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Re:UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius by ItCouldBeWorse on Friday October 04, 2024 @05:35AM (#41739573)
Its more a sort of shakedown of a ex-colonial power
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Re:UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius by Yeul on Friday October 04, 2024 @07:46AM (#41740385)
The UK was shaking down the US for this military base.

The whole thing stands as a monument to the decline of the British Empire.

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Re:UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius by N19PEDL2 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @04:07PM (#41752521)
As someone pointed out on Reddit, for the first time in centuries the United Kingdom will no longer be the empire on which the sun never sets.
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Re:UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius by Yawrehto on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:15PM (#41759428)
There will still be a British presence there (an overseas military base if I recall correctly), so you could argue it doesn't, but yep.

Randall got it wrong in What If (https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/). The sun's going to set on it because of the Indian Ocean territory going.

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Re:UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius by practice9 on Friday October 04, 2024 @06:04AM (#41739800)
More like reparations
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