Cleo Pascal

And it was President Trump's true social message was extremely welcome, because there are two things in this treaty that are going to blow it up.

One is the minute it's signed,

the U.S.

is likely to be in contravention of international law because Mauritius has signed on to this Pan-African Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, the Pellendaba Treaty, which means that all of Mauritian soil cannot have nuclear weapons on it.

And the U.S.

is, and we saw this with what happened in New Zealand a few decades ago, the U.S.

's policy is not to say whether or not there are nuclear weapons there.

which will, because they're not saying there aren't, going to immediately set it up for legal problems.

And then this treaty, where the UK will lease the land for the base for 99 years, becomes terminated if the UK misses one payment.

So I think that it's very likely over the next 99 years, some government in the UK is going to not pay their bills, and then the US really is in legal jeopardy.

So

In this treaty, there are these traps that are set to betray the U.S.

and make it difficult to operate, and in a cognitive and narrative warfare context, to make the U.S.

even more isolated.

We're talking about Diego Garcia because that's the one that the British are trying to set the trap in now.

But when we talk about Europe, and especially in the context of the...

national security strategy where they say Europe might not be what we think it is in 20 or 30 years, Europe isn't geographically contained to the continent of Europe.

There are pieces of Europe, as we see the UK is in the Indian Ocean, France is in the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific.

And I think, for example, the French are looking for a way to get out of New Caledonia.

So when we're looking at our strategic geography, and especially these very critical islands, we need to take into account what is happening in those European capitals and how they're reacting towards the U.S.