Panamanian opposition politicians have accused the US of launching a “camouflaged invasion” of the country, amid simmering discontent over the government’s handling of the diplomatic crisis.
After a three-day visit by the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump appeared to confirm that US military personnel had been deployed to the Central American country on Thursday, telling reporters: “We’ve moved a lot of troops to Panama.”
Hegseth said that the US would increase its military presence at three former US bases in the country to “secure the Panama canal from Chinese influence”.
“This is a camouflaged invasion,” said Ricardo Lombana, the leader of the opposition Other Way Movement. “An invasion without firing a shot, but with a cudgel and threats.”
Every country on Earth should be expelling all US bases on their soil. They’ve proven they’ll throw everyone and everything under the bus at the slightest convenience to themselves.
You don’t negotiate with terrorists, and you don’t trust conmen.
Most of the world is still more afraid of China and Russia
These fucking clowns are gonna actually start world War 3.
Who would have thought that Trump was being literal here.
Except it’s him doing it, not Zelenskyy
Right. I was probably being a bit clunky.
Imagine a label under Trump that says “World War 3”
Pretty sure he was looking in a mirror behind Zelenskyy
I fucking hate this new Cold War arc…
Calling them the opposition party is a weird way to phrase it. Makes them sound illegitimate, i guess that’s the point tho.
You’re not familiar with parliamentary systems with more than two parties are you?
Nope, I’m from the U.S., more than a two party system is heresy here.
The opposition party is the party that is formed as a coalition against the dominant one.
In America’s case, the democrats would be considered the opposition party (lol)
In Westminster parliamentary systems the opposition is the largest party or coalition that is not the governing majority party/coalition. There can be other parties or individual members in the parliament that are not part of the government or opposition, in Australia they are known collectively as the crossbench (referring to how they are seated on the benches between the government and opposition benches in the parliament chamber).
So you’re saying we don’t have one. That’s nice
