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Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China (hexbear.net)

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

He's echoing what they talk about in the back rooms. He's trying to sell their insanity to the people who they know don't give a crap about shipping fees and grandiose Empire bullshit. He's also letting all his people know he doesn't represent them, but those Wall Street morons who yern for then days before Smedley Butler that their generational wealth was built upon. That without FDR's tax structure that actually modernized America.

The people who died were mistreated, poorly paid, and discarded indigenous and Caribbean people - not Americans.

https://theconversation.com/the-panama-canals-forgotten-casualties-93536

People need to start challenging him on this.

You pay a few billion to subsidize a trilllion in economic trade flow.

Stop subsidizing it and pass on the costs to the consumer?
Go to war with central America and sell it as a proxy war against "China" which would cost the taxpayers even more, make the world more hostile to us, which again costs of goods go up.
Keep paying your fair share of subdies and STFU colonizer.

Canada - Wall Street wants your healthcare dollars. They hate Americans being able to point to Canada and the EU's healthcare and infrastructure. Those are profits they could be exploiting.

Greenland - we don't need it. Wall Street drools over it. It isn't ours. You want the resources? Pay your fair share.

The people are sick of Empire shit. I think MAGA is tired of expansionism too. It isn't what they voted him for and that should be drumed into his supporters to keep pressure on him.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Martyrs' Day (Spanish: Día de los Mártires) is a Panamanian day of national mourning which commemorates the January 9, 1964 anti-American riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone. The riot started after a Panamanian flag was torn and students were killed during a conflict with Canal Zone Police officers and Canal Zone residents. It is also known as the Flag Incident or Flag Protests.

In January 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy agreed to fly Panama's flag alongside the U.S. flag at all non-military sites in the Canal Zone where the U.S. flag was flown. However, Kennedy was assassinated before his orders were carried out.

U.S. Army units became involved in suppressing the violence after Canal Zone police were overwhelmed, and after three days of fighting, about 22 Panamanians and four U.S. soldiers were killed. The incident is considered to be a significant factor in the U.S. decision to transfer control of the Canal Zone to Panama through the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

Canal Zone authorities asked the Panama National Guard (Panama's Armed Forces) to suppress the disturbances, but they did not intervene. Meanwhile, demonstrators began to tear down the "Fence of Shame" located in the Canal Zone, a safety feature alongside a busy highway. The opinion of most Panamanians, and most Latin Americans generally, about the fence in question was expressed a few days later by Colombia's ambassador to the Organization of American States: "In Panama there exists today another Berlin Wall."

International reaction was largely unfavorable against the United States. The British and French governments, who had been criticized by U.S. administrations for their foreign policy and handling of their various colonies, accused the U.S. of hypocrisy and argued that their Zonian citizens were as obnoxious as any other group of colonial settlers.

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