Trump Orders US Military to Plan Invasion of Panama to Seize Canal: Report.
Trump Orders US Military to Plan Invasion of Panama to Seize Canal: Report.
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.
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.
Panama Canal seize, Greenland, Canada as 51 state.... I guess the 750 US foreign military bases are not enough for them anymore. Viva Colonialism.
i think at this point we can say for sure that puerto rico is a joke for them
It's a matter of time before Trump gets us into a war on our own hemisphere, and when he does, he will impose a draft. I wish some "journalist" (there aren't really any left any more) would ask him about his opinions on forcing a draft.
I have a 25 year old son, and there is no way I'll allow him to be dragged off by the government to die in a Trump War whose main objective is to destroy America for Putin, so Trump, Musk and their friends can loot America. There is no way my son will be joining a Trump military for any reason.
Please remember that all this is noise to hide the great billionaire sacking of america. Smoke screen.
Threats to other countries isn't noise... It doesn't seem appropriate to hand wave away threats to other people.
...Are we the baddies?
"You're gambling with World War 3."
“You don’t have the cards.” 🃏
Well.
There goes the element of surprise.
Scream loudly if you carry a little orange dick.
- Roosevelt
People of the US military: look up "illegal orders" and "Nürnberg" as long as you can find those terms.
'Illegal orders”? Why do you think was the reason for Hegseth to fired JAGs?
“illegal orders” and “Nürnberg”
American and British courts, as a general rule, refused to accept as a defense the plea of obedience to a superior's illegal orders under any circumstances.
Can we please just invade the White House and depose Donald? Seems better for America.
The title is wildly over hyping this news. He said to plan multiple strategies, not to gear up for an invasion. Of course the military is gonna plan a war scenario. This is not the frightening headline its made out to be, shock the military plans stupid ways to put boots on the ground, the military LOVES to plan wars. Click baity for sure!
I have no idea what you're saying...
What is not frightening about planning to start a war? Are you saying that you could take the canal without starting a war? What other way of acquiring it are you thinking of? What other strategies do you think exist? When you ask the military to come up with multiple strategies to accomplish something, you're really asking them "would we have to put troops on the ground, or could we do this with a bombing campaign? What about the threat of violence and an illegal embargo?". But if you employ the military in any strategy they come up with, you're starting a war.
I mean, I guess we could offer to buy it, but it's a cornerstone of their economy, we wouldn't like the price. And Trump doesn't go in for "bad deals" (paying for things).
So I think it is have that unprovoked invasion is even on the list and that is enough to warrant the headline. Even ordering that to be considered is unambiguously bent a bad guy.
However, another strategy involving the military could conceivably include providing engineering support in exchange for being favored by Panama. Violence isn't the only thing in scope of the military. So you say they have more than one potential military plan is technically conceivable.
While they do report multiple strategies and I'm sure that's true, the fact that explicitly unprovoked military invasion is even on the table at all deserves every bit of outrage.
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.
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.
25th Amendment also applies here. Orange hitler is obviously deranged and dangerous.
Never going to happen. They have given everything to MAGA, if Trump is out of the picture then it's game over. No one cares about Vance, the population would be so enraged he would be impeached and removed faster then you can imagine.
Ok hear me out for a second, sugarpie. The maximum leader of the military is the president. Any attacks on him is considered treason and can get them an expedited ticket to the death penalty.
Illegal wars are a wonderfull distraction from kleptocracy.
Sheesh, if I had $1.1 trillion every time a Republican administration tried that trick...
technically it's not a war it's a 'спецопера́ция'
Ah yes, the fabled 'special operations' thing.
What did we hear from Trumpers last year, that he was the candidate for peace or some such shit?
They meant a candidate for 'piece.' A piece of this country, a piece of that country.
Ah, my mistake lol.
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.
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.
I could totally see this going sideways because they removed quality leadership, engineers, and soldiers via racism.
I'm sure the political party that rushed the country into a war over an obvious lie and then told soldiers they'd just have to deal with their Humvees not having any armor for a few months while they were being ordering to patrol around the IED capitol of the world will feel just awful about it for as long as they're on camera
Fuck Trump. I can’t believe the shit this useless rapist is putting the world through. He needs to eat dirt.
-How full of explosives should we make the canal?
-Yes.
What canal? All I see is C4.
(Edit: pack the ends of the canal with giant shrapnel)
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.
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.
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.
Isn’t the Panama Canal basically running out of water? They should act like they’ve been cowed, sell it to us for a ton of money, and laugh all the way to the bank.
Called it. Can't be arsed to look up the exact comment but I literally said he'd park a carrier on each end of the canal and would do this.
Yeah, I believe you. This was relatively predictable from him.
Sigh... Worst timeline.
Any time someone says they’re gonna invade a country, it’s likely they won’t. People who invade just invade one random day.
You weren't around during the Iraq war? They wouldn't shut the fuck up about it.
Hello. I've watched multiple invasions happen in my lifetime. We all knew it was going to happen every time.
The Orange Turd is planning on taking a shit on Panama.
This is probably to intern us. FYI
How does this pan out if one had to guess? Will other affected countries/powers allow this? I'm guessing anything from WW3 to nothing should be expected