What Trump's Panama Canal threats reveal about today's geopolitics | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take (youtube.com)
OK, I got licorice and more popcorn. You can unpause the empire.
US once ‘owned’ the Panama canal and Carter ‘foolishly’ gave it to Panama, so we should go take it back (treaty 1977, official transfer back to Panama 1999). Sounds a little like Crimea?
Panama has said Trump owes them taxes for properties. Maybe the governments don't like each other.
Greenland. Trump tried to buy it from Denmark in Trump 1.0. Now he's saying ‘national security.’
‘National security’ was said about Crimea also. Hard to see how nukes don't proliferate if the big military powers keep taking land from non-armed countries. Even if US doesn't actually take land but just has fun with threats. Hard to see such threats not emboldening China's assertion of a right to take Taiwan.