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US Threat to 'Take back' the Panama Canal

Andy_Ross said:
I would sink a ship in every lock and blow all the gates.

Tell them it's theirs.

It would take the US years to get it running again if Trump and his cronies are in charge.
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China would be really upset.

And them probably dig a new canal.
 
I repeat it would be very easy to go scorched earth on the Canal. Just a few pounds of Plastic Explosive in the right places on the locks would do it.
 
Not enought. the pumps and gates yes but sink something in each lock as well.
 
There has been talk in the past of creating another canal in Nicuragua. Essentially a Chinese company (Hong Kong, honest!) was behind it. Then it was cancelled. This might revive interest.
 
angrysoba said:
There has been talk in the past of creating another canal in Nicuragua. Essentially a Chinese company (Hong Kong, honest!) was behind it. Then it was cancelled. This might revive interest.
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You do know that Panama was basically carved out of Nicragua to get the canal built?
I am skeptical about antoher canal, simply because of how much it would cost and how long until you actually got iinto profit.
 
dudalb said:
You do know that Panama was basically carved out of Nicragua to get the canal built?
I am skeptical about antoher canal, simply because of how much it would cost and how long until you actually got iinto profit.
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It's not really relevant.

There are more recent plans, and it appears they may have been revived recently, for a Nicaragua Canal.
 
Ron Obvious said:
I'm pretty sure it was carved out of Colombia, actually.
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arthwollipot said:
My map has Costa Rica between Panama and Nicaragua. Perhaps the American maps show something different.
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Yeah, looks to me as though Nicaragua was part of Mexico, then part of the Federal Republic of Central America (along with a number of other countries such as Costa Rica), while Panama was part of Colombia. So what dudalb was speaking of is anyone's guess.
 
3point14 said:
How much would this cost in trade?

My guess would be "a lot".
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That's the price to pay for the US not minding its own ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ business because some ass hole POTUS wants something that isn't his and that he has no right to. Trade would still happen, it would just take a lot longer. A good reason for the US to, as I said, mind its own ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ business.
 
dudalb said:
You do know that Panama was basically carved out of Nicragua to get the canal built?
I am skeptical about antoher canal, simply because of how much it would cost and how long until you actually got iinto profit.
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You do know it was Colombia? The Colombian president even referenced that in his recent complaint about the treatment of deportees.

The Nicaraguan canal would be much longer that the Panama canal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Canal_and_Development_Project
 
Length isn't really the issue, difference in elevation and hostility of terrain is .
The Canal could and should have been built somewhere else, but the French Architect got his ego-project.
 
3point14 said:
How much would this cost in trade?

My guess would be "a lot".
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Somewhere, in this tread (or maybe another one - without the Search Function I can;t figure it out), I did publish some numbers as t the volume of Global trade and US trade that passes through the Canal. It is huge. Shutting the canal down for even a couple of weeks would be extremely costly.
 
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