“The United States of America will not allow communist China or any other country to threaten the canal’s operation or integrity,” he said.
He noted that the U.S. and Panama strengthened their defense and security cooperation in recent weeks and together “will take back the Panama Canal from China’s influence.”
Not at all. The other way that this makes sense is that Trump, Hegseth and mob are incompetent wannabe 19th-century imperialists out to grab whatever they can.
They’re incompetent and evil enough to blunder into a war. The bigger question is what kind of war? My guess is that it’ll be a war, allied with Russia, against Western Europe and modern civilization.