‘Act of Great Stupidity’: President Trump Torpedoes Starmer Giving Away Land Under Strategic U.S. Military Base

U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hand in the ongoing Chagos Islands saga, calling Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s determination to give away the land beneath a vital joint UK-U.S. base in the Indian Ocean a weak and shocking act of stupidity.

The British government of Sir Keir Starmer giving the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), the formal name for the Chagos Archipelago which includes the island of Diego Garcia where the UK and U.S. share a major air, naval, and intelligence base critical to power projection in the Asia-Pacific region, is an act of stupidity, the U.S. President has said. Under the terms of the deal the UK government would hand the islands to Mauritius, itself a security concern given the country’s deepening ties