Falcon29
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All egyptians want that but the coward in charge is afraid of the U.S.This is what needs to be done. Initiative needs to be taken. Region is already impoverished and destroyed. If Hezbollah were to get involved, how much can they sustain? Two weeks of fighting? Who will help Lebanon afterwards ? If there would to be military intervention, there needs to be consensus in region.
This is your first time reading up on Diego Garcia, isn't it? Quick google search, click the first wiki link and pretend to know all about it.It is a bit much calling it a 'nation'. Reality is, it was an agricultural plantation to process dried coconuts. It was a private property of a business and later ceded to U.K. by a money transaction.
In 1966, the population of the island was 924.These people were employed as contract farm workers primarily on copra plantations owned by the Chagos-Agalega company. Although local plantation managers commonly allowed pensioners and the disabled to remain in the islands and continue to receive housing and rations in exchange for light work, children after the age of 12 were required to work. In 1964, only 3 of a population of 963 were unemployed. In April 1967, the BIOT Administration bought out Chagos-Agalega for £600,000, thus becoming the sole property owner in the BIOT. The Crown immediately leased back the properties to Chagos-Agalega but the company terminated the lease at the end of 1967.
Human Rights WatchBefore the British forcibly evicted their inhabitants, they were home to approximately 1,500 Chagossians, an Indigenous people. Today, there are no Chagossians living on the islands.
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The UK then decided to evict the entire population of the Chagos islands to avoid having to report to the United Nations about its continued rule over a colony with a permanent population. Their treatment, Human Rights Watch finds, amounts to crimes against humanity.
Human Rights WatchThe Indian Ocean islands were part of Mauritius, then a UK colony.
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The UK government split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius, creating a new colony in Africa, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). So that it would not have to report to the United Nations about its continued colonial rule, the UK falsely declared that Chagos had no permanent population.
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The Chagossians are predominately descendants of enslaved people, forcibly brought from the African continent and Madagascar to the then-uninhabited Chagos islands where they worked on coconut plantations under French and British rule. Over the centuries they became a distinct people with their own Chagossian Creole language, music, and culture.
But the UK and US governments treated them as a people without rights, who they could permanently displace from their homeland without consultation or compensation..
The quoted part in this video, while talking about a ground invasion of Gaza, has former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson bringing up Pakistan's nukes as an offer to Turkey!!! After Scott Ritter, Col. McGregor, this is the 3rd fairly well informed American associated with security matters who has brought up Pakistan's nukes!
The video also has another CIA Analyst Ray McGovern; I have not seen anyone more informed about the Beltway Politics and the Military Industrial Complex as Ray is!!
Yeah, Pakistani nukes are a 'placeholder' for a true all out war in the middle east. If Pakistan did not have nuke, then there would be no Muslim nation with nukes. If that was the case, do you not think that Israel would go haywire and not be more boldened? Only other Muslim state to stand in their way is Iran. Netanyahu did mention Iran and Pakistani nukes as his greatest threats for a reason.
I think Pakistan should transfer some nukes to Turkey. The chances of a strategic rift between Pakistan and Turkey are like between Canada and America: Almost zero. But Pakistan and Turkey are not even neighbors, in case of an unlikely rift.
How the hell the UK and France got into the UNSC as Permanent Members and got nukes when their very existence was assured by the Americans and the Soviets?? Similarly, Pakistan too, within its limited capacity, do what it can to 'diversify' its resources via allies.