Trump Briefed on UK Island Base Giveaway, Starmer Warned Cancel Deal

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Posted on 01/23/2025 6:53:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to give away sovereign territory in the Indian Ocean which contains a strategically critical U.S. base is so “stupid” he must be on drugs to consider it, a Republican Senator says.

President Trump and the new U.S. Secretary of State (foreign affairs minister) Marco Rubio have been briefed on the Chagos Islands situation created by the British government, says U.S. Republican Senator from Louisiana John Kennedy — no relation to President John Kennedy — and that the dictates of the United Nations should be ignored.

Reminding others on the Senate floor (1hr 55m) of the importance of the British Indian Ocean Territory’s island of Diego Garcia, where a nominally Royal Air Force base is home to one of the most strategically important American bases outside of the U.S., the Senator said: “we use [Diego Garcia] to rearm and restock our submarines in the Indian Ocean to combat China. This kind of stupid takes a plan.”

Implying that Prime Minister Starmer must be on mind-altering substances to agree to the plan, Kennedy said — in comments highlighted by influential Westminster blog Guido Fawkes — that:

I’ve talked to President Trump about this, and I’ve talked to Marco Rubio about this, our esteemed new Secretary of State. And I’m hoping they are going to do something about it. The United Nations has no jurisdiction over the United Kingdom or us, America, and this is our military base… We need to stop this deal. President Trump and and Secretary Rubio need to pick up the phone and and call Prime Minister Starmer in the United Kingdom and say to to the Prime Minister: ‘Mr Prime Minister with all due respect stop dipping into your ketamine stash! Put down the bong.'

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