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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

Two claims here cancel each other out in the same breath: a large new military presence, and no cost to the United States — bases, it turns out, are famously self-assembling. Then there is the promise of forever, a word no treaty, parliament, or election has ever honored, deployed precisely because no one alive can be around to check the receipts. The tell is the boast that a century of predecessors couldn't do it; the measure of a deal is what the other parties signed, not how many prior presidents you can insult in a single paragraph. As for the people who actually live on the island, they appear in the announcement roughly where the construction schedule does.