[Alberta's Child]

You have had EU Nazi bureaucrats stating, on the record, that their geopolitical goal is the dissolution of Russia into a bunch of harmless quasi-states.

If the U.S. can have a Monroe Doctrine; then surely Russia can have a Putin Doctrine.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

You have had EU Nazi bureaucrats stating, on the record, that their geopolitical goal is the dissolution of Russia into a bunch of harmless quasi-states.

A few bureaucrats with zero military power opening their mouths doesn't give a country the right to invade a neighbor who didn't even make that statement. Not to mention that those statements weren't made until after Russia proved itself to be a military aggressor by invading that neighbor.

And the Monroe doctrine has been dead for a very long time.

[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

[If the U.S. can have a Monroe Doctrine; then surely Russia can have a Putin Doctrine.]

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The Monroe Doctrine asserted, more or less, that the US would ensure the Americas remained friendly - at gunpoint, if necessary. It’s been a dead letter, for a very long time. We let Castro take over Cuba, Ortega rule Nicaragua. Today, numerous anti-American leaders rule Latin America, including Brazil’s Lula. Prior to Milei, Kirchner was a beacon of anti-Americanism in Latin America.

But much of this skirts the central issue. The Monroe Doctrine was not some statement of universal principle. It was an assertion of national interest, the elevation of American interest over anyone else’s. Even if the Monroe Doctrine weren’t dead, why would we recognize anyone else’s claim to a similar sphere? We certainly did not recognize Germany or Japan’s respective Monroe Doctrines (aka WW2), which individually covered areas smaller than Russia today.