Trump Orders US Military to Plan Invasion of Panama to Seize Canal: Report.

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'

They meant a candidate for 'piece.' A piece of this country, a piece of that country.

He was angling for the Nobel peace prize in Ukraine but I guess he figured out it was too hard

25th Amendment also applies here. Orange hitler is obviously deranged and dangerous.

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.

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 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.

He wants to be a strongman and he realizes peoples' impression of him is nearly as small as his penis.

Papa Putin says so.

Because you can’t really invade a place full of white people like Greenland or Canada. Even the diehard Trump fans would probably not be okay with that. On the other hand, a country full of poor, brown people that have only ever been fucked over by America? Well shit, we can’t wait to bomb them! George Carlin explained it, America loves bombing brown people. Anyone in the US military with the slightest amount of backbone will not follow these illegal orders. See the Nuremberg Trials if you’re not sure what an illegal order looks like. They aren’t even trying with a WMD hoax, this is just an illegal invasion.

Putin knows that one of the quickest ways to destroy the US is if the rest of western civilization abandons it. Russia saw firsthand how quickly nearly the entire world joined in to sanction and abandon them when they invaded Ukraine with that bullshit story. The Panama shit is an even worse excuse, almost guaranteed to turn the western world fully against the US.

However, it's also physically separated enough from the US that Americans at home that don't pay attention won't be directly affected to turn against it with retaliation, the Republican base is racist and narcissistic enough to back it seriously, and with a large enough power imbalance so unlike Ukraine there's no chance of a prolonged conflict.

The infrastructure isn't in place yet for them to just do whatever they want and arrest every protester like Russia does, so they do have to still take that into account, Panama is remote and unknown to a large portion of the population sadly. But the building of Panama Canal is something that many learned about in school as a pivotal historical infrastructure project. Something still in use today and referenced in the news even though they may not know where it is. For the America is Best narcissist, taking back what "we" built is an admirable goal.

My theory:

Panama controls a major trade route and charges shitloads of money for each ship that passes.

Same reason for Canada. The North-West Passage is melting and will be open year round in the not too distant future.

The same makes sense for Greenland if you consider Russia as a trade partner with lots of raw metals. Plus Greenland itself may have oil. Again, this when the ice melts completely.

The lake that feeds it is not recharging fast enough so they’re limiting passage of ships and making them take longer and more dangerous routes. So he’s probably planning to commit ecocide on the lake for the handful of years it can sustain the canal at max capacity but long enough to stymie other routes being planned or built.

Penile dysmorphic disorder

No no no, they're invading another country to checks notes stop the flow of fentanyl where 901955% of it flows through.

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

No, but it will severely disrupt golabl trade and make everything more expensive so you don't think about eggs anymore.

Threats to other countries isn't noise... It doesn't seem appropriate to hand wave away threats to other people.

Same, putting my kids on the first flight out of the country if I even catch a whiff of Mango Mussolini thinking about imposing a draft.

A draft is political suicide, nothing would get him off the white house faster. There's a reason the wars against China and Russia have people from other countries slated to die.

What canal? All I see is C4.

(Edit: pack the ends of the canal with giant shrapnel)

Exactly. He is the root cause of all of our issues. But going this route will cause a civil war - he still has many die hard supporters who are now unemployed and have too much time on their hands, not to mention the propaganda on social media... who will defend trump until everyone is dead. I can see some of his supporters stepping away if there is a draft. The upside, if there is a civil war Russia won’t be able to help Trump since they’ve been losing at their war for a few years.

Scream loudly if you carry a little orange dick.

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There is no way my son will be serving in a Trump army, fighting in a Trump war. You know that it will be incompetently managed, with more of an emphasis on making sure lots of government war contracts go to those who have properly kissed his ass and paid bribes/kickbacks, rather than the safe and effective deployment of our troops.

i think at this point we can say for sure that puerto rico is a joke for them

In which case now is a pretty good time for all other nations to start shutting down their US bases and deporting all personnel back to America. We don't need a forward operating base in our country if there's the potential it could be used in such a manner.

Or he is just a blowhard

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.

Have been for a very long time. (love wkuk)

“You don’t have the cards.” 🃏

If they didn’t have defence plans before, they sure do now!

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).

Click bait, yes, but leave it up to trump to say the quiet part out loud over and over.

People should be afraid of what's coming

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.

Yeah, I believe you. This was relatively predictable from him.

Sigh... Worst timeline.

It would be rude.

If thousands of Panamanians need to die to make people finally give in and support Pete Buttigieg that's a price they're willing to pay

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.