Trump’s Panamanian Aspirations Are a Canal to Nowhere
Will President Donald Trump really seek to use U.S. military force to retake the Panama Canal as he has threatened? Let’s hope not. Given the fraught nature of retaking the canal by force or even by economic pressure, it could be justified only by the strongest of national security crises or challenges, and there seem to be none implicating the canal on the horizon. Trump, of course, has offered his reasons — that Panama is charging too much for U.S. ships to use the canal and that China supposedly has a threatening presence near the canal — but these reasons The post Trump’s Panamanian Aspirations Are a Canal to Nowhere appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Will President Donald Trump really seek to use U.S. military force to retake the Panama Canal as he has threatened? Let’s hope not. Given the fraught nature of retaking the canal by force or even by economic pressure, it could be justified only by the strongest of national security crises or challenges, and there seem to be none implicating the canal on the horizon. Trump, of course, has offered his reasons — that Panama is charging too much for U.S. ships to use the canal and that China supposedly has a threatening presence near the canal — but these reasons
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