{"id":105182,"date":"2026-06-11T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/105182\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:52:09","slug":"trump-weighs-buying-another-territory-after-greenland-fiasco-report-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/105182\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump weighs buying another territory after Greenland fiasco: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. make a deal to purchase the Chagos Islands<\/a> after President Donald Trump\u2019s ambitions of seeing the U.S. take control of Greenland ended in failure.<\/p>\n

The president has repeatedly threatened to seize or annex several nations and territories, including Canada and Venezuela, which he has potentially claimed as 51st states<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has also delivered similar threats to Panama and Cuba, with U.S. naval vessels building up forces throughout the Caribbean and launching a campaign of military strikes<\/a> against small boats that the president claims are trafficking drugs.<\/p>\n

His latest alleged plan follows delays in U.K. legislation<\/a> that would complete the country\u2019s cessation of the territory to the east African nation Mauritius after the withdrawal of U.S. support in January. Trump called the treaty organizing the cessation of territory \u201can act of GREAT STUPIDITY\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph reports that a plan to buy the territory, placing it directly under U.S. control, is among the options being presented to Trump as he decides on further steps regarding the Chagos Islands<\/a>, which consist of dozens of islands in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s foreign policy has bent sharply towards territorial acquisitions since he returned to the White House, and the U.S. is now in discussions with Cuba\u2019s government over multiple issues, including the decades-long U.S. trade embargo of the island.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. take full control of the Chagos Islands (Getty)<\/p>\n

Multiple sources familiar with the matter told The Telegraph that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directly raised the idea with the president, though it was reportedly not Trump\u2019s \u201cleading\u201d option at this time.<\/p>\n

The White House did not comment on The Telegraph\u2019s reporting when contacted by The Independent.<\/p>\n

However, a U.S. official told The Independent that the Trump administration maintains that it would be a mistake for the U.K. to \u201cgive away the British Indian Ocean Territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDiego Garcia\u2019s strategic location in the Indian Ocean makes it a vital and indispensable military installation of significant importance to the national security of the United States,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe remain in regular discussions with our British allies as we work together to preserve the viability of Diego Garcia as a regional security platform,\u201d the person added.<\/p>\n

\"Vice<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance visited the U.S. base in Greenland in March, during which he discussed beefing up the territory\u2019s security (Getty)<\/p>\n

The alleged plans follow a U.S. military invasion in Venezuela to capture ousted leader Nicolas Maduro in January<\/a>, and the president has openly threatened to expand that campaign to other countries that oppose the U.S.<\/p>\n

After Maduro\u2019s arrest, Trump gave remarks naming what he called the \u201cDonroe\u201d Doctrine \u2014 a perversion of the Monroe Doctrine, which defined the Monroe administration\u2019s policy of countering European influence in Central and South America while expanding U.S. territorial conquests.<\/p>\n

The war with Iran was also supposed to follow a similar blueprint, but the conflict has now stretched on for months past Trump\u2019s initial predictions. A shaky ceasefire continues to hold, but the U.S has so far been unable to ink a deal with Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war.<\/a><\/p>\n

The president also initiated a months-long effort to spur interest in acquiring the territory of Greenland from Denmark last year, even dispatching Vice President JD Vance to the Arctic land to drum up support. Trump repeatedly claimed that U.S. military interests required its acquisition, but those interests have since faded into the background.<\/p>\n

Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer have clashed over what the U.S. president views as Europe and NATO\u2019s insufficient support for his war with Iran. Trump\u2019s attempt to purchase or seize control of Greenland escalated tensions between the president and European leaders, including Starmer, as a mountain of resistance from other NATO countries eventually led the president to back down.<\/p>\n

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An aerial view of the Chagos Islands, including the Diego Garcia base (U.S. Navy)<\/p>\n

Like Greenland, the Chagos Islands are viewed as a strategic military asset due to U.S. military bases on the islands.<\/p>\n

The U.K. has controlled the Chagos Islands since 1814. A joint U.S.-U.K. military base,<\/a> Diego Garcia, is present on the islands and under Starmer\u2019s plan would remain under joint control of the two nations.<\/p>\n

The Diego Garcia base sits in a highly strategic spot, allowing missions to take place in southeast Asia where the U.S. is heavily involved in countering Chinese military footprints, while also allowing for direct strikes to be launched on Iran and the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. make a deal to purchase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[52232,25956,184,57,10582,50141,29816],"class_list":["post-105182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-chagos-islands","tag-diego-garcia","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-territory","tag-the-telegraph","tag-the-white-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116729213671529556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}