Utopia Talk / Politics / Trump: The Panama Canal is ours!

murder Member	Sat Dec 21 20:21:44 Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal The U.S. ceded control of the canal to Panama in 1999 pursuant to a Carter administration treaty President-elect Donald Trump threatened on Saturday that the U.S. would reassume control of the Panama Canal if it felt that Panama wasn’t honoring the terms of a 1977 treaty regarding the waterway’s legal status. In two lengthy Truth Social posts Saturday evening, Trump accused Panama of charging U.S. vessels exorbitant rates to pass through the critical waterway. He also claimed that the treaties enabling Panama to take control of the canal in the first place also allow for the U.S. to take it back. “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and without question,” Trump wrote. It is unclear what spurred Trump’s invective about the canal. While China has increased its presence in Latin America over the last two decades — and a Hong Kong-based company administers the two ports on each end of the canal — no Chinese commercial or government entity actually has any direct role in managing the flow of vessels through the critical waterway. The canal is administered by an independent Panamanian government agency, the Panama Canal Authority, and China has made no public gestures towards buying the canal or increasing its footprint in the country in recent months. Meanwhile, Panama recently elected José Raúl Mulino as president. Mulino has pledged to bring Panama closer to the United States. The U.S. signed a treaty with the newly independent state of Panama in 1903 that allowed it to develop a long-desired canal through the isthmus which would connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and pay Panama from the revenues generated from the canal. In exchange, the U.S. would guarantee the neutrality of the canal and control land on both sides of the waterway by the Panamanian government. This region, known as the Panama Canal Zone, was administered by the United States and U.S. law applied to the inhabitants of the region. But after decades of tensions around the canal, the Carter administration signed two treaties in 1977 with Panama’s military dictator, Omar Torrijos, to transition control of the vital shipping passage over to Panama. Under the terms of those treaties, Panama would gain control of the canal by 1999 and the U.S. would retain the right to defend the canal from any threat to its neutrality. Analysts, however, do not believe that those provisions in the treaty would allow for the United States to legally retake control of the canal. http://www...21/trump-panama-canal-00195820
tumbleweed the wanderer	Sat Dec 21 21:19:30 we can invade them after Canada
tumbleweed the wanderer	Sat Dec 21 21:24:15 so far he's threatened Canada, Mexico, Panama, the European Union, & BRIC nations (& probably some i forgot) will they all bow to the child-king?... he somehow managed to get the R 'party' to do so (despite his immensely obvious massive flaws), so maybe, i guess
murder Member	Sat Dec 21 22:59:23 He never backs up his lame ass threats, but they will all back down anyway. No one wants to be the one to fight.
murder Member	Mon Dec 23 04:19:44 Now Trump is threatening Denmark & Greenland. So that's Mexico, Canada, Denmark Greenland, Panama ... Does anyone else feel a draft?
patom Member	Mon Dec 23 04:36:26 Well let's see. If we take over Canada, I'll be able to cross the border with ease. All my in laws live across the border.
murder Member	Mon Dec 23 08:03:24 Your in-laws would be considered illegals on US soil, so they'd get deported to some other place, or maybe herded into a reservation.
murder Member	Mon Dec 23 08:05:58 Wouldn't it be great if the US had a President who actually did his job and threw this dumbshit in a dungeon for interfering with US foreign relations?
murder Member	Mon Dec 23 08:10:10 77 million Americans voted for Dementia Don. Now his problem is everybody's problem.
Rugian Member	Mon Dec 23 08:22:02 "Wouldn't it be great if the US had a President who actually did his job and threw this dumbshit in a dungeon for interfering with US foreign relations?" He's too busy with commuting the sentences of child murderers.
williamthebastard Member	Mon Dec 23 08:36:39 US politicians are uniquely, among western countries, susceptible to bribes and bullying, because US politics have to a unique degree, among western countries, been allowed to be taken over by business men who view their careers solely as a business - and in the business world, all that counts is the bottom line on their financial statement.
patom Member	Tue Dec 24 04:17:53 Trump's family business owes millions to Panama in taxes. I think it's time for our Military to Unionize.
TheChildren Member	Tue Dec 24 05:21:40 why yall pretendin this is just 1 man... this is ur govurnment ur swamp this is just mask off kapowned
murder Member	Tue Dec 24 05:43:22 He's not even the government yet. It's just that the current president is taking a nap.
obaminated Member	Tue Dec 24 14:03:42 Who built the canal?
Paramount Member	Wed Dec 25 13:03:54 The US mafia empire can try to take Greenland now if they can. Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory. http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzl19n9eko
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