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Donald Trump has withdrawn his backing for Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal because he has not received UK approval to use its military bases for a US strike on Iran, it has been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.
Plot twist of the year: Starmer found a spine?
Just cynical calculations, he doesn’t have the support to declare war and it would be political suicide for him if he did. Israel owns him, he made his name in purging the party of people opposed to Israel’s abuses, during Corbyn when they purged the party of him and all of his supporters mostly under bogus bigotry charges, accusing and removing more jewish people of anti jewish bias than others per capita.
Maybe. Or maybe he’s suffering pressure from the rest of Europe.