Comment on Panama's president says there will be no negotiation about ownership of canal
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I mean, fair is fair.
If I build a treehouse in the backyard of a building I’m renting (with landlord approval ofc), then I move out, I don’t take the tree house with me, US law states moreorless that anything that is not portable, when installed on a piece of land, become that land owners property.
The US built a canal on Panama’s property. Under agreement from both parties, sounds like the same should apply here. The amount of money spent and who spent it doesn’t really matter imo.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Even that doesn’t really matter. We signed a treaty in 1977 to affirm their full control as of 1999.
thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 2 months ago
The US will honor treaties when they are politically or economically advantageous to the leadership at the time. Everything else is up for negotiation. At the end of the barrel of a gun.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
it wasn’t meant to be the US property forever anyway, part of the initial agreement was a “in perpetuity” ownership with restrictions maxing out at 99 years. We are long past that point anyway as the ownership upper term was hit in 2013
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, well, treaties…
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Treaty yeah!