If Trump is looking to add American territory, why not step into the UK’s farcical negotiations with Mauritius?

Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

home to a strategically important U.K.-U.S. naval and bomber base. The U.K. government announced in October that it intends to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius — though Britain would retain ...