Episode 60 Hour of Decision: The Panama Canal and Greenland: Is Trump Going Wild?

In this episode Lew discusses the history of the Panama Canal. He specifically calls out the interest of the Trilateral Commission, who elected Jimmy Carter president in 1976, in seeing the U.S. lose control of the vital waterway that connects the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. As a congressional staffer, Lew toured the canal with U.S. and Panamanian officials right after the giveaway, and met with the Chinese-controlled managers of the ports at either end of the canal. The Chinese have penetrated deep into the power structure of Panama and exert almost total control over the canal which is vital to the U.S. economy and to our defense posture in the region.Next Lew brings in strategic analyst J.R. Nyquist to discuss the tremendous vulnerability we face from both Russia and China in the Artic, and why U.S. control of Greenland would be a step in the right direction to protect America from an attack coming from the polar region or from subs approaching our eastern seaboard from Russia.