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.

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    People of the US military: look up “illegal orders” and “Nürnberg” as long as you can find those terms.

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    If this happens the government MUST be overthrown. If your tax dollars are being used to fund the unjustifiable murder of innocent people, you’re just as guilty as the ones doing the shooting. It would be better that we lose millions in a nuclear civil war than become the new Nazis.

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      If your tax dollars are being used to fund the unjustifiable murder of innocent people

      🌏🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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    Can our military just step up already and take these fuckers out? They are duty-bound to refuse unlawful orders.

    And these people are fucking traitors.

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      Even if his orders are lawful, they’ve sworn an oath to defend the constitution from all threats foreign and domestic: they’re duty bound to engage him in the exact same way they do with a combatant from Isis or something. Donald Trump is an enemy to the US.

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    then-President Jimmy Carter transferred sovereignty to Panama in the late 1970s.

    We’re literally just invading another country to take their property. Which to be fair IS a long rich American tradition, but gawdamnit it has to stop.

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    I miss when I would wake up and check the news and nothing particularly crazy was going on. Like you would click on the TV and they are talking about a zoo that recently got a baby giraffe or something.

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      They meant a candidate for ‘piece.’ A piece of this country, a piece of that country.

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      He wants to be a strongman and he realizes peoples’ impression of him is nearly as small as his penis.

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      Because you can’t really invade a place full of white people like Greenland or Canada. Even the diehard Trump fans would probably not be okay with that. On the other hand, a country full of poor, brown people that have only ever been fucked over by America? Well shit, we can’t wait to bomb them! George Carlin explained it, America loves bombing brown people. Anyone in the US military with the slightest amount of backbone will not follow these illegal orders. See the Nuremberg Trials if you’re not sure what an illegal order looks like. They aren’t even trying with a WMD hoax, this is just an illegal invasion.

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        Even the diehard Trump fans would probably not be okay

        Given the number of diehard trump fans who wish harm to other members of the US and agitate for an internal war, I doubt this is true for the majority of them.

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    Wow. Really? Like really really?

    We’re now gonna massacre a bunch of Panamanians for a shipping canal? Fuck.

    Well, now that they clearly have great OPSEC, I hope Panama sabotages the hell out of it.

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      I think Panama did say they’d destroy the canal before they’d allow it to be taken. I took a cursory look for that tidbit, but the news feeds about the canal are blown up at the moment.

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        If I had to wager a guess, destroying the canal wouldn’t stop a takeover. Rebuilding it would be a fraction of the price of the war.

        And don’t try telling me that the cost of the war will be much higher than just the military occupation because of shipping costs going up from the canal being shut down, the cost of actually maintaining the place, riots, etc because the idiots who want this wouldn’t listen for long enough to think about that anyway.

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          The cost of rebuilding would be more than just the cost for materials and labor. They’d also have to deal with a generation of vengeful Panamanian guerillas killing the construction workers, sabotaging equipment, and sinking ships.