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2018-07-17 India-Pakistan

How Diego Garcia Can Play a Pivotal Role in America's Relationship with India

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Posted by 3dc 2018-07-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 We are leasing the basing rights from the UK. Shouldn't we involve them first, old boy?

Posted by magpie 2018-07-17 00:15|| 2018-07-17 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 And India isn't fighting claims of the area. Mauritius is.

Do these idiot reporters even do a 30 second google search before spouting this idiocy?

No? #FakeNews

Posted by DarthVader 2018-07-17 00:19|| 2018-07-17 00:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Really?
What Indian Navy are they speaking of?

Posted by jvalentour 2018-07-17 00:43|| 2018-07-17 00:43|| Front Page Top

#4 I think "journalists" are too busy to do research on the stories they write.

It's "not even fake"...

/Feynman

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-07-17 05:34|| 2018-07-17 05:34|| Front Page Top

#5 What Indian navy? This one, I guess.

Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-07-17 09:01|| 2018-07-17 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Since the US and UK are on the far side of the world a base in Diego Garcia makes a lot of sense for our power projection into the area. Since India is already in the region this makes no sense to me.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-07-17 16:48|| 2018-07-17 16:48|| Front Page Top

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