What international justice took decades to build, the will of a single man and the uproar of a war provoked by Israel and the US against Iran; has been demolished in hours.

The official excuse is the "lack of support" that Washington is demanding from Prime Minister Keir Starmer . The reality is that the Diego Garcia base has become too valuable to the offensive that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are waging against Iran to allow international law to stand in the way.

The "Freezing" of a historic treaty

According to The Guardian , the UK has been forced to withdraw the legislation ratifying the sovereignty agreement. The technical reason is revealing: the US refused to exchange the formal letters to amend the 1966 treaty, blocking any transfer . As the British newspaper points out, the special relationship between London and Washington is under extreme strain, with Trump having called the agreement "stupid" and unforgiving of Starmer 's initial reluctance to use the bases in the attack on Tehran.

The sources of the capitulation

To understand the magnitude of this setback, it is necessary to look at the map of the global and national press:

Chagos and the Malvinas: The same colonial manual

From Agenda Malvinas ' perspective, this episode is a lesson in imperial brutality. London's decision demonstrates that, for the Northern powers, international tribunals like the International Court of Justice are binding only when they do not affect their defense interests.

If the United Kingdom can ignore a ruling from The Hague and an agreement already signed with Mauritius, due to pressure from an ally, it becomes clear that the claim of self-determination with which it goads its colony in the Malvinas is also a fiction. The Diego Garcia base today, like the Mount Pleasant base in the Malvinas , is not merely a defensive enclave; it is a piece on a chessboard where international law has vanished.

A world of force, not of laws

The end of unipolarity has not brought, for now, a fairer order, but a more ruthless one . The suspension of the Chagos handover is the death knell for the "multilateralism" that the Labour Party tried to sell. Today, the Chagos archipelago is once again what it always was for the empire: an airstrip surrounded by sea, where justice has been supplanted by the fuel of US bombers.