Trump Condemns Starmer’s “Great Stupidity” for Giving Away Chagos Islands in “Act of Total Weakness”
Donald Trump today accused Sir Keir Starmer of “giving away” the Chagos Islands to Mauritius “for no reason whatsoever” in an “act of great stupidity” – despite the deal having previously been endorsed by him and his administration. The Mail has more.
The US President said that “there is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness” by Britain in the Chagos Islands.
He used his anger over Diego Garcia to justify yet again why the United States should be handed Greenland, urging Denmark and his European allies to “do the right thing”.
But the UK Government has hit back and insisted that the Chagos deal was backed by their closest allies including the US.
Trump said in a Truth Social post today: “Shockingly, our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital US Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
“The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired. Denmark and its European Allies have to DO THE RIGHT THING.”
The US President is travelling to Davos for the World Economic Forum where he insists he will hold talks with European leaders about acquiring Greenland. Danish officials have decided skip the event in Switzerland this year. …
The British Government signed a treaty back in May to return sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which will also see Britain lease back the strategically important military base on Diego Garcia for £101 million a year.
Trump said of the deal: “There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness. These are International Powers who only recognise STRENGTH, which is why the United States of America, under my leadership, is now, after only one year, respected like never before.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.” …
The White House has previously indicated it is content to let the Chagos deal go through. Marco Rubio welcomed the “historic agreement” last May.
But critics believe Trump has never been given the full picture of the risk it would pose to US operations in the Indian Ocean. And now he has made it clear he disapproves.
But Starmer’s Government today doubled down – and insisted the Chagos deal had US backing.
Worth reading in full.
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Like the Super Embassy, the Chagos deal only makes sense if you consider China to be a friend and not an enemy.
I’m unsure about the embassy but the Chagos deal only makes sense if it’s assumed that Britain is an enemy which must be subdued and dismantled¹.
¹ Coming to think of that: The creation of so-called devolved administrations could have been another step in this direction.
Or you if consider Starmer, Miliband, Powell and the rest of the goon squad to be bought and paid for Chinese assets.
It is just possible that President Trump did not originally demur on Starmer’s Chagos policy because he wanted the same favour with Greenland. Starmer has not reciprocated and being weakened, now sabre rattles with a strong Chinese presence in London. Davos will be interesting tomorrow.
In my opinion, the Chinese have either got some serious career-ending “leverage” over Two-Tier …. OR Two-Tier wants the Chinese to operate the Surveillance State / Social Credit System he is desperate to create.
Trump is wrong. The UK has not given away the Chagos Islands. We’ve offered the Islands plus so much money Mauritius is scrapping income tax.
without a doubt this s the most inept and utterly useless government in our entire history. The country is being laughed at throughout the entire world.
Treacherous in that they are doing the bidding of the globalists. Inept in that they are really disorganised and incompetent in carrying it these orders.
So on the same day, our Government is criticised by Trump for the Chagos give away, by all of our allies for signing off on the Chinese embassy, has signed up to a deal to buy Chinese steel for wind turbines and Starmer announces he will visit China. And still people say Trump is not our friend for his actions, ignoring it seems the devotion of our Government to China!
President Trump has missed a very important reason for the Chagos deal. The vast amounts of money being squirted around give excellent opportunities for corrupt operators. Do you think the large crowd of international court judges, human rights lawyers, diplomats, civil servants, advisers, stakeholders etc etc didn’t think of this? And do you think there is a chance that any of them may have been planning to fill their pockets? Discreetly of course.
The corruption and embezzlement of public money is simply the necessary lubrication for the treachery. Much like what happened during the covid psyop
Also they bring the destruction of the UK economy that little bit closer, which seems to be the present government’s aim (for whatever reason)
Labour’s game plan:
1. What does China want?
2. See rule 1.
The London Mission of the Chinese Communist Party. Another act of GREAT STUPIDITY.
Britain cannot return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius because they were never part of it. Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean which was a French colony named Ilse de France before Britain conquered it as part of the Seven Years War.
The stance of the government of Mauritius in this respect is exactly like the stance of the government of Argentina wrt to Falklands or Trump’s stance on Greenland: Territory of a different state somene really wants to annex.
Indeed though I suspect they want the money more than the islands, which would otherwise be something of a burden – unless they sold them to China or India…
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Isle de France, not Ilse de France. The latter could refer to a French royal princess who – for some reason – was given the German first name Ilse.
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Trump should buy/invade UK. Hurry please!
I’m inclined to take Trump’s operation against Venezuela and the renewed noises about Greenland as an incarnation of the classic political maneuvre to start a foreign war to cope with domestic problems. That is, his tacit admission that he cannot do anything effective against his domestic political enemies and as these are the source of much, if not all of our misery, that’s not a reason to have much hopes because of him.
Not that there’s a reason to assume that Trump has anything but pretty ignorant contempt for Europe and Europeans. In this respect, he’s little better than the decolonizers, mass immigration proponents and the remaining anti-white-brigade. His motivations and goals might be different. But we’re still supposed to serve as doormat or maybe, as the wood used to feed the fire.
Trump is quite right to be contemptuous of the current European political class, and I think his move on Venezuela was actually very clever on several levels.
Greenland is undoubtedly a strategic asset for the western powers and it makes perfect sense to approach it in a more aggressive way and to deny it to China and Russia who are strategic rivals even if not actually enemies; I don’t necessarily approve of the tactics or some of the verbiage used but the basic aim makes perfect sense.
The current western European political class is a bunch of poodles in thrall to the US democrats and/or the UN (whoever the originator of the the mad policy ideas propagated by both happens to be). The most effective way Trump could solve this problem is to cut off the head which sits in the USA. Stomping on the toes (of someone else(!)) because this is easier to do won’t accomplish anything except applause from the people who’d applaud him no matter what he does. Moreover, Trump and his adherents don’t talk about the western European political class or even the EU but about Europe, which is a continent filled with people living here and neither a political class nor confederation of states. And this means me and you and everybody else living here. I’m – special German consideration – also not aware that Trump plans or supports either removing the clause of the UN charter which authorizes the USA, Britain, Russia or France to invade Germany whenever they seriously don’t like its domestic policies or lift the restrictions placed on Germany wrt to defending itself. He and they just like to whine about how a Germany politically prohibited from defending… Read more »
Starmer of course told parliament that China and Russia were against his give away, following which the Chinese congratulated Mauritius and started negotiations to buy an island. Trump seems to have been misinformed until now, perhaps thinking that the UK paying for a leaseback was going to secure the base.
As regards Chagos and Greenland, the UN has changed its tune and is backing the original native islanders. The court decision on the Chagossians is due but the judges could be government friendly.
In the case of Greenland the Danish government has agreed that they can opt for independence. A way out of this mess would be for a rapid grant of independence and the US to bung a massive amount of wonga to the 5k Inuits in return for defence and mining as a protectorate.
I hope the Chagossians get a hearing. They have been abominably treated in the past when they were booted off their islands to make way for military use of Diego Garcia, so ignoring them a second time and handing over their islands to an alien culture is a horrible act. They have a lot more in common with the Seychelles than Mauritius.
Goodness, what a show this all is. No Netflix series stands a change of competing.
Trump approved this shabby “deal” 9 months ago; now he thinks it stinks. He is right, of course. However, it suggests either that Trump hadn’t previously read his brief, or he has the attention span of a frog.
Given that the man-baby has thrown his toys out of the pram coz he didnt get the Nobel, I think that Congress should seriously question his sanity. He is a liability to sound international governance and management. US voters made a mistake.
Which gave us the Ukraine war…….
“US voters made a mistake”. What a buffoon, did you not see the alternative?