Marco Rubio Got More In Panama Sunday Than Grammy Paparazzi Looking at Kanye's Wife

<![CDATA[After four years of the Biden administration, suffering one humiliating defeat on the international stage after another, you might think it's going to take some time to get used to winning again. It turns out, it's been rather easy to adapt to success, and each victory leaves you with an appetite wanting more. A week and a half ago, President Donald Trump sent a couple of military cargo planes full of Colombian nationals here illegally to repatriate them in the South American country. Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to allow the planes to land. Trump immediately dropped the hammer - 25% tariffs on all goods coming from Colombia into the United States. 'Oh, what'll that do to coffee prices?', lefties and Trump haters united in chorus...for 37 minutes. Petro caved, fully and completely. Offered to let our planes land, volunteered to send his plane to come get the rest and fly them home...on his gas. Trump haters called that bullying. Looks like a big W to me. This past weekend was Latin American Groundhog Day for American foreign policy. What began as an ominous confrontation building between the U.S. and Panama turned into another win for Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump foreign policy agenda. After a tour of the Panama Canal, Secretary Rubio held one-on-one talks with Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino. If you follow the reporting from resistance media, you would have no idea that any progress at all was made. Headlines Sunday night ranged from "Rubio Says Panama Must Reduce Chinese Influence Around the Canal Or Face Possible U.S. Action" in the Associated Press, to "US Ratchets Up Panama Canal Rhetoric During Rubio Visit" in Politico. Again, only the ominous stuff, tensions increasing, Trump picking a fight-themed stories. Not one, save Matthew Foldi in the Washington Reporter, and then actually picked up on the actual news from the weekend. Panama caved.      No sooner had Rubio left Panama and headed to his next stop, El Salvador, than President Mulino held a press conference to make a statement. He was immediately informing China that Panama will not renew its Belt and Road deal with the CCP, and will actively take steps to pull out of the existing deal before its expiration date in two years. What does that mean? China will very soon no longer control both ends of the Canal. That's exactly what Trump wanted. ]]>