Subject: Re: Diego Garcia
t's very easy for Rubio to tell the UK that we'd prefer that they keep their todger stuck in the meat grinder indefinitely, because it's not our todger getting mangled. But the UK is quite reasonably trying to minimize the damage they're suffering. "UK First," after all!

Not our problem. Also very easy calculus for the Brits. Give the island away now, and you might as well be handing it over to the Chinese at some point in the future.

That island is THE place to have if you care at all about the Persian Gulf.