U.S. officials familiar with the planning said options for “reclaiming” the vital waterway include close cooperation with Panama’s military and, absent that, possible war.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    The cost of rebuilding would be more than just the cost for materials and labor. They’d also have to deal with a generation of vengeful Panamanian guerillas killing the construction workers, sabotaging equipment, and sinking ships.

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      Yeh it’d be like the situation with the Houthis but worse because the cannal has choke points just one ship wide, and any ship destroyed would block the whole thing for months or even years.