While my opinion matters not at all, I disagree, both because Malta is no less subject to imperial forces than the US, but that any such location or headquarters is liable to oppression. It is one of the reasons why my own proposal didn't even potentiate a bureaucracy at all, since that would provide a target for enemies to attack.

Recall that about a year ago a whistle blowing journalist from Malta was blown up in her car, and no repercussions have been applied to the obvious parties profiting from her demise: the very government in power in Malta today.