Posted on 04/18/2025 5:10:02 PM PDT by george76
China’s activities in the Western Hemisphere pose a direct challenge to US interests and regional security
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Donald Trump understands that modern threats – China’s predatory mercantilism and its massive military buildup, including the ability to destroy our reconnaissance satellites in orbit – requires an urgent reinvigoration of the 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine.
The Monroe Doctrine, America’s fundamental national security imperative, seeks to exclude outside powers from the Western Hemisphere. It is key to protecting the U.S. and our neighbors from China’s malicious designs.
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Trump understands