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		vorg on Aug 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Story of Japan's 'Lost Decades' was a Hoax Africa and South America are only long term, strategic investments to whoever controls oceanic chokepoints like the Panama canal, straits of Malacca, and other entries to the South China Sea, all of which are under US control since 1945.

quahada on Aug 15, 2013 [–]

Not if one of those investments is bypassing the chokepoint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_Canal

greedo on Aug 16, 2013 | [–]

I think we could interdict a canal through Nicaragua just as easily as we could the Panama Canal.

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