U.S. officials familiar with the planning said options for "reclaiming" the vital waterway include close cooperation with Panama's military and, absent that, possible war.
Common Dreams has been publishing for over 20 years, and is considered a generally reliable source of left-leaning news. It has a better rep than HuffPo or Breitbart, and it started in roughly the same era.
Is Common Dreams reliable? It sounds like something you’d name your high school blog. Any reporting if this elsewhere?
Common Dreams has been publishing for over 20 years, and is considered a generally reliable source of left-leaning news. It has a better rep than HuffPo or Breitbart, and it started in roughly the same era.
Huh. TIL. Never heard of it before.
First time for everything.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-white-house-asked-us-military-develop-options-panama-canal-offic-rcna195994
https://newrepublic.com/post/192718/trump-orders-u.s.-military-panama-canal
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-asks-military-for-plans-to-take-panama-canal-by-force/
https://www.msnbc.com/jose-diaz-balart/watch/trump-administration-directs-military-to-develop-options-for-panama-canal-234321477771
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/pentagon-panama-canal-options/index.html
God. A return to the mean for US foreign policy. What will this be? The 10th US invasion of Panama?
I guess we better start taking the Greenland and Canada shit more seriously.
He already said annexation of Greenland will happen.
Is he just doing domestically something purely evil again and throwing feces at a window to distract people.
They probably should have rigged it to blow the locks awhile ago.
There’s no time like the present!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-panama-canal-military-us-troops-b2714558.html
Edit, beaten to it by someone more thorough!