Many people, perhaps even I at times, debate the granular aspects of President Trump’s administrative agenda. However, there is one component of President Donald J Trump that can never be debated, he is the most consequential U.S President in the past century.
There is not a single intellectually honest person who would doubt the intent and focus of Donald Trump to protect and defend the vital interests of our nation. President Trump’s perspective on the biggest of big pictures can never be denied. He has our total support.
President Trump is directing focus toward the U.S. vital national interest in the Panama Canal with a direct and brutally honest message to the government of the nation who benefitted from the most significant engineering accomplishment in all of the Americas.
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In a set of messages from his Truth Social account, directed toward the government of Panama, President Trump is placing a strong marker to say the control of the Panama Canal will never be allowed to fall into the hands of those who do not have our best interests in mind.
President Trump is not mincing words about our American position.
“[The Panama Canal] was not given for the benefit of others, but merely as a token of cooperation with us and Panama,” Trump concluded. “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.”
Carter gave up control of the canal to Panama/China and Iran to the Ayatollahs, had 9.9% year-over-year inflation and a major energy shortage, thus maintaining his place as the third worst President in the last 100 years behind Biden and Obama. However, he did love his country and served it well in the Navy. Thus he’s not as bad as Obama.
Panama owns the Canal as of December 31, 1999 when Carter gave up US control. Despite the fact that in 1903 the U.S. entered an ongoing lease agreement with no end date to construct and operate the Canal, Panama always retained utmost control. Panama has sold operations of several ports to China, and built a bridge that spans the Canal which is of great concern to those who are concerned with access.
Panama invested $5 Billion some years ago to expand operation by adding a widened Canal in parallel to the original. Unless that was done with foreign funds, I assert that Canal also belongs to Panama.
As an aside, the Canal’s operations were severely reduced this last year due to droughts in Panama as the locks work solely on the water collected in Gatun Lake.
The money came from China, everyone knows this.
There is a treaty in place that returns the Canal to the US if the Canal is mismanaged/used against the interests of the US.
It was never repealed.
An incredibly well researched book on the construction of the Panama Canal that I highly recommend is “Path Between the Seas” by: David McCullough.
The French Engineer who successfully built the Suez Canal began the initial attempts at the Canal across the isthmus and the rest is history…
But the French failed in their mission to build the Canal, so Teddy Roosevelt sent in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers armed with the plans and schematics from the Sault St. Marie locks in Michigan and the U.S. successfully built the Canal.
The French failure, due to funding issues principally, but an entire host of issues, is why I said they “began the initial attempts at the Canal across the isthmus”.
Teddy receives the credit now, but contrary to popular history, “Path Between the Seas” tells the complete, and somewhat different story. To his credit, he enlisted the Army for Engineering and work force which made the endeavor successful.
It was the work the work and dictates of one particular Doctor who fought “the science” of medicine at the time, and discovered the cause of the two killers of the workers on the Canal.
All the NGOs use former USG buildings at / near the Canal as staging areas for unrestricted migration. 3D chess perhaps.
Those NGOs And the United Nations use the former US Base @the canal.
U.S. Navy’s dominance of the world’s oceans is a guarantor of global trade. An indispensable foreign policy tool that affects ALL of the world’s richest banks, manufacturers, and maritime shipping dynasties.
Our President executes economic leverage where he knows he will win. He’s waving the Panama Canal flag but is subtly letting the trading world know that he has them by the balls.
If you want to really reverse the catastrophic inflation and trade deficits in the U.S., you start here.
Wow. A very robust argument. If so many of our men died in such a remarkable piece of infrastructure, one would need to ask: Why did we give it away after all?
Oh.
Never mind.
These kinds of issues are of more importance to me than buffoonish concepts like the “transatlantic alliance”. (Oh. please!) These Europeans are suicidal, they’re not worthy of our time.
Thank that worthless scumbag Jimmah Cahtuh for one more piece of damned idiocy.
