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Donald Trump has withdrawn his backing for Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal because he has not received UK approval to use its military bases for a US strike on Iran, it has been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.
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…