BRITAIN is joined at the hip with a globally aggressive US regime headed by a shameless gangster.

Compartmentalised reportage across the British media is designed to stop us joining the dots.

The White House can openly publish a National Security Strategy saying it will “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the western hemisphere,” but this neoimperial project is never tied in BBC reports to its kidnap of Venezuela’s president or its talk of invading Cuba.

Nor are its threats to annex Greenland or the war it started without provocation against Iran mentioned when it shows up in the Far East pontificating about international security.

This is one administration, whose reckless violence from the Caribbean to the Gulf, resource theft from Venezuela to Congo and promotion of far-right extremism from South Africa to England form an ugly, coherent whole.

So we should confront the dishonest narrative pushed by Defence Secretary John Healey in Singapore at the weekend’s Aukus summit, announcing new investment in undersea drones flanked by his Australian counterpart Richard Marles and US War Secretary Pete Hegseth, a man who boasts about raining death on Iranian cities and blowing defenceless seafarers to smithereens.

Aukus is aggressive. It is part of the US military encirclement of China, and Britain is part of that, sending troops to participate in Japanese military exercises and warships to patrol the Chinese coast.

Healey says the undersea drones will protect submarine cables from sabotage.

The monopoly media has a lot to answer for here, too, since the alleged threat Russia and sometimes China are said to pose to these cables is based on the flimsiest evidence but never queried.

Russia is cited in cases like the alleged damage to an underwater telecoms cable by the anchor of the Chinese-captained, Hong Kong-registered New New Polar Bear cargo ship in 2023; but in court prosecutors never brought up a Russia connection due to lack of evidence.

Indeed, the idea the incident was deliberate is itself far-fetched. Undersea cables are damaged all the time — two to four break around the world every single week. The British government itself notes that “the overwhelming majority [of such cases] are not malicious, with up to 97 per cent arising from fishing activity or vessels dragging anchors.”

It is geopolitical suspicion rather than the breakages themselves which mean these incidents are now treated as malicious when they occur in the Baltic or the Taiwan strait. Anyway redundancy is built into the system; breakages rarely affect international communications.

Nor is the only unquestionable case of undersea sabotage of recent years — the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 — any longer mentioned, since initial Western claims that Russia blew up its own pipelines have been quietly dropped.

The strong evidence pointing to US culpability is never raised. Will the submarine drones we build with the Pentagon be used to defend infrastructure or destroy it when that suits Washington?

A scare doesn’t even need a cable to be damaged at all. In April Healey boasted of the Navy tracking Russian submarines across the Atlantic alleging they were loitering near undersea cables. No evidence, plenty of headlines.

The constant hype about a “Russian threat” is being used to militarise our society and justify a “defence” spending spree.

That doesn’t just affect funding for public services. It is aggressive in character. We are allied to the United States. As in Singapore, we announce these projects by its side.

And that is unacceptable when the US is attacking countries left, right and centre, with socialist Cuba now under existential threat with not a word of criticism from Healey or his boss in No 10.

The demand for an end to military co-operation with Israel is now mainstream: we must demand an end to military co-operation with the biggest bully in the playground too.