So this was just breaking this afternoon.
First, Zelensky caves, and now it looks like the Chinese have started to.
If you remember back a whole month and a half (I know, hilarious, right?), Trump was in full ‘I just got this gig and this here Sharpie‘ bluster and had officially set his eyes on getting the Panama Canal back.
Or at least making it quite clear to that little country that the United States was no longer going to stand for it playing footsies with our geo-political enemy, especially over a strategic navigational link that we built and should never have given away. Trump was tired of Panama feeling froggy.
…Let’s take the Panama Canal. That one seems pretty simple on its face – Jimmy Carter gave it away for $1 and a vague exhortation to ‘respect the rights of the American citizens’ who still lived there.
Trump’s complaints have been that Panama is…
