The Panama Canal, one of the world’s most vital maritime chokepoints, has once again become the epicentre of geopolitical turbulence. In an interview with StratNews Global , Nilanthan Niruthan, Executive Director of the Center for Law and Security Studies in Colombo, warned that President Donald Trump’s aggressive posture in Latin America—marked by U.S. naval strikes on Venezuelan vessels—signals the return of old-style American militarism cloaked in new justifications.

“The Panama Canal is indispensable to the United States,” said Niruthan. About 6% of global trade and roughly $300 billion worth of cargo pass through it every year, with nearly three-quarters of that traffic linked to American ports. Though control of the canal was officially handed to Panama in 1999, a 1977 treaty stil

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