British prime minister Keir Starmer seems to be a communist.

Not a card-carrying one, merely a shitty socialist politician who will do whatever the communists want.  I don't see a lot of distinction between those two.

Case in point: Since 1971 the U.S. has operated an airfield on the island of Diego Garcia--part of the Chagos Archipelago--under a 50-year agreement with the U.K.

That archipelago is 1,200 miles from the nation of Mauritius, and the U.K.considered it part of Mauritius "for administrative purposes".  When Mauritius ceased to be a British colony the U.K  separated the two.  

Last Thursday U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer returned control of the archipelago--and thus of the strategic Diego Garcia airbase--to the communist government of Mauritius, despite the objections of the Chagossians.  And even more astonishing, instead of Starmer's moronic government negotiating a deal to give everything BUT the island containing the base to Mauritius, Starmer agreed to pay Mauritius $135 million per year to lease the base from its new owners for 99 years.

Sounds like a deal Jimmy Carter or Barky Obozo or bribem would have made, eh?

Since the archipelago had never been owned by Mauritius, two Chagossian women challenged the giveaway in a U.K. court, arguing Chagossians were excluded from decision-making about their ancestral homeland.  But as we all know, leftist judges do whatever their masters order, and the court denied their claim.

Now: China obviously wants to force the U.S. off the island, and pressured its lackeys in Mauritius to demand that the U.K. give them control of the entire archipelago.

The deal has sparked protests from Chagossians and raised concerns over Mauritius’ ties to China. Despite the lease agreement for the Diego Garcia base, the base could be rendered useless if Mauritius were to allow the Chinese to build an airfield on a neighboring island in the archipelago.

Reform Party leader Nigel Farage demanded, “Why is Starmer so desperate to give away the islands? There is no legal need, it will cost us approximately £52 billion, and play into the hands of China. Why?”

But too late now, eh?  "Fait accompli."

The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) and General Assembly had ruled that Britain "should" transfer Chagos to Mauritius, but those were non-binding decisions.  Nevertheless, communist Starmer used them to justify the surrender--plus paying Mauritius $135 million per year for the next 99 years for the privilege of leasing back the archipelago he'd just given away..

There's a pattern here that's well worth studying:  In exchange for the U.S. building the astonishingly costly Panama Canal,, plus a cash payment, the U.S. purchased the "Panama Canal zone" from that country “in perpetuity.”

Turns out modern U.S. Democrats didn't define "perpetuity" the same way as U.S. leaders did when we built the canal, and in 1979 leftist Dem prezzy Jimmy Carter ordered the U.S. to simply give the canal and the zone back to Panama .

With the canal under control of Panama's government, the Chinese communist party wasted no time in offering that government lots of cash to buy control of the canal.

So start the clock, folks.  I predict the Chinese will first pressure their party members in the Mauritian government to end the lease early--after collecting over a billion dollars from the U.K and U.S.  And there won't be a thing the U.S. can do about it.

Any bets? 

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