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Breaking: "BIG WIN FOR STARMER" over Diego Garcia (Chagos Islands deal)
X ^ | 27 Feb | @benrileysmith

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.

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To: RandFan

The base will be kept on a 99 year lease as I understand the details.

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Would not surprise me. That would be a reasonable deal.

Me thinking the same will happen with Greenland. We already have Thule (renamed to something else), some seaports would be good and we don’t have to buy the place. They would like the extra money too.

Trump likes to play the media. Fun to watch. Kinda like tabletop magic tricks.


21 posted on 02/27/2025 11:21:36 AM PST by dagunk (-- Unknown)
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To: dagunk

> The base will be kept on a 99 year lease as I understand the details.

Our very own Hong Kong.


22 posted on 02/27/2025 11:29:23 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Owen

Yeah without the forward deployed base in US hands, the Chinese will take it over like they did Kandahar. This puts the Chinese in a very good military position as they island hop toward Hawaii.


23 posted on 02/27/2025 11:45:13 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: RandFan

They should check if Jeffery Epstein is living on the beach there. What better place to disappear to?


24 posted on 02/27/2025 11:47:03 AM PST by CtBigPat
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To: RandFan

SOOOOOOOOOOo—WHO GETS TO TAKE OVER THAT BASE???


25 posted on 02/27/2025 12:24:53 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: RandFan

Big win for CHINA. Would be more boneheaded than Trump pressuring Romania to release the Tate scumbags. Hope this isn’t true. If it is, is is the 3rd bad news event of a very bad day in MAGA Land.


26 posted on 02/27/2025 12:50:48 PM PST by montag813
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To: RandFan

Hmmm...
I’d wait until Trump has ALL the details in hand and then assess what he decides then...


27 posted on 02/27/2025 1:21:41 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: ridesthemiles

Its staying a US base for a hundred years.

Apparently.


28 posted on 02/27/2025 1:33:36 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Not good


29 posted on 02/27/2025 1:42:15 PM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Wallace T.
Wonder how many noticed the dig at Starmer.....

"Could you deal with Russia on your own?" LOL!

30 posted on 02/27/2025 1:45:20 PM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: RandFan
IIRC when this was first mentioned, part of the deal was leasing back the military base.

What happened?

31 posted on 02/27/2025 1:46:30 PM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Churchillspirit

99 year lease


32 posted on 02/27/2025 1:52:55 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

So why the fuss?


33 posted on 02/27/2025 2:09:20 PM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: RandFan
Will this base even be needed in 99 years?

I suspect warfare will be conducted very differently in the 22nd century.

"The DoD tactical computer has designated your ZIP code as eliminated.

"You have 24 hours to report to your mandatory disintegration chamber."

-PJ

34 posted on 02/27/2025 2:31:39 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

There was a programme on TV here saying drones have already changed the battlefield or what it resembles now forever. They followed a mercenary in Ukraine who when moved got picked up by drone and his position was mortared. He had a lucky escape!


35 posted on 02/27/2025 2:36:14 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan; All
Dumb move…

Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia is a US military base in the British Indian Ocean Territory. It's located on Diego Garcia, a coral atoll in the Chagos Archipelago. The base is a key US military installation that supports operations in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf

36 posted on 02/27/2025 4:01:12 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Yup. I think we’re F’ed.


37 posted on 02/27/2025 4:02:27 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: RandFan

Why?


38 posted on 02/27/2025 4:03:01 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: glorgau

> The base will be kept on a 99 year lease as I understand the details.

Our very own Hong Kong.

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And the Chinese kept their promise..../do I need to??


39 posted on 02/27/2025 4:23:10 PM PST by dagunk (-- Unknown)
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To: mewzilla

Lol. Passions burn bright ‘round here. Want a saspirilla?


40 posted on 02/27/2025 4:28:24 PM PST by Kudsman (We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves. )
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