I am a Zonian..
..you may call me “A Canal Zone Brat”. Entitled. Arrogant. Fearless. And American.
I swam in the Canal….I took my pony swimming in the canal…and the family dog…I named the gators that hung out near my dad’s favorite fishing spot…it is alleged that I smuggled chilled cases of beer onto a tugboat, some Sunday afternoons…(that was before the BATF)…
For all y’all out there…the Zonians hiding in the closet…come out where I can see you…am starting to feel like John Hancock before everyone but him, had signed the Declaration of Independence….back then, people were afraid to speak out against “The Treaty”….only 200 people here, with comments? Good grief.
There is an old blessing…that says if you drink the water of the Chagres River, it will never leave you…nor you, it…and you will return…
Many Americans were/are angry at pee-nut carter for abandoning the Panama Canal………
After Americans built it …… my great uncle helped build it………
It is also such a great, natural, physical, pinch point to stop illegals from passing through from South America and other points.
Not to mentioned being a beachhead for the chin-ese that should be eliminated for our national security.
Those who helped build it, have very strong feelings…it was not an easy task…injurie’s and malaria/yellow fever.I believe the original owner of the Canal Zone Brats website has passed on…but one can find lots of info and for me…memories…of living there…https://www.czbrats.com/Builders/roosemedals.htm
The US government is smuggling illegals thru the Canal and the Darian Gap…the deep state has set up the NGO camps to process them thru and on to Mexico…Michael Yon has documented it all. The United States Government is run by traitors and should be treated accordingly.
Right. On.
China is building a highway bridge through the Darien Gap . That will unclog the only physical barrier to illegal immigrants south of the Rio Grande. It is a direct effort by China to undermine US security.
Today illegals from all over the world can fly into Bolivia or Uruguay without needing a visa. Then they catch busses up to the south edge of the Darien Gap. Once they cross the gap on foot they get onto other busses, trains or airplanes to move all the way to our southern border. (Those “caravans” with thousands on foot are mostly just for the TV cameras and fundraising for pro-illegal NGOs.)
Make Panama the 51st state.
God no! We don’t want Panama; just the Canal.
We can always build a couple of new canal….I mean border walls.
I am sooo pleased to see this.
Daddy Trump is back.
Seems like the U.S. government has been forcing regime changes for quite a while. . .
“When a proposed treaty over rights to build in what was then a Colombian territory was rejected, the U.S. threw its military weight behind a Panamanian independence movement, eventually negotiating a deal with the new government.”
“On November 6, 1903, the United States recognized the Republic of Panama, and on November 18 the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed with Panama, granting the U.S. exclusive and permanent possession of the Panama Canal Zone. In exchange, Panama received $10 million and an annuity of $250,000 beginning nine years later.”
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/panama-canal-rare-pictures-1881-1914/
The History Channel video is fascinating and shows work done by the “Americans” with historic photos and videos.
HC bastardizes the pronunciation of Spanish words such as the Culebra River (Rio Culebra), and the Culebra Cut Culebra is pronounced Ku le’ bra, is snake in Spanish. One would think that the History Channel could afford to consult someone who spoke Spanish. Am I nitpicking? Absolutely. Names and their pronunciations are important.
Panama can be a territory of the United States until such time it will accede to become a State of its own right.
The American diaspora there is big, and Panama City can truly become a Singapore of the Americas. One that belongs to the US of A.
Singapore, via their port group PSA, already has significant operations in Panama.
President Donald Trump is a lynx who sees further than us.
Retake the canal. Secure the southern US border.
The southern US border needs a wall (build it!); a moat (the Rio Grande); and another moat (reestablish the US controlled Canal Zone) to block illegals from all over the world who now can fly into South America without any visas or restrictions and then journey all the way north supported by Leftist NGOs.
It was my understanding that our carriers cannot use the canal because of their size. So I’m wondering how it is to our national interest and more to do with money.