President Trump calls UK's deal to give Chagos Islands to Mauritius 'total weakness'
20 January 2026
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US and Europe
This is being conducted in public, not in private, where most of the disagreements in the past have really been relegated, and here it is spilling over into these other realms. It is spiling over into the economic side with the tariff threats. It's spilling into the military and intelligence cooperation side with the conditionality of the US Commitment to NATO. This is unprecedented."

