Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen planned to send goods between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts quickly and cheaply. This is the main reason the United States decided to build the Panama Canal.
Americans knew they needed this to quickly move ships from east to west. They will indeed control power if they did this since they'd control the oceans. The Canal was a geopolitical strategy designed to make the United States the most powerful country on the planet.
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