When a powerful nation's leader speaks loosely about the territorial integrity of its allies, the question that arises is whether words are policy or performance. This week, Britain's shadow foreign secretary Tom Tugendhat offered a measured answer: Donald Trump's remarks questioning UK sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and endorsing Irish reunification are the familiar currency of domestic electioneering, not the architecture of a new geopolitical order. In the long history of the Anglo-American relationship, such moments of rhetorical turbulence have often revealed less about the allianc