Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to media after addressing Royal Navy Submariners of the HMS Agamemnon nuclear submarine and to BAE system apprentices outside of the BAE system factory, in Barrow-in-Furness, Britain, March 20. Reuters-Yonhap
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said U.S. President Donald Trump has a point that European countries must bear a greater burden for their collective self-defense, the New York Times said on Sunday.
"We need to think about defense and security in a more immediate way," he told the newspaper in an interview.
Starmer is trying to assemble a multinational military force that he calls a coalition of the willing to keep Ukraine's skies, ports and borders secure after any peace settlement, the report said.
On Trump, Starmer said, "On a person-to-person basis, I think we have a good relationship." But, he said, the U.S. leader's actions, from imposing a 25 percent tariff on British steel to berating President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, had generated "quite a degree of disorientation." (Reuters)