Manuel Noriega
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Yeah, exactly.
And so anyway.
Yeah, exactly.
I think, yeah, levees, I think.
Oh, no, maybe not.
But I know what you're talking, where they shift.
No.
No, it's something like 7% to 10% of the world's trade passes through the Panama Canal.
Something like that.
You know what I mean?
Crazy money.
Yeah.
It's a lot of money, and that's also part of the reason why Trump was so vocal about it, because when the Chinese owned the ports on either side, they essentially could control what passes through to a certain degree.
And in the Canal Treaty of 1977, which passed the canal into Panamanians' hands,
One of the sort of stipulations was that if there was ever a threat to, like, the United States and threat to the Panama Canal, the U.S.
could come back and take ownership and put U.S.
troops back on Panama land.
Totally, yeah.
Yeah, and the argument was that, like, the Chinese are a threat.
You know what I mean?