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There isn’t one, as you say it’s over 2000km between them, the only link is that when Britain was administrating them it did so as a single territory. This is n
by rndmio 2y ago
There isn’t one, as you say it’s over 2000km between them, the only link is that when Britain was administrating them it did so as a single territory. This is not some reunification of a country separated by a colonial power.
- ItCouldBeWorse 2y agoIts more a sort of shakedown of a ex-colonial power
- practice9 2y agoMore like reparations
- Yeul 2y agoThe UK was shaking down the US for this military base. The whole thing stands as a monument to the decline of the British Empire.
- N19PEDL2 2y agoAs 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.
- Yawrehto 2y agoThere 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/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/). The sun's going to set on it because of the Indian Ocean territory going.