Manuel Noriega

So the US didn't really like him.

The CIA didn't really want him in power.

But so a lot of the communication went directly to Noriega and not to the dictator.

And Noriega claims, I read his memoirs and I watched a bunch of interviews and Noriega claims that Bush was like pro-Panama.

So Bush, essentially Noriega was saying that Bush wanted Panama to have independence and to own the Panama Canal where,

At the time, the United States owned the Panama Canal, the country's, like, greatest resource, right?

It just generated so much money that, you know, why would the U.S.

want to give that up?

Yeah, that doesn't seem... But they did.

Jimmy Carter gave it up in 1977, right?

And now, obviously, Trump is... It's in the news a lot.

He wants to take it back because China bought up the ports and now BlackRock owned the ports.

It's very complex, and, like, I don't understand the economics behind it fully.

And there's a lot of merit to that.

Like Danny and I spoke about that too, about how the, it's sort of like, you know, I use the bad word.

I said infection, but it's like, it really is like, it's called the Belt and Road Initiative.

They're trying to buy everything up.

Yeah, it's legit.

People can say what they want, but it's a legit worry, and the Panama Canal is just so important.

Totally.