The British monarch’s trip showcases an alliance held together by shared complicity and decline
King Charles III has gone to Washington, ostensibly to help the transatlantic cousins celebrate getting rid of his predecessor George III 250 years ago. But being a royally gracious loser is, of course, only a pretext.
In reality, as The Economist, the premier British mouthpiece of transatlantic orthodoxy, has deplored, Charles’s mission is to salvage what’s left to be salvaged from the sinking “special relationship” between Washington and London.
That the relationship is in very bad shape is obvious from the compulsive manner in which Britain’s…
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