Jon Sopel
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India's foreign ministry has stepped in and said the attack on it was unacceptable.
Three Indian citizens were injured in that drone strike.
And so suddenly America says,
not finding a path through to the ceasefire, which has nominally been in place now for four weeks, is actually just angering everyone else who is now looking at Trump and saying, get on with it.
Just get on with it.
Yeah, completely.
Yeah.
And where are all the other world leaders or all the Western world leaders?
Well, weirdly, they're all in Armenia, or at least they have been over the weekend.
We saw Yerevan hosting the EPC, which is the European Political Council,
committee and you saw Macron and you saw Starmer there and you saw Mark Carney who a bit like Australia in the Eurovision sort of sneaks into these European gatherings and make no mistake this is about I think certainly from Britain's perspective a very visible question of well who are our allies where are our allies now while America is immersing itself in this what is starting to look like a bit of a forever war something that
is easily solvable if Trump were to sort of take the more obvious steps.
Starmer's saying, right, I need to be close to the EU.
I need to think about what we're going to pay to have a closer alignment with the single market.
Mark Carney's coming in because we're going to talk about Ukraine.
I mean, that gathering was not NATO, but it looked as if it could have been.
One other detail that has come out in the last 24 hours, which is really interesting,
Relates back to that trip that the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, did to Washington in April.
And she was there for the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, spring meetings.
But she did not hold back from telling the world quite publicly what she thought of Trump's involvement in Iran.