#expansionism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #expansionism, aggregated by home.social.
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The #Land Lord's Game
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)
* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.
Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples -
The #Land Lord's Game
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)
* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.
Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples -
⬆️ Hot on the heels of #Trump's high-profile trip to Beijing, #Putin plans to visit to #China to deepen strategic ties with #Xi.
#Russia and China are partners-in-crime, with Russia being the #juniorPartner. They will discuss strengthening their partnership and address key global issues.
They're both supporting each other’s #expansionism and will sign a joint declaration, probably Russia permanently expanding its #bufferZone in #Ukraine.
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Did the #US Administration just say that they're proud of #invasions, #annexations, #expansionism and #imperialism?
Let's see! Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Marshall Islands and other Pacific islands,... That figures! But still! Isn't that like saying, "I'm a proud robber"? 🤔🤨
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Did the #US Administration just say that they're proud of #invasions, #annexations, #expansionism and #imperialism?
Let's see! Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Marshall Islands and other Pacific islands,... That figures! But still! Isn't that like saying, "I'm a proud robber"? 🤔🤨
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The three most interesting paragraphs from this story, IMO:
"The Stay Free Alberta petitioners say they have collected 301,620 signatures, well over the 178,000 threshold that can prompt the province to consider a referendum question. "
"Gordon McClure, chief electoral officer, has said that [the verification] process will now also include a search for fake names seeded in copies of voter lists — designed as a mechanism to prove if improper use of the electoral list has been used.”
"A pro-unity ‘Forever Canadian’ petition had 404,293 signatures verified in December. That citizen initiative wants the government to consider making it official policy for Alberta to remain a part of Canada.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Separatism #Republicanism #Fascism #USA #Expansionism
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The three most interesting paragraphs from this story, IMO:
"The Stay Free Alberta petitioners say they have collected 301,620 signatures, well over the 178,000 threshold that can prompt the province to consider a referendum question. "
"Gordon McClure, chief electoral officer, has said that [the verification] process will now also include a search for fake names seeded in copies of voter lists — designed as a mechanism to prove if improper use of the electoral list has been used.”
"A pro-unity ‘Forever Canadian’ petition had 404,293 signatures verified in December. That citizen initiative wants the government to consider making it official policy for Alberta to remain a part of Canada.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Separatism #Republicanism #Fascism #USA #Expansionism
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The Economist: Canada’s armed forces are planning for threats from America
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The Economist: Canada’s armed forces are planning for threats from America
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Greenland isn't for sale? The Trump administration says "Watch me." A map posted by Stephen Miller's wife says "SOON." The Don-roe Doctrine means if you have what the US wants, sovereignty is just a suggestion. Denmark, wake up. #Greenland #Expansionism #Geopolitics
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Greenland isn't for sale? The Trump administration says "Watch me." A map posted by Stephen Miller's wife says "SOON." The Don-roe Doctrine means if you have what the US wants, sovereignty is just a suggestion. Denmark, wake up. #Greenland #Expansionism #Geopolitics
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Ted Trainer has made that Boyer lecture useful after all by digging it up, composting it and growing his fine article on the repurposed soil.
#BoyerLecture #TedTrainer #Neoliberalism #JustinWolfers #Expansionism #LimitlessGrowth #ClimateChange #PrivateOpulencePublicSqualor
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Ted Trainer has made that Boyer lecture useful after all by digging it up, composting it and growing his fine article on the repurposed soil.
#BoyerLecture #TedTrainer #Neoliberalism #JustinWolfers #Expansionism #LimitlessGrowth #ClimateChange #PrivateOpulencePublicSqualor
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"A blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development."
The new norm ?
"Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship.
A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/leaked-gaza-riviera-plan-dismissed-as-insane-attempt-to-cover-ethnic-cleansing"Gaza is becoming ‘graveyard of international humanitarian law’ "
"We have made the Geneva convention[s] almost irrelevant. What is happening and being accepted today in Gaza is not something that can be isolated; it will become the new norm for all future conflicts."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/03/gaza-graveyard-international-humanitarian-law-unrwa-israel-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates-news
#EconomicAcceleration #EthnicCleansing #MassDeportation #ForcedDisplacement #ImperialBoomerang #expansionism #destruction #InternationalLaw #law #GenevaConventions #civilians #BareLifeAgamben #StatesOfException #HyperNormalisation #everywhere -
"A blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development."
