Trump and top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, characterized Saturday’s assault on Venezuela and abduction of the country’s president as a warning shot in the direction of Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American nations.
During a Saturday press conference, Trump openly invoked the Monroe Doctrine — an assertion of U.S. dominance of the Western Hemisphere — and said his campaign of aggression against Venezuela represented the “Donroe Doctrine” in action.
In his unwieldy remarks, Trump called out Colombian President Gustavo Petro by name, accusing him without evidence of “making cocaine and sending it to the United States.”
Monroe Doctrine?? The hugely problematic gunboat diplomacy doctrine that was outright imperialistic??
In the defense of the Monroe doctrine, it was moreso focused on keeping the old world powers out of the Western hemisphere.
I mean that’s a completely different geopolitical context than today. It was focused on regional hegemony, so it’s weird that Trump in America, as the global leader, wants to shrink to regional.