🇮🇴 While the British government continues to negotiate with that of Mauritius to persuade the latter to take the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean off its hands and to be good enough to receive £9 to £18 billion courtesy of the British taxpayer for the trouble of doing so, the somewhat unpredictable President of the United States, Trump, has indicated that he will cut through all this talking and annex the British Indian Ocean Territory to the USA and rename it the US Indian Ocean Territory and then no-one need bother about it any more.
This will enable the USA to ensure the security of the huge and strategically important US military base on Diego Garcia and make sure that the People’s Republic of China, to which Mauritius is a supplicant state, does not get its hands on the island. Trump also revealed that he intends to not only preserve the security of the military base on the island, but also establish a space vehicle launch facility on Diego Garcia as suggested by one of his political allies, Elon Musk.This was presaged, strangely, by a BIOT stamp issue of 2009 which depicted the launch of Apollo 11 and other stamps depicting American spacecraft and a miniature sheet with an American flag planted on the moon just as Trump now intends to plant a Stars and Stripes on the BIOT.
We can only speculate at the moment as to whether Trump’s planned annexation of BIOT will result in a ‘new country’ - the USIOT - finding its way into the stamp catalogues but it may well be that this newly named territory will indeed have its own stamps when a new postal service is established there.
Trump has also stated that he may well annex the Falkland Islands to prevent Britain and Argentina from ever feeling the need to go to war with each other again and to make it easier for Americans to go on holiday in the Caribbean he will probably take over Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Turks and Caicos Islands and Montserrat. The British government is said to be having talks with Trump’s officials on how these transfers of sovereignty can be completed smoothly. No consultation with local populations is felt necessary as Trump feels everyone who lives on these islands will be much better off under American sovereignty.
Reported - 1 April 2025.
If this is not an April fool's joke,
ReplyDeleteit's scary.
I wonder what Trump intends to rename the Indian Ocean (following his demented Gulf of America stunt)?
ReplyDeleteAnd, surely an actual April Fool 'gag', is he so unaware in his wish to rename the US capital to Trumpton?
Very good April Fools. One almost can’t discern these things from the truth anymore in these dystopian times.
ReplyDeleteYou had me believing Trump making another grab for territory lol. Then the claims to caribbean Islands had my suspicions awakened ! Nice April fools post , thanks lol.
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WK replying. Thank you all for this 1 April comments. The problem is, it could all yet come true! However the British government says that it is now finalising the deal with Mauritius with Trump’s approval so it looks increasingly likely that BIOT will soon become another ‘Lost country’ in the stamp catalogues & albums.
ReplyDeleteGreat work WK.
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