Comment by rndmio
7 months 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.
Its more a sort of shakedown of a ex-colonial power
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.
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More like reparations