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Panamá should ban all military ships from all nations from going through the canal. That would go a long way towards promoting world peace and easing trade.
Of course, realistically, they would be invaded by the US faster than you can say "Pissing off the richest military dictatorship in the world isn't a smart idea". Still, the idea is appealing.
I’m pretty sure one of the two treaties that handed over control of the Panama Canal Zone specifically allows the U.S. to use military force to defend the neutrality of the Canal and gives the U.S. military access (paying the same tolls as anyone else but they’re not much: wikipedia says $3 million a year).
I mean, not that Trump necessarily cares. But it’s a fully ratified treaty by 2/3 of the Senate (and in Panama by referendum). Even this Calvinball-ass Supreme Court would probably vote 7-2 that a treaty signed by the president and ratified by the Senate isn’t something an executive order can override. Executive orders aren’t even laws, much less ratified treaties.
Panamá should ban all military ships from all nations from going through the canal. That would go a long way towards promoting world peace and easing trade.
That's a critical passageway for the US. It'd be something like the Strait of the Gibraltar being severed for Europe, cutting half of the entity off from the other half by water and requiring their Med-based and Pacific-based ships to go around Africa to reach each other.
That’s a critical passageway for the US. It’d be something like the Strait of the Gibraltar being severed for Europe,
It's quite different: the Panama Canal belongs to Panama and theirs to do as they please. Gibraltar, while not international waters, is free to all navigation for the purpose of crossing under the Law of the Sea Convention and may not be closed off by either Spain or Morocco.
I'd rather see them destroyed than owned by Arasaka (Blackrock)
Burn corpo shit