13-02-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Keir Starmer Is a Danger to the U.S.
London
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced in October that the U.K. would cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands are a British-administered archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia, the only inhabited island, is vital to American strategy in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. Diego Garcia's joint U.S.-U.K. air and naval base is centrally located among Indonesia, Somalia and Yemen, and it provides logistical support to forces operating in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Navy calls Diego Garcia the 'Footprint of Freedom.' Britain's Labour government is about to sell the ground from beneath its feet.