The new norm ?
"Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship.
A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/leaked-gaza-riviera-plan-dismissed-as-insane-attempt-to-cover-ethnic-cleansing"Gaza is becoming ‘graveyard of international humanitarian law’ "
"We have made the Geneva convention[s] almost irrelevant. What is happening and being accepted today in Gaza is not something that can be isolated; it will become the new norm for all future conflicts."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/03/gaza-graveyard-international-humanitarian-law-unrwa-israel-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates-news
#EconomicAcceleration #EthnicCleansing #MassDeportation #ForcedDisplacement #ImperialBoomerang #expansionism #destruction #InternationalLaw #law #GenevaConventions #civilians #BareLifeAgamben #StatesOfException #HyperNormalisation #everywhere -
"Climate change is an existential problem of planetary proportions."
"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a historic advisory opinion that could reshape the global legal landscape for climate action, declaring that States have binding duties under international law to protect the climate system and that a failure to take appropriate measures may constitute an internationally wrongful act."
"The ICJ also addressed the oceans, affirming that anthropogenic GHG emissions qualify as “pollution of the marine environment” under UNCLOS, triggering obligations for States to “take all measures… necessary to prevent, reduce and control pollution.”
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https://pasifika.news/2025/07/icj-rules-climate-inaction-breaches-international-law-affirms-states-legal-duties-to-act/
#FossilFuels #CoalAndGas #expansionism #Australia #SA #pollution #MarineHeatwave #Pacific #ocean #MassMortalityEvents #GHG #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #reparations #restitution #justice #law #ClimateAction -
"Climate change is an existential problem of planetary proportions."
"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a historic advisory opinion that could reshape the global legal landscape for climate action, declaring that States have binding duties under international law to protect the climate system and that a failure to take appropriate measures may constitute an internationally wrongful act."
"The ICJ also addressed the oceans, affirming that anthropogenic GHG emissions qualify as “pollution of the marine environment” under UNCLOS, triggering obligations for States to “take all measures… necessary to prevent, reduce and control pollution.”
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https://pasifika.news/2025/07/icj-rules-climate-inaction-breaches-international-law-affirms-states-legal-duties-to-act/
#FossilFuels #CoalAndGas #expansionism #Australia #SA #pollution #MarineHeatwave #Pacific #ocean #MassMortalityEvents #GHG #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #reparations #restitution #justice #law #ClimateAction -
"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."
by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons 🧶
#settlers #Bolshevism #socialism #Revolution #RussianJews #Zionism #Revisionism #Revisionists #supremacy #RussianSupremacy #Russia #Ukraine #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #NeverAgain #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #Aliyah #Russians #Mapai #Labour #LabourParty #JewishState #israel #immigration #immigrants #MittelEuropa #PaleOfSettlement #history #Kibbutz #Kibbutzim #expansionism
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"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."
by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons 🧶
#settlers #Bolshevism #socialism #Revolution #RussianJews #Zionism #Revisionism #Revisionists #supremacy #RussianSupremacy #Russia #Ukraine #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #NeverAgain #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #Aliyah #Russians #Mapai #Labour #LabourParty #JewishState #israel #immigration #immigrants #MittelEuropa #PaleOfSettlement #history #Kibbutz #Kibbutzim #expansionism
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#Trump’s sharing of the clip to his 9M followers on Truth Social, w/no acknowledgment of its source, suggested that he was claiming it as a rendering of his #policy plans. It immediately found a wider audience: headlines, including one from NPR, described the video as “Trump’s.” In fact, it is the work of 2 Israeli American filmmakers, Solo Avital & Ariel Vromen, who run an #AI-driven studio in Los Angeles….
#expansionism #imperialism #Gaza #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309695/trump-gaza-video -
#Trump’s sharing of the clip to his 9M followers on Truth Social, w/no acknowledgment of its source, suggested that he was claiming it as a rendering of his #policy plans. It immediately found a wider audience: headlines, including one from NPR, described the video as “Trump’s.” In fact, it is the work of 2 Israeli American filmmakers, Solo Avital & Ariel Vromen, who run an #AI-driven studio in Los Angeles….
#expansionism #imperialism #Gaza #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309695/trump-gaza-video -
Its soundtrack was an #AI generated, clubby song w/lyrics such as “Trump Gaza shining bright, golden future, a brand new light.” Earlier in Feb, #Trump had threatened to “take over” #Gaza, forcibly relocate its population of 2 million, & turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” The AI video made the #neocolonialist mission nauseatingly explicit.
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Its soundtrack was an #AI generated, clubby song w/lyrics such as “Trump Gaza shining bright, golden future, a brand new light.” Earlier in Feb, #Trump had threatened to “take over” #Gaza, forcibly relocate its population of 2 million, & turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” The AI video made the #neocolonialist mission nauseatingly explicit.
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Money rains down from the sky, above a simulacrum of #ElonMusk. #Trump & Benjamin #Netanyahu sip cocktails bare-chested on the beach. Effigies of Trump’s head abound, including atop a towering golden statue of the man. The statue’s disproportionately long legs were just one clue that the video’s strangely smooth & symmetrical compositions were made using #ArtificialIntelligence.
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Money rains down from the sky, above a simulacrum of #ElonMusk. #Trump & Benjamin #Netanyahu sip cocktails bare-chested on the beach. Effigies of Trump’s head abound, including atop a towering golden statue of the man. The statue’s disproportionately long legs were just one clue that the video’s strangely smooth & symmetrical compositions were made using #ArtificialIntelligence.
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#Trump outlined a vision of American #expansionism: building up our naval capacity, reclaiming the #PanamaCanal, & pledging to “get” #Greenland, “one way or another.”
He didn’t mention his aim to make #Canada the 51st state. But that may be because he doesn’t want to get into the horribly idiotic & disastrous #tariffs he placed on Canada & #Mexico today.
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#Trump outlined a vision of American #expansionism: building up our naval capacity, reclaiming the #PanamaCanal, & pledging to “get” #Greenland, “one way or another.”
He didn’t mention his aim to make #Canada the 51st state. But that may be because he doesn’t want to get into the horribly idiotic & disastrous #tariffs he placed on Canada & #Mexico today.
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Back to London…
#Starmer opened the #summit of #Europe’s leaders in London w/ #Macron & #Zelensky seated beside him. “We’re gathered here today because this is a once in a generation moment for the #security of Europe, & we all need to step up,” Starmer told the assembled leaders. “Getting a good outcome for #Ukraine is not just a matter of right & wrong, it’s vital for the security of every nation here & many others too.”
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Back to London…
#Starmer opened the #summit of #Europe’s leaders in London w/ #Macron & #Zelensky seated beside him. “We’re gathered here today because this is a once in a generation moment for the #security of Europe, & we all need to step up,” Starmer told the assembled leaders. “Getting a good outcome for #Ukraine is not just a matter of right & wrong, it’s vital for the security of every nation here & many others too.”
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Israel to continue occupation of West Bank, their defence minister said. And also occupying Lebanon. And also occupying Syria. And maybe also Gaza (except because intense fighting is 100% guaranteed in Gaza, in opposite to every other mentioned place). And all of this, with the blessing of the US government, regardless of whom is sitting in the White House, be it from party A or from party B.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #WestBank #Lebanon #Syria #Occupation #Israel #Expansionism #Imperalism #USA
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Israel to continue occupation of West Bank, their defence minister said. And also occupying Lebanon. And also occupying Syria. And maybe also Gaza (except because intense fighting is 100% guaranteed in Gaza, in opposite to every other mentioned place). And all of this, with the blessing of the US government, regardless of whom is sitting in the White House, be it from party A or from party B.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #WestBank #Lebanon #Syria #Occupation #Israel #Expansionism #Imperalism #USA
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Trump erroneously accuses #ukraine of starting the three year long #RussiaUkraineWar and implies they should have simply given up their #Sovereignty ceded their land and submitted to Putin - who is apparently Trump’s overlord (he’s got to have something big on Trump, and why wouldn’t he - as former director of the KGB?). Ukraine is screwed, excluded along with Europe in so-called peace talks. It’s hard not to notice that Trump, and his newly installed Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, are #RussianAssets - given Gabbard’s history of parroting Russian propaganda. Get ready for more US withdrawals from agencies, programs, and alliances that currently counter Russian agression and expansionism. After all, Trump wants to annex or invade #Canada #greenland and #Panama. Why wouldn’t he approve of Putin’s land grab? #UkraineRussiaWar #ForeignPolicy #Expansionism #TrumpIsARussianAsset #TraitorTrump #war #Europe
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Trump erroneously accuses #ukraine of starting the three year long #RussiaUkraineWar and implies they should have simply given up their #Sovereignty ceded their land and submitted to Putin - who is apparently Trump’s overlord (he’s got to have something big on Trump, and why wouldn’t he - as former director of the KGB?). Ukraine is screwed, excluded along with Europe in so-called peace talks. It’s hard not to notice that Trump, and his newly installed Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, are #RussianAssets - given Gabbard’s history of parroting Russian propaganda. Get ready for more US withdrawals from agencies, programs, and alliances that currently counter Russian agression and expansionism. After all, Trump wants to annex or invade #Canada #greenland and #Panama. Why wouldn’t he approve of Putin’s land grab? #UkraineRussiaWar #ForeignPolicy #Expansionism #TrumpIsARussianAsset #TraitorTrump #war #Europe
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"Go home, Yankee! Yankee, go home!
Keep your deals and go back home.
Say "goodbye" to your grand schemes,
Don't tread on our hopes and dreams.
As our anthem proudly sings,
Canada stands!" -
Filed under: Things you wouldn’t have cared about before Trump.
#greenland #expansionism #canada #usa
https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/world-qs57rganz/-/a-3L2W1JnCQyamqkqL7dol-Q%3Aa%3A729020400-%2F0 -
Filed under: Things you wouldn’t have cared about before Trump.
#greenland #expansionism #canada #usa
https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/world-qs57rganz/-/a-3L2W1JnCQyamqkqL7dol-Q%3Aa%3A729020400-%2F0 -
It’s on the President of Panama’s official government website:
https://www.presidencia.gob.pa/publicacion/comunicado
#Trump #Panama #PanamaCanal #expansionism #FactCheck #TrumpLies
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It’s on the President of Panama’s official government website:
https://www.presidencia.gob.pa/publicacion/comunicado
#Trump #Panama #PanamaCanal #expansionism #FactCheck #TrumpLies
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Mulino also responded to #Trump’s assertion that the canal was given to #Panama.
“The Canal was not a concession from anyone. It was the result of generational struggles that culminated in 1999, as a result of the Torrijos-Carter treaty &, since then until now, for 25 years, without interruption, we have managed & expanded it responsibly to serve the world & its commerce, including the United States,” Mulino said in his statement.
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Mulino also responded to #Trump’s assertion that the canal was given to #Panama.
“The Canal was not a concession from anyone. It was the result of generational struggles that culminated in 1999, as a result of the Torrijos-Carter treaty &, since then until now, for 25 years, without interruption, we have managed & expanded it responsibly to serve the world & its commerce, including the United States,” Mulino said in his statement.
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In his speech, #Trump also suggested that “#China is operating the #PanamaCanal.”
Mulino rejected that, saying, “There is no presence of any nation in the world that interferes with our administration.”
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In his speech, #Trump also suggested that “#China is operating the #PanamaCanal.”
Mulino rejected that, saying, “There is no presence of any nation in the world that interferes with our administration.”
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President Mulino responded in a Spanish-language statement saying, “I must reject in its entirety the words expressed by President Donald #Trump regarding #Panama & its Canal.”
“The Canal is & will continue to be Panama’s & its administration will continue to be under Panamanian control with respect to its permanent neutrality,” the statement reads.
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President Mulino responded in a Spanish-language statement saying, “I must reject in its entirety the words expressed by President Donald #Trump regarding #Panama & its Canal.”
“The Canal is & will continue to be Panama’s & its administration will continue to be under Panamanian control with respect to its permanent neutrality,” the statement reads.
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@anneapplebaum2000 #trump is just following #putin’s lead in #expansionism and #colonialism
