Cleo Pascal

And the UK said no, initially at least, and along with the bases on land.

Now,

The UK has been trying to offload the base onto Mauritius, which is very close to China, and the whole thing just reeks.

And the sort of one potential positive outcome of the Iran thing is it's called detention.

to the weakness of the European partners, and also specifically to what may be about to happen to this base.

The legislation to sign the agreement with Mauritius is stuck in the British Parliament, and unless it's ratified by the end of the month, it may time out, which would be a good thing.

But again, it's another area where attention needs to be paid, very close attention.

that the UK, especially this Keir Starmer government, which has very unusual connections to China, doesn't try to slip it through.

But it raises this larger question because this isn't the only base.

The UK also

an Iranian drone struck a UK base in Cyprus and the UK wasn't in a position to defend it.

And reportedly there's US NSA capabilities there as well.

So I think that not just the NATO question, but the whole partnership with Five Eyes, various Five Eyes countries is going to have to be reassessed so that you don't have these, you don't have London or Paris or others

putting a chokehold on U.S.

decision-making at critical times of conflict.

Sure.

I'm on X, just my name, Cleo Pascal, C-L-E-O-P-A-S-K-A-L, and on Getter at Real Cleo, because there's apparently an unreal Cleo there who's got my name.

I wish they would post interesting things at least.

Thank you very much.

So there's been reporting in the Times, the UK Times,