US President Donald Trump has criticized the actions of the British government because of plans to transfer the island of Diego Garcia, where the US military base is located, to Mauritius. He called it a sign of weakness and said that Moscow and other countries had already noticed it. Beijing.
"It's shocking, but our 'brilliant' NATO ally, the United Kingdom, is going to give Diego Garcia Island - the site of a vital US military base — to Mauritius for no reason," Trump wrote.
He added that the transfer of "extremely important land" is "an act of the greatest stupidity" and used this episode as an argument in favor of the need to acquire Greenland.
"This is another one of a long chain of reasons in the field of national security why Greenland should be acquired. Denmark and its European allies must do the right thing," Trump said.
Help. Diego Garcia is an island-atoll of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean with an area of 27 square kilometers. km. The archipelago belonged first to France, and later to Great Britain. The first inhabitants were the French, who founded a settlement on Diego Garcia in 1785. Since 1810, the British have settled on the island. In the 19th century, the French and then the British established coconut plantations there, where slaves were imported from Africa to work.
In 1965, the state of Mauritius transferred the entire Chagos Archipelago to British control for 3 million pounds. In 1966, London leased Diego Garcia Island for 50 years to the United States, which in 1973 established a military base there capable of hosting a large number of warships and an airfield for servicing the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
The entire local population from 1966 to 1973 was forcibly evicted to Mauritius and Seychelles. But in 2019, the UN International Court of Justice ordered Britain to return the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, which had become a parliamentary republic by that time. Under the agreement of May 22, 2025, Britain will lease the island of Diego Garcia for a period of 99 years and will pay Mauritius 101 million pounds a year.
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