouster well before the next UK elections. Musk has been talking to the UK's Reform Party to bring about regime change in the UK. But he dropped a bombshell recently by saying that the party leader, Nigel Farage, is not the right person to head it. This, after Farage had met him a month ago.
It is astonishing that there has been little condemnation of Musk's activities in the UK in the UK itself, on the European continent and in the US. Russia and China have been condemned for supposed acts that were nowhere as crude as what Musk is attempting.
Any self-respecting government would have warned a foreign individual off such blatant interference in its internal affairs. But when it comes to the US and Mr Trump, the norms are clearly different. How the British have fallen!
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