Showing posts with label Panama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panama. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Are Trump's threats against Greenland and Panama aggression or negotiation?

Trump's account omits some key facts. 

After the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Europe persuaded Ukraine to give up Soviet-era nuclear weapons in exchange for a strong security commitment from Washington, Moscow and London. In 2008, the U.S. convinced NATO to state its willingness eventually to welcome Georgia and Ukraine as members. Later that year, Russia invaded Georgia and the Bush administration and Europe did nothing. 

Six years later, after Barack Obama promised Putin he "would be more flexible" after his 2012 reelection, Russia seized Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Neither the Obama administration nor the first Trump administration did anything to persuade Putin to reverse his illegal land grabs. The U.N. Charter's prohibition against "the threat or use of force" means that war is the responsibility of the aggressor, not the victim as Trump's comments would suggest…

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5082972-trump-greenland-panama-russia-china/


 

Monday, March 5, 2018

Ethics experts say their 'fear has been realized' as Trump faces one of his most consequential conflicts of interest yet - Business Insider:

The week-long dispute between the Trump Organization and the owner of a Panama hotel could have consequences for President Donald Trump. Ethics experts say this is the kind of situation they've always warned about. Now that situation has become a reality. Ethics experts fear that the week-long standoff at a Panamanian hotel between ownership and the Trump Organization just presented one of the most consequential conflicts of interest yet for President Donald Trump. ....
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-organization-panama-hotel-conflict-2018-3

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Ivanka's signature real estate deals were disasters linked to drug cartels and money laundering -- ThinkProgress.org

Before her father became president, Ivanka Trump tied herself more closely to two of her father's international projects than any others. One, in Panama, was the current president's first international foray -- a building, according to the developer, that Donald Trump wanted to be Ivanka's "baby." ....
https://thinkprogress.org/ivankas-real-estate-deals-corruption-33f65f778d0f/







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