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To: Rusty0604

Do we enforce the Monroe Doctrine anymore?


7 posted on 03/24/2019 3:16:21 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Psalm 73
Do we enforce the Monroe Doctrine anymore?

Thank Obama for non-enforcement (per a lookup):

President Barack Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry told the Organization of American States in November 2013 that the "era of the Monroe Doctrine is over."

16 posted on 03/24/2019 3:24:11 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Psalm 73

No we don’t. The other half of the Monroe Doctrine was that we don’t interfere in European affairs. People forget that part of the doctrine.


72 posted on 03/24/2019 5:08:20 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Psalm 73
Do we enforce the Monroe Doctrine anymore?

That's what I was thinking. One thing that was constant over the last two centuries, is that the US will not tolerate troops from a potential major-power adversary in the Americas.

Allowing a major adversary to establish a military beachhead where they can just drive to the US, creates a potential major threat. It was one of the premises of the original version of the movie "Red Dawn", where a communist coup in Mexico allows the Russians to use it as a staging area for invasion.

96 posted on 03/25/2019 5:09:06 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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