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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal with absolutely no benefit to the USA. This waterway was a key national security asset. And because of Carter...our ability to shift key equipment and naval assets rapidly from one ocean to the other has been greatly diminished. That hurts our national security priorities.
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Not really, the size of current US Navy ships outgrew the Canal decades ago. It was useful during early stages of the navy when ships had smaller displacements but whenever sizes and dimensions started to grow toward their current sizes the waterway quickly became insufficient iirc Its one of the reasons why the US now sustains sperate Atlantic and Pacific fleets, iirc
I'll never slam on someone that's won a Nobel Peace Prize. You won't accomplish 1/10th of what he's accomplished in your lifetime.