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The President of the United States Donald Trump is now very unhappy with England to hand over the sovereignty of the strategic Chagos Island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius.

Chagos archipelago has the famous US military air base located at Diego Garcia Island right in the middle of Indian Ocean.

Diego Garcia airbase has one of the largest airstrip in the region and is frequently used to deploy B-52 bombers by America.

Trump in a social media message accused UK of “great stupidity” for a deal to hand the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius.

Trump, who previously endorsed the deal, has now made a major U-turn.

The agreement will see Britain hand back the archipelago to its former colony and pay to lease a key US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.

Britain kept control of the Chagos Islands after Mauritius gained independence in the 1960s.

In 2019, the International Court of Justice recommended that Britain hand the archipelago to Mauritius after decades of legal battles.

“The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

Linking this issue to Russia and China again, Trump claimed that both the countries have witnessed United Kingdom’s “weakness.”

“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. There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.