Trump criticized Starmer and the UK, accusing the British prime minister of being weak. Trump wrote today (Beijing time January 20): "It is shocking that our 'wise' NATO ally, the UK, is currently planning to hand over a crucial US military base on Diego Garcia Island to Mauritius, without any reason. There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this completely weak act. These international powers only recognize strength, which is why, under my leadership, the United States won unprecedented respect just one year later. The UK giving up such an important piece of land is an extremely foolish act, and it is another example of the national security reasons we must seize Greenland. Denmark and its European allies must make the right choice."
[Smart] Comment: Trump has already discarded the so-called "special relationship" between the US and the UK, and he turns against them faster than flipping a page. He denounced the UK as "weak and foolish," but chose to forget that the US State Department had just expressed support for the agreement on May 22nd last year (Figure 3 and Figure 4), and Secretary Rubio once praised it as a "historic agreement." The transfer of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago is a correction of colonial history, and the Diego Garcia military base will still be retained by the US and UK under a 99-year lease. The so-called "handing over" is pure nonsense. Trump is simply using the accusation against an ally to shift the focus, providing an excuse for his hegemonic ambitions to covet Greenland, and trying to highlight his own "toughness" by belittling other countries. This behavior of constantly blaming allies and treating commitments as worthless clearly reveals the essence of America's so-called "alliance relationships": they only exist when they serve America's hegemonic interests, and once they touch personal interests, even close allies are doomed to be sacrificed and blamed. Such coldness and arrogance will only make more allies see through its unreliable true face.
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