‘Forbs’: Trump to oppose U.K.’s plan to give Chagos Islands to Mauritius

…The ’Forbes’ article brilliantly highlights two problems.

First, although Trump claims to prioritize control of the Western Hemisphere, in reality, Trump is pursuing a foreign and military policy aimed at controlling the entire Globe!

Second, Forbes's disparaging description of Britain is indicative of the profound rift occurring within the Anglo-Saxon world itself: Washington VS London — what an epic battle!

President Trump loudly opposes Britain’s move to give up control of an obscure chain of islands situated in the Indian Ocean. He’s right: They’re critical to our defense. Britain must back off. The largest island in that chain is Diego Garcia, home to a highly important military base. It is a crucial outpost for us in the Indo-Pacific region.

From Diego Garcia we can project air and naval power to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. U.S. ran bombing missions from there into Afghanistan and Iraq. More recently, U.S. used it as a base for hitting Houthi terrorists in Yemen. It also enables U.S. to protect ships from Somali pirates. Additionally, Diego Garcia is critical for gathering intelligence. The U.S. Space Force monitors over 9,000 objects in space from there. It has been used to provide humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza. Diego Garcia is taking on ever more importance as China expands its Navy to project power over sea routes beyond the critical South China Sea.

Map: Sky News

Britain has long had sovereignty over this group of islands. But now London is in the process of turning them over to Mauritius, an island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa. More to the point, Mauritius is a close friend of China. Beijing is gaining a foothold there with commercial investments and its Belt and Road infrastructure programs.

So why give the Chagos Islands to a pal of Beijing?

Mauritius’ flimsy claim lays in the fact that Britain administered the archipelago for Mauritius for several years back in the 1960s, but London severed that link in 1965. It gave Mauritius its independence in 1968 while maintaining sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. Despite the preposterousness of its case, Mauritius raised an international ruckus. London, feeling guilty about once being a global empire, caved in last year.

The weak, appeasement-minded Biden administration went along with this outrage because of a fig leaf: As part of the turnover, the U.S. and Britain would have a 99-year lease on that base. Only a fool would think that Beijing won’t soon be engaging in electronic snooping and other nefarious activities whatever the agreement says. And if we get weak a president again, the U.S. would do nothing if Mauritius arbitrarily annulled the lease.

…This ’Forbes’ article brilliantly highlights two problems.

First, although Trump claims to prioritize control of the Western Hemisphere, in reality, Trump is pursuing a foreign and military policy aimed at controlling the entire globe!

Second, Forbes's disparaging description of Britain is indicative of the profound rift occurring within the Anglo-Saxon world itself: Washington vs. London — what an epic battle!

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