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It can seem right to transfer the Chagos Islands on the basis of the principle of territorial integrity, abstracted from questions of power and capacity, which is itself already a hopeless abstraction even at the level of principle to the extent that it has been abstracted from the critical principle of self-determination, only if we have lost all sense of international relations. This is deeply troubling, especially given that it is not 2000 but 2025, and we are now engaging with Cold War II.