@CoKeynesian As with house building, a certain strain of British politico thinks that prices are set from on high by a wicked (businesses) or benevolent (themselves) deities and that concepts like "supply and demand" are fictions.
@JEyal_RUSI Should the deal go ahead what's to stop Mauritius denouncing it in the future and declaring the occupation of Chagos as an illegal occupation? Surely the alleged illegality would be more black-and-white in that scenario than the status quo.
@FaringForwards Lmao. If ceding sovereign territory and paying billions of pounds to other countries is "winning the great game" what on earth would "losing" look like?
@echetus Weimar Republic officials kicking themselves for not working out they could claim that the Versailles Treaty was actually Germany winning the "Great Game" for central Europe.
@FennellJW@tdubey@DAL10203040 James for your own benefit when an Indian scammer rings you up and says you'll gain tremendously from giving them loads of money you actually won't.
The Polish corridor was not predominantly ethnically German. Only the Free City of Danzig was, and it had special political arrangements recognizing its character.