For a minute there, the title fooled me into thinking the actual vessels were bypassing panama via rail..
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There have been systems like that to replace locks in the past. Not for the whole of the country of course but essentially wide rails that lift a shift up a hill along some rails.
The ships will be pulled overland Fitzcarraldo style.
Oof, so we've got a drought in Panama, and terrorists in the suez? Spicy
And a rapidly destabilizing situation in the SCS.
And contention over the Essequibo.
Edit: by terrorism, you must mean the unilateral military action taken on by the US and UK without UNSC authorization, right?
I guess they got taken off the official terrorist designation in 2021, but they're trying to redesignate them, so idk, semantics.
unilateral [...] US and UK
How is it unilateral if two countries are coordinated?
(Yes, I'm being pedantic. My apologies.)
Also, it's not the job of the UNSC to "authorize" military action of individual nations. UNSC authorization of force (Article 42) refers to sending UN peacekeeping forces, like in the Korean war. This hasn't happened many times.
Article 51 allows member states to use force to defend themselves. US and UK military ships were being attacked.
International law also allows a country to protect its own territorial waters and enforce sanctions through them. Sovereignty supercedes the right to self-defence: if a US warship sails into Chinese territorial waters and gets beat down, international law sides with China.
What was the location of the US and UK ships? What are the treaties governing access to the Red Sea?
Are you sure that counts as territorial waters for Yemen?
C'mon Gibraltar, do your thing!