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This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

It's a pleasure to welcome Cliff May, the president and founder of the Foundation for the Defense of democracies, to take us into the Indian Ocean, the Chego Saugapalico.

It is part of, once upon a time, the British Empire. It is part of the British

possessions until momentarily, the new Prime Minister of Great Britain Sir Kirstarmer leading an overwhelming

labor majority meaning he's unchallengeable for at least five years.

As in his wisdom decided to hand the Chegos Archipelago, which

includes a very useful airfield when you're dealing with the aggressors in Eurasia, he's decided to hand that to, drum roll, the

Mauritius Islands, about more than a thousand miles away. Why the Mauritius islands? Well that

remains a mystery but once upon a time when Britain accepted the Chegos and

Mauritius burden as part of its empire, a product of

defeating Napoleon 200 years ago. They were administered from Mauritius and that was the only link that ever existed between two entirely

different traditions, two entirely different histories.

However, Cliff May's column points up to the much larger story of,

what about colonies? What about the apology? What about turning a story that we can't finish today?

Cliff, your story about the Chegos Island begins a story that we can't finish today.

However, you see it it you see the vulnerability of these

people does Washington see it cliff good evening to you. Good evening to you

I can tell you for sure that Washington does not.

There was some people like Nigel Farage said, oh, the Americans are going to be

upset with this, but the Biden administration said,

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