Trump weighs buying another territory after Greenland fiasco: report (www.independent.co.uk)

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly presented Trump with option to buy islands housing Diego Garcia base

The White House is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. make a deal to purchase the Chagos Islands after Donald Trump’s ambitions of seeing the U.S. take control of Greenland ended in failure.

The president has repeatedly threatened to seize or annex several nations and territories, including Canada and Venezuela, which he has potentially claimed as 51st states. He has also delivered similar threats to Panama and Cuba, with U.S. naval vessels building up forces throughout the Caribbean and launching a campaign of military strikes against small boats that the president claims are trafficking drugs.

His latest alleged plan follows delays in U.K. legislation that would complete the country’s cessation of the territory to the east African nation Mauritius after withdrawal of U.S. support in January. Trump called the treaty organizing the cessation of territory “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY” at the time.

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[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 points 1 hour ago

Really I feel this is mostly about the UK avoiding all the issues its has with what it did to the Chagossians, and the expenses of dealing with islands that will be massively impacted by climate change.

To analogize, the UK stole someone else’s car and has had it for a while. But now the original car owner is trying to get it back, the engine is failing, and the practical choice is to offload it to someone else for a quick buck before shit hits the fan

[-] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 9 points 7 hours ago

Somebody needs to tell him that buying a new island won't bring back the pedo island he loved so much.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 51 points 11 hours ago

Tell him Puerto Rico is for sale, nobody tell him it's already part of the US, and then use the money from the "sale" to fix the electrical grid

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago

Ah yes, it's a great time to buy.

We're just shy of 40 trillion dollars in debt.

[-] zwerg@feddit.org 4 points 9 hours ago

Not just that, but buy a tiny group of islands that sink below the see in the next 50 years. Whatever military value they have now won't last long.

[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Stop reporting on this bozo as if he's got some grand calculated geopolitical chess strategy. Money, power, and grift. That's it

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

The UK stole those islands from the Chagossians. The UK doesn't have the right to sell them to the US or anyone else to begin with!

[-] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I'm so glad I can finance a demented megalomaniac's insatiable need for self-gratification with the portion of my mortal life I've exchanged for these tax dollars.

Thanks especially to Scott Bessent and the other sycophants who are coldly calculating and agreeing to exchange my life for their power.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 18 points 13 hours ago

Should be clear at this point that the goal is world domination. A self-aggrandizing statue in every land. Just like the Nazis.

[-] santa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 12 hours ago

Convince him to purchase Atlantis.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

And then go visit.

[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

I bet he wants land so he can rename it "Trumpland" or something equal stupid. He already took a half measure and renamed the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America". Now that he has "proved" he can do it he'll do it again.

And I know he didn't prove anything, but he's a moron.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I think he wants a new Guantanamo

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

More like 'little saint Dons'

[-] Infinite@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I think it's that he wants to force the flag to 51 stars so it gets redesigned and linked to his name.

He won't do anything to help POC, though, so Puerto Rico is SOL.

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

Trumps still showing interest in islands hey............

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 13 hours ago

The Telegraph reports that a plan to buy the territory, placing it directly under U.S. control, is among the options being presented to Trump as he makes a decision on further steps for the Chagos Islands, which consist of dozens of islands in the Indian Ocean.

The president’s foreign policy has bent sharply towards territorial acquisitions since he returned to the White House, and the U.S. is now in discussions with Cuba’s government over multiple issues including the decades-long U.S. trade embargo of the island.

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