[rndmio]

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.

[ItCouldBeWorse]

Its more a sort of shakedown of a ex-colonial power

[Yeul]

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.

[practice9]

More like reparations