return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoTrump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US territorywww.thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square111linkfedilinkarrow-up1454arrow-down17
arrow-up1447arrow-down1external-linkTrump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US territorywww.thehill.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square111linkfedilink
minus-squaremoldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoThere’s historical precedent. Isn’t this what the British did with the Suez Canal? And the US with the Panama Canal?
minus-squareJensSpahnpasta@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoNope, the british gov buying shares in a french company or the US constructing the panama canal is not precedent to a mad president occupying international waterways on the other side of the globe
There’s historical precedent.
Isn’t this what the British did with the Suez Canal? And the US with the Panama Canal?
Nope, the british gov buying shares in a french company or the US constructing the panama canal is not precedent to a mad president occupying international waterways on the other side of the globe