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Trump, Panama Canal and U.S. military

Trump Asks Military for Plans to Take Panama Canal ‘By Force’

The White House has asked the United States military to draw up plans for how it might seize the Panama Canal “by force,” a bombshell report revealed Thursday. The alleged directive comes a week after President Donald Trump told lawmakers in his joint address to Congress he would be “reclaiming” the vital waterway to “further enhance our national security.

MSNBC · 17h

Trump asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal

The White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, according to two U.

The New Republic on MSN · 15h

Trump Gives New Orders to U.S. Military on Panama Canal Takeover

The Trump administration has asked the U.S. military to draw up options for retaking the Panama Canal. President Trump has been pushing for retaking the canal since December, and repeated his desire in a joint address to Congress last week,

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Trump's Talk of the Panama Canal Taps Into Old Myths About U.S. Power

President Theodore Roosevelt provided strategic military ... of the young republic—the territory that would become the Panama Canal Zone. Read More: Donald Trump Still Wants to Take Control ...

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The Threat Behind Trump’s Praise of McKinley & Roosevelt

Work on the Panama Canal could now begin ... in his reverential invocations of presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Ted Snider is a columnist on U.S. foreign policy and history ...

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