Posted on 02/27/2025 10:47:45 AM PST by RandFan
@benrileysmith
Breaking: Donald Trump tells @Telegraph in the Oval Office he is minded to sign off the Chagos Islands deal. Big win for Starmer.
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
what? can’t be.
He wants to give it to Mauritius
Trump has to sign off on it given it’s a US Base as well stationed there
The deal many think is stupid
very bad idea.
if true, i hope Hegseth pushes back on Trump about this. imho, it’s nuts to give up that base. that links us through the Indian ocean, if iirc. maybe there’s something i don’t know that Trump does. hope so.
Seems short sighted
And by giving Trump that they agree to put U.K. troops in Ukraine??
Wow why did Trump think of this. Instead of engaging in negotiations, he should of come to Freeper and asked the Always Whing choir what the best deal for the US would be
Starmer will have to lose on Ukraine for this.
LOL! +100
EISTT
Everyone Is Smarter Than Trump
Our B-2 and B-52 bombers always stop there on the way to the middle east.
Folks should keep their powder dry...
What Trump said about the deal...
“...doesn’t sound too bad...”
Yup, keep your powder dry.
Doubt it. Air to Air refueling.
But we maybe ouught to align with Trump’s thinking — which is that US does not need all these foreign commitments. Isolationism is a word that an attempt was made to stigmatize. But why? How is it more negative than the concept of minding one’s own business.
When you have $37T in debt, minding one’s own business rises to the level of ALL IMPORTANT. Not living in the past of $15T of debt.
Apparently Trump said he hasn’t been given all the details by the UK yet.
Sounds like hasn’t agreed to bugger all yet.
right.
The base will be kept on a 99 year lease as I understand the details
(Doubt it. Air to Air refueling.)
Not all true!
B2 Spirit Stealth Bombers deploy to Diego Garcia in support of Bomber Task Force
B-52s arrive in Diego Garcia for Bomber Task Force
SpaceForce, and new weaponry.
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