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The US has kind of lost track of the reason for having colonies. What exact benefit does it receive for maintaining control and responsibility for a low income
by fiatmoney 11y ago
The US has kind of lost track of the reason for having colonies. What exact benefit does it receive for maintaining control and responsibility for a low income quasi-country with its own separate ethnicity, language, and culture? Protecting the Panama Canal from the Kaiser's dreadnoughts?
- gkop 11y agoObligatory link to the great CGP Grey video on US territories: http://youtu.be/ASSOQDQvVLU http://youtu.be/ASSOQDQvVLU
- saganus 11y agoWhat about protecting it from Chinese interests? Not really sure if this is plausible, but maybe if you let enough Chinese capital into Panama, they can defacto control it, vs having the US impose restrictions on Chinese capital investments in strategic property or whatever.
- fiatmoney 11y agoWith a very few exceptions, the US has been pretty adept at keeping foreign influence out of its hemisphere since the 1800s. It also begs the question of why the US would care.
- saganus 11y agoRight... and Panama is not PR.... not sure how I thought of Panama when talking about Puerto Rico... I guess that's what the downvote is for. :(