Kiribati's fisheries were crippled long before foreign fleets arrived. The WWII Battle of Tarawa devastated Betio's reefs and destroyed ~17,000~ coconut trees, obliterating the local subsistence economy. This historical collapse forced Kiribati into pragmatic, high-stakes deals. Their 1985 pact with the USSR was less a desperate act and more a calculated move to leverage Cold War tensions for economic benefit, sparking regional alarm. Decades later, their celebrated Phoenix Islands Protected Are
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