I'm sure others may be thinking the same thing that I am : if Spain is, and from my own experience always was, amenable to transferring ports : and the USA wished to expand : why did it not simply ask? Dunno, call me naive, but that might have been a lot cheaper than dumping over 1.5billion into influence in ports that the USA says it never wanted to force an agreement to transfer the ones it does.
must have missed that business strategies class : I didnt miss the one that said acquiring assets that cost more to maintain than they produce in increased income was not very clever : Currently, the USA must spend all its total port tax income just to service the daily influence bleed on the ports that it, apparently, doesnt even want. Here's a thought : if Spain do nothing, the USA will slowly bankrupt itself holding on to what it doesnt want, but must keep until Spain accepts it can have what it does want and somehtign which it could have had, just for the asking.
I have long admired Mr Rothschild's business acumen, and they way he has leveraged the banking business into a viable playing model, providing the foundations for both a vibrant nation and guild : but in this case, its more Enron than JP Morgan....