Posted on 01/04/2025 7:27:56 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
In 1978, the Carter administration made a deal with General Omar Torrijos, the uniformed socialist strongman who had seized power in Panama, to abandon America’s crown jewel.
The Panama Canal had been built with over a decade of labor and half a billion of early twentieth century dollars by American engineers and visionaries who succeeded where the British and the French had failed, in the process they created a new country, Panama, and new trade routes.
Jimmy Carter had run for office promising to oppose a surrender of the canal. As with most of his policies, he turned out to have been lying.
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The wording of the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty stated that “the Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity, the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal.”
“in the process they created a new country, Panama”
Translation, they took a piece of an already existing country, Colombia.
“Biden did OK with China”
I wasn’t too happy about those big balloons.
It can be, if you need to take it for a prudent national reason. Like they violated a treaty and began working against us with our arch enemy.
Better than just blowing the place to hell, right?
Those balloons - like the drones from last month - were a “look a squirrel” distraction.
They did take it in the first place. And then like so many other colonies there was rebellion, and eventually they lost almost the entire colony and managed to get peace with the lease agreement. That’s the problem with taking, the natives frequently don’t want to be taken, and then you have rebellion, which you will always eventually lose.
As for slaves there was no “we”. The Americas were colonized by slave holding countries who supplemented the labor with slaves as they did at home. Ironically of course many of those countries had been conquered by Caesar. So when the slave uprising happened in Haiti they looked at their own history and ended slavery at home, but left it in the colonies.
It’s not the merchant class. It’s government. Government that is too powerful and short sighted. Like Caesar.
How do you know that? Not saying you’re wrong, but how do you know?
Why was China and our Govt working together to show us squirrels?
What was the thing we were supposed to be distracted from?
But the government always acquiesces to the merchants. The merchants will always want their cheap/free labor. At least now the blood-sucking leaches have robots.
"You want this to stop? Give the Canal back."
Which was considered trash and got changed and overwritten.
Dig a new canal from California pacific through Texas to the Gulf. Build it on the US side of the border. That solves two problems with one project.
Democrats always lie. Carter was a turd. Everything he touched went bad.
Balloons and drones are either Chinese and/or 3 letter agencies in origin...
Or they really are UFO’s, UAP’s and aliens from another planet.
I don’t know what exactly they distracted us from, but they sure made several news cycles again and again.
I suppose everyone knows this palindrome:
“A man, a plan, a canal, Panama”
Amen
Indeed they did make several news cycles.
They found the launch site in China. I saw a nice Google earf of it. It has been launching these things all over the place.
But the important part is that is we would never even have known about the balloon if some hill billy hadn’t spotted it and started asking questions.
Maybe that guy was a plant or something, and it really was a squirrel. But I think it was the real deal... allowed to occur for some reason.
When did this new ‘lease’ take effect, and when did it end?
And under what treaty?
Everything I search only talks about a lease ‘in perpetuity’ in the original treaty.
I don't remember (m)any Americans saying that in the 20 years between the Suez Crisis and Carter's election. The bigger picture is that empires were falling apart everywhere and we were the original anti-empire power, so we would eventually have to give up our overseas possessions. Suez was part of that anti-empire trend but not the whole story or the chief reason for our giving up the canal.
If Carter hadn't come along we would have held on to the canal longer and negotiated better conditions if we did give it up. Panamanians certainly wanted the canal. There'd been protests and riots in 1964. LBJ dismissed the Panamanians' grievances, and wielded his big stick and Americans backed him up. It was ours, we built it, and we were going to keep it. Later, after Vietnam, Carter came in with a very different point of view.
Here are some examples of US foreign aid to Panama:
Emergency food assistance: $35.5 million
Title II Emergency Program: $18.82 million
Integrated Protection, Cash, and Livelihood Response for
Crisis-affected Persons: $2.5 million
Emergency Humanitarian Assistance: $2.242 million
Humanitarian Assistance to Displaced Populations: $1.5 million
Humanitarian Assistance: $1 million
The US also provides foreign direct investment to Panama, with a total of $3.8 billion in 2022.
The US has the most foreign direct investment in Panama of any country.
Greenfield makes a very good case.
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