Posted on 02/07/2023 5:10:21 AM PST by FarCenter
Molon Labe moment???
Sure. Let them protect it against China.
Morons.
Historically the British governed it. I guess when they abandoned their “kingdom” and “empire” they gave it to them. I bet someone in their government would miss any lease payments if we popped smoke and said “you can have your atoll back now.”
China is huffing and puffing... SCREW THEM
Oooooh! The "International Court of Justice!!!"
Time to BE SCARED!!!.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Mauritius
Mauritius ethnic groups:
Approximately two-thirds of the population is of Indo-Pakistani origin, most of whom are descendants of indentured labourers brought to work in the sugar industry during the 19th and early 20th centuries. About one-fourth of the population is Creole (of mixed French and African descent), and there are small numbers of people of Chinese and Franco-Mauritian descent.
ONLY BLACK US MILITARY PERSONNEL ALLOWED!
effing idiots.
Um...it’s closer to India
The Militant Socialist Movement is currently in power in Mauritius, what could go wrong?
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“Molon Labe moment???”
This is one of those things where America’s enemies get to attack the US on its high moral stance by pointing out, hey, look here where you’re not following your own morals. Let’s suppose the US gave the Island to the descendants of the natives who got moved off. There would be no income for them and very quickly someone like China would take it over. If you “game” all the possibilities out to, say, twenty years, all outcomes would be worse for the larger world than America just holding on to the situation as it exists. That Island is the key to maintaining peace on a quarter of the globe. Well worth some moral ambiguity.
BTW, I’m sure these are the same people who want to give reparation payments to black people from people who never owned slaves and to people who were never slaves. One of my final conversations with a black guy I “liked” included him saying “your people” did ‘thus and such.’” I said, “You mean my father and his family who immigrated from Sweden? Or, perhaps my mother’s family, who fought in the Union army and ran a station on the underground railroad?” He said, “They were all white.” (I think that might have been the final time we spoke.)
See the Solomon Islands . . . just a suggestion.
I would think that as strategic as it may be, when there is little to no immediate adversary to fend of, that in a war time situation it is likely very vulnerable, with no other immediate assets near to it. My guess is if it is so strategic, because we have made it that way, it would be a very early target of a determined adversary. Too bad we and India have had such lousy relations over the decades that we cannot just have a base in southern India.
Mauritius seeks money
If I was living in a territory under British rule, and was given the choice to remain under British rule or be ruled by any nation in Africa, I’d vote to remain under British rule every single time.
May not be perfect, but compared to the inept and corrupt governments across that continent, it’s a no brainer
This is an essential staging point and “jumping off” point for forward-deployed U.S. marines. They are continually present there in their hundreds, probably sometimes thousands, ready to be dropped into new hotspots in Asia and Africa. It’s a fearful “tip of the sword” role they play, which, if a transfer of power away from the U.K. were to take place, would probably have to be moved elsewhere.
Belongs to China
Mauritians Chinese cutouts
Screw it, let africa have africa lol. China has been taking it over with no resistance. Either resist it or leave.
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