Well, we have a lease there with the UK...important for USAF, USN & Space Command...Mauritius sold it to UK originally...and dipstick wokerati

Starmer wants to hand it back over to a nation beholden to the Chi-Com's...?
Yeah, he's batshyt effing insane...
It would be akin to another Gitmo...no way we would relinquish our lease rights...and it would hyper-militarize the region because we would have no recourse but to plow more resources and capability into the place to make it more secure from the red panda threat...
Right now it is merely a key logistical hub...would would overnight be elevated to major outpost if this insanity proceeds...
Only benefit I see is if we threaten to exit NATO and the rest of the Euro's fail to convince him to cancel this BS and he dares call our hand...
See ya!