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If I was Panama I would blow it up before they even got there
If don't have plans already to do that then they should be making them now.
Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't that fuck over a lot more places than the US?
Its simple asset denial.
In point of fact, one of the core elements of Taiwan’s strategic defense plans is “we will melt our chip foundries to slag with a shitload of thermite and explosives if the CCP invades and it looks like they’ll win”. It’s frankly a great tactic to get other developed nations to give a shit about your sovereignty: underwrite large portions of everyone’s economy.
This is the way.
A lot of shipping has actually been going around the long way. Ships are simply large enough that they get more profit from that than from being small enough to fit in the Panama Canal.
It's too important a source of income for them to do that.
They would lose the income if the USA invaded anyways making them rebuild it would be a good fuck you
Not, like, preemptively. Just have a plan, like how Switzerland is rigged to blow.
That would be far more dangerous to billions of people than you imagine. Because the Pacific and Atlantic oceans are not at the same sea level there. Hence the need for the stages of flooding and draining to go from one to the other.
Dangerous to billions? I don't think one ocean empties into the other like pulling a plug in the bathtub.
It absolutely would cause a level change. The locks are 85 feet up. So if the lake remains connected and the locks are all opened it would drain out. See? Level change. :)
But yeah definitely doesn't work like the other guy thinks it does.
It's 40 miles long and it could easily be made impassable in sections
Ok, that's certainly valid. I thought you meant blow the whole thing.