Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "shouldn't have allowed" war in his country to happen.

A cargo ship sails through the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City on Sept. 9, 2024. The Panama Canal is more than a piece of infrastructure; it’s a global asset that symbolizes international cooperation, writes Orlando J. Pérez.(

McKinley, who was inaugurated in 1897, presided over the negotiations that created the Panama Canal. He loved tariffs, both as a way to fund the government and to protect domestic industry. And he courted, and was courted by, robber barons of the Gilded Age.

Donald Trump argues that the US needs Greenland for national security, while a retaking of the Panama Canal is necessary to curb the overcharging of American ships and combat Chinese influence.

Trump wants to take Greenland from Denmark, make Canada the 51st state and retake the Panama Canal, threats reflecting his view that might makes right.

Donald Trump's aggressive stance on the Panama Canal risks setting a dangerous precedent. It could offer China a blueprint to justify its territorial ambitions. Critics say Trump's stance could embolden Beijing's expansionism in Taiwan and the South China Sea,

He recently threatened to take back the Panama Canal, which he said was over-charging ... Russia President Vladimir Putin should stay out of Ukraine, or that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

They added that, as we have seen in Ukraine, "Putin is serious about ... of Greenland to the United States, and that Panama return the canal to Washington. "Denmark should give it up," he said ...

Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States would take back the Panama Canal as he delivered an inauguration speech in which he invoked the 19th century expansionist doctrine of "Manifest Destiny" in laying out plans for space exploration.

The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Panama and four other countries in Central America and the Caribbean starting late next week during his first overseas trip as Washington's top diplomat,