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0 pointsItCouldBeWorse1y ago0 comments

Its more a sort of shakedown of a ex-colonial power

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Yeul1y ago

The UK was shaking down the US for this military base.

The whole thing stands as a monument to the decline of the British Empire.

As someone pointed out on Reddit, for the first time in centuries the United Kingdom will no longer be the empire on which the sun never sets.

There will still be a British presence there (an overseas military base if I recall correctly), so you could argue it doesn't, but yep.

Randall got it wrong in What If (https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/). The sun's going to set on it because of the Indian Ocean territory going.

More like reparations

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