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Mr. Sparkle

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Tue Jan 20, 2026, 08:31 AM Yesterday

'Fight fire with fire,' says James O'Brien



Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Sir Keir Starmer over the UK's plans to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

James O'Brien says 'you can't reason with the unreasonable'.

The US President took to his Truth Social platform to trash the plans as an act of "great stupidity", despite previously being in support of the action.

Under the terms of the deal, the UK will give up control of the Chagos archipelago while paying to maintain control of a joint US-UK military base on the largest island, Diego Garcia, under a 99-year lease.

Mr Trump wrote on Tuesday morning: "Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER."

He claimed that China and Russia would be this as an "act of total weakness", and used the action to justify why the US should take over control of Greenland.
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