Trump’s renewed criticism of the Chagos deal is reportedly because he is being blocked from using UK bases for a strike on Iran.
Donald Trump has withdrawn his backing for Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal because he has not received UK approval to use its military bases for a US strike on Iran, it has been reported.
The US president attacked the agreement to hand sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius and lease back the Diego Garcia joint UK-US military base as “a big mistake”.
His latest U-turn on his previous support for the deal is because of the UK Government’s refusal to give the White House the green light to use the Diego Garcia base or RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire for a potential military campaign against Iran, according to the Times.
Good
Ah yes, Mr No-Wars warmongering again
Plot twist of the year: Starmer found a spine?
There’s no coalition this time. You’re on your own murca (well you’ve got your boyfriend Israel but they’re a bit tied up massacring children at the moment)
Unfair to Israel. They are also massacring women, the unarmed, the injured, the red cross etc etc. They are massacring or killing just about everybody. So please be fair to their efforts and not just limit them to children!!
How do you know about this? Did they forget to kill a journalist somewhere?
Looks like they recently killed a 19 year old American citizen too, but he was brown so they will get away with it
Their snipers activelly target children in Gaza and they activelly supported their boy Epstein with his sex ring using children.
There’s clearly a very special relationship between Israel and children.
Trump:
Should Iran decide not to make a Deal, it may be necessary for the United States to use Diego Garcia, and the Airfield located in Fairford, in order to eradicate a potential attack by a highly unstable and dangerous Regime
Can someone please do that to us.
Ah yes, potential attack! It’s like a repackaging of the WMD argument…
Not that I doubt Iran’s crazed potential in the least, but currently the only potential attack comes from the US to cover up domestic sewage…
What will be the first target, “one way or another”-Greenland or Iran?
Well, well. The worm turns.
What could possibly go wrong? The short victorious “war” rallies citizens, especially those who the nationalistic (MAGA / NRA). It diverts from domestic issues like employment, the economy, ICE raids etc. It allows low scrutiny and speedy legislation changes. All at the low low cost of lives and future threats of retaliation.
And remember how we treated the Afghani’s who helped the coalition during that war? Yeah, there will be absolutely no local support this time round.
“America first! We don’t need anyone!”
TFW the Brits are like, nah, we don’t want to help you overthrow the shah of Iran.
Trump insulted all EU military fairly recently so that’s probably a double nah from the former allies…
But hey he has his board of peace now, with all the …oppressive… countries in it, perhaps they’ll send highly trained soldiers to die in Iran.
Somehow I think not.This whole thing can go haywire (including many civilian deaths), especially under Trump. It makes sense for UK to tell them to leave UK out of it. Besides, while going after Iran’s regime is somewhat popular opinion - US doing it on the other hand suddenly makes it sound much more controversial.
I’m with you, on all counts. And I think not wanting to touch USA’s shit is a legitimate take right about now. Shit, it was the wrong take to back in 2001/2003, and it was the wrong take back in *checks notes* most of US history, but right now for sure. We got our own problems now anyway, many of which were directly caused by the USA, so…
