Posted on 01/26/2025 12:32:59 PM PST by DFG
The Monroe Doctrine, established in 1823, was originally drafted to protect U.S. interests against European powers that could try to recolonize South American countries gaining independence from Spain and to ward off Russian moves into the Pacific Northwest.
Czarist Russia bloodlessly desisted from attempts to colonize the West Coast and Alaska. However, U.S. hemispheric dominance has proved more difficult to enforce in Latin America, involving the U.S. in local conflicts that have led to past military interventions.
President Obama’s secretary of state, John Kerry, declared before the Organization of American States in 2013 that “the Monroe Doctrine is over.” But if President Donald Trump is serious about plans to take over Greenland and recover the Panama Canal, he will need to revive it.
Greenland may not present that much of a problem. Admiral James Stavridis, a former head of NATO, said that Trump’s proposal “is not such a crazy idea.” Greenland’s current semi-colonial ruler, Denmark, a small NATO ally, would have little choice but to settle for a solution granting independence to the 57,000 Inuit inhabitants who may be well disposed to some kind of incorporation with the U.S.
They gave a warm welcome to Donald Trump Jr. when he visited the vast Arctic island last week following his father’s offer to buy it. One Inuit native interviewed on television appeared to reflect local sentiment when he told a TV reporter that “Denmark is very small. It makes much more sense for us to join a major power like the United States.” Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, said this week that his government was looking for ways to work more closely with President Trump.
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All of President Trumps talk about Greenland, Canada and Panama is trolling China and their attempt to quietly assume ownership over strategic locations.
The dementia carcass was compromised to turn a blind eye. Castro’s welp in Canada was all in on their globalist plans.
Pres Jill aka Lady Mac Biden was owned by China.
That evil Adulteress help promote it .
She is a true DEI
crazed socialist .
Watch her rant in 2020
election cycle videos.
she sounded Madame Mao .
I think corrupt ‘Dr’ Jill was incensed at the end being thrown under the bus by that demonic Obama creature and his evil henchmen when in her mind she was just following orders keeping that mindless carcass from wandering off set.
Yes
but to settle for a solution granting independence to the 57,000 Inuit inhabitants who may be well disposed to some kind of incorporation with the U.S.
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55,000 as of Jan 1st. A poll of the 55,000 found that 30,000 would like to join the US, and 20,000 did not.
Congressman James Comer suspects FJB/Not a Dr. Jill got a big payola to drop from the presidential race.
Get PDJT’s nominees in office. Get MAGA rolling.
Take revenge in due time. Make them sweat.
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I remember when Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race to save Hillary even though he won California, he then got a $700K lake house payoff for it. Meanwhile Seth Rich cared more about Bernies win being stolen than Bernie did and paid for it with his life. Bernie plans to run again.
Yeah, the rats had “super-delegates” in their 2016 phony primary to screw Sanders out of the nomination.
Super-delegates were state politicians fearful of committing suicide if they didn’t vote for the Hildebeast.
Since he gets a dacha every time he runs for prez, Sanders is cool with the outcome.
I suspect Kash Patel will upset the Seth Rich narrative.
Kerry quit being an american long before having no authority to vlaim anything about the monroe doctrine.
this article is written for an ignorant audience.
there are a number of misleading or false statements in it.
public law 5 which gave cristobal/balboa lease to HW predates belt and road by over 20 years. the article indirectly suggests there was a much closer temporal space beween the two events.
the us invaded panama for a number of reasons, but noriega had been dealing illegal stuff for decades and it was fine with everyone. the school of the americas issue and the death of his main US sponsor is why the indictments went forward, and matters slowly rolled into an invasion over the nexxt 3 years.
““In peace time this amount of influence allows China to have negational impact on Panamanian orientation to U.S. companies. In war, their acquired familiarity with the environment and Canal inner workings would allow them to shut it down or render it inoperable,” “
idiocy. the canal is spectacularly vulnerable, but the article relies of people having no clue what reality is on the ground.
” ..upset the Seth Rich narrative”
I hope you’re correct.
So what’s the real story? Is China exerting influence on Panama? Are they getting better rates on shipping than we are ?
When I was shipping goods through the canal, we were being charged just under $500k per vessel
rates are universal as I understand it.
china exerts influence everywhere. they are rich and ruthless. at the same time they were funding 1996 clinton campaign, they got the govt of panama to do the port lease, and a number of other things (substantial illegal immigrant shipping deal. allegedly at the time to get to panama chinese had to pay (or be in debt to pay) 15k. was 65k to get to US. presumably they had their own collection mechanism. no one I knew talked about it.
but the ports aren’t the canal, and the canal is, in modern age terms, quite indefensible.
china strategy has seemed to be economic, with a military side-component/option. they have bought port leases all over the americas.
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