Dr Pippa Malmgren

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The islands in the South China Sea, the islands of the Pacific.

Understand the other main American foothold is Guam.

And now this little island underneath it, Tinian, that they're upgrading to be even more important than Guam.

The Chinese have been moving into places like the Solomon Islands.

So these are all like physical footholds for geopolitical purposes, for strategic security purposes.

So when the previous administration in the US was in office, they didn't seem to express a view about Diego Garcia, which is the Chagos Islands.

And therefore that process in Britain just progressed.

When Trump arrived, he went, no, wait a minute.

That's a really important national security interest in the same way that Greenland is.

And you can't just give that away and have no protections for the national security interests that the United States has.

And that's what's reopened this whole discussion.

And I mean, it's clear the relationship between

President Trump and his counterparts in Britain, in France and in Germany.

These are not conversations that have been going swimmingly.

Right.

These are these are very tough conversations.

The conversation that's gone very well has been with Italy.

And notice that Italy has been at the forefront of saying Germany.

Georgia Maloney has been at the forefront of saying, let's figure out how to do a peace deal.

Let's figure out how we're all allies and,

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