I have written about the antiquated document, the Monroe Doctrine, and Donny cannot even get that piece of history right even when he tries to justify it’s use.

Was it a flob up or is he trying to claim ownership of the region?

In his triumphant post-operation remarks, President Donald Trump openly invoked what he termed a “Donroe Doctrine”—a vision of US hemispheric dominance backed by military power. For Europe, this moment marks not only a rupture in norms surrounding sovereignty, but also a warning sign of how America may behave across multiple theatres.

If you still do not think that Donny is trying to build an empire then some of his comments recently should erase any doubt.

The State Department on Monday echoed President Trump’s rhetoric on U.S. authority in the Western Hemisphere.

“This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened,” the department wrote on the social platform X.

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The Trump administration has cited stopping the flow of drugs, gangs and sanctioned oil from Venezuela in justifying the removal of Maduro. Trump said Saturday that the U.S. will “run” the South American country until a proper transition can occur, with American oil companies taking control of the nation’s petroleum reserves, the largest in the world.

“We’re in the business of having countries around us that are viable and successful and where the oil is allowed to freely come out, because that’s good, it gets the prices down,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday.

Also Sunday, the president threatened Colombian President Gustavo Petro and warned that Mexico “has to get their act together” regarding the flow of drugs.

Trump also said that Cuba’s communist regime, heavily dependent on Venezuelan oil imports, is “ready to fall.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said Saturday that the Cuban government should “be concerned” in the wake of Maduro’s capture.

“It’s very similar [to Venezuela] in the sense that we want to help the people in Cuba, but we want to also help the people who are forced out of Cuba and living in this country,” said Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants.

(thehill.com)

The US has always used the ‘people’ as an excuse for military action…..they are doing whats best for the people….my happy ass!

Donny is on the move to establish an American Empire with his ‘Donroe Doctrine’….

In discussing the US seizure of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, President Trump has resurrected talk about the Monroe Doctrine—the idea espoused by the nation’s fifth president in 1823 that Europe should butt out of Latin America. Trump, however, is pushing a more aggressive version, which he referred to as the “Donroe doctrine” while speaking to reporters on Sunday.

• “The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal,” said Trump. “But we’ve superseded it by a lot, a real lot.”
• As an analysis at the New York Times explains, his administration did, in fact, beef up the doctrine in the National Security Strategy document released two months ago. It speaks of a need to “restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere,” and to prevent “non-Hemispheric competitors” such as China from staking a claim to assets such as oil. “In other words, we will assert and enforce a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine,” the document states.

• At the Wall Street Journal, Greg Ip wonders about the precedent involved. “In re-establishing the Western Hemisphere as the U.S.’s sole sphere of influence, is Trump OK with China doing the same in Taiwan and, more broadly, Asia; or Russia in Ukraine and its other neighbors? Officially, no; yet Trump’s tone toward both is notably friendlier now than in his first term.”
• When Monroe voiced his doctrine, it was mostly over a worry about European powers interfering in the affairs of their former colonies in Latin America. President Teddy Roosevelt later expanded it to justify military interventions, notes the Hill. Trump is further expanding it by asserting that he “can claim resources (oil) that, in his view, America cannot live without,” according to the Times analysis.
• Trump’s actions mark quite a turnaround from the Obama administration. Back in 2013, then-Secretary of State John Kerry declared, “The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over,” as this Wall Street Journal story from the time reports. The story includes this context: “By giving more leeway to big regional players such as Colombia and Brazil, and not getting too worked up about the anti-American antics of strongmen in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador, the administration has tried to put U.S.-Latin American relations on a new footing.”

Yeah, like Chile in the 70s, Iraq in the 00s, Iran in the 50s….none of that was ‘for the people’…..matters not who is president the US will act with force to preserve the assets in countries.

None of this sounds like an act of empire?

Drugs will continue to flow…..that is for certain.

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“lego ergo scribo”