'There will be many casualties': Panama girds for war as Rubio opens talks : worldnews

Uh, countries do know if they're on that list, which does include include Panama. I mean seriously, many countries actively encourage US military bases to be built on their soil. They are giving up some of their sovereignty for US protection and economic benefit. Now I do acknowledge that there a ton of countries that the US operates in without sufficient justification, whether it be above board or below, however, I don't care about what other countries think.

Also, tracking a ship is very different from controlling a port where a ship docks at. China can obviously see every ship in the ocean. The ports are important because they can track exactly what the ships are carrying, among other things. If you want to get into spy shenanigans its easy to see why the ports might be useful. And, they could theoretically just stop all ships from passing through by just jacking up the cost to transit. Also two Chinese ports are building a massive bridge across the panama canal, which could actually be used to shut down the canal immediately. This is such a dumb hill to die on, chinese presence is bad in our most important canal. We're already going to be tariffing half the fricking world, what the frick are other countries going to do if we kick china out, even if by force.

repairing locks might take months. It will probably lose a lot of money. We're also the richest country on earth. We've blown way more money on way less just to hurt our enemies. With all the tariffs going up, I doubt any price increases for goods will be comparatively noticeable