Kennedy pleads to President Trump don't give away the Chagos Islands

Описание: Senator Kennedy passionately sets out the reasons for not gifting the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. In a plea to the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, he said "Please, pretty please with sugar on top, pick up the phone and call the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom don't sign that treaty, don't give away the Chagos Islands, don't give away our military base, don't do it."
Diego Garica was discovered by Portuguese explorers in the sixteenth century. Under the Treaty of Paris of 1814, the majority of the islands in the Indian Ocean then controlled by the French were transferred to Britain, which included Mauritius and the Chagos Islands. In 1965, going forward the islands became the British Indian Ocean Territory.
During the 19th Century, the islands were used as produced cocoa and coconut oils. The plantations on Diego Garcia were closed in 1971.
A decision to establish the U.S. Navy Support Facility based on the 1966 Exchange of Notes between Great Britain and the United States. In January 1971, U.S. Navy Seabees began building the U.S. military presence on Diego Garcia. Today Diego Garcia has 15 separate commands, including the U.S. Navy Support Facility as the host command.
Diego Garcia is surrounded by about 60 other islands, Its coast forms a deep natural harbor, an absolutely perfect position for a naval base.
It is now a secretive, strategically vital US military base. In times of war and global conflict the USA is able to project its military strength northwest into the Middle East and South Asia, east into Asia, or west into Africa.
A base for Air Force attacks in 1991 during the first Gulf War and a launchpad for long-range B52 bombers which embarked on missions to Afghanistan in 2001 attacked Taliban and Al Qaeda positions in the country's mountains. The base is also important as a refueling point for the US Navy and Air Force headed to the South China Sea.
The deep port is able to accommodate aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. Only US military personnel allowed access to Diego Garcia.
No journalist has visited.
The UN court ruled it was illegal for the British to demand possession of the islands as a condition of independence. In view of this ruling the UK leased Diego Garcia to the US. The United Nations has now served an eviction notice to the UK. The ruling is not enforceable, but it inflicts moral pressure and the future of the base creating a cloud of legal red tape.
Donald Trump has not publicly commented on the Chagos Islands deal. However, there are indications from his allies he might oppose the agreement.
Sources close to President Trump have intimated concerns about the deal potentially boosting China's influence in the region, and there are reports indicating Trump's team might challenge or veto the deal.
Deal or no deal that is the dilemma. Trump will decide, Sir Keir, I am afraid is a staunch lefty and a moral obligation to follow the UN ruling, sad but true.
Bring on a leader who has guts and conviction with an ism after his name because Sir Keir has no ism in him. He is a feather in the wind. Where he blows nobody knows even Morgan McSweeney the architect of Starmer's ambitions is unaware.
Diego Garcia is strategically of major importance not only for the US, but for the safety of the west and the wider democratic world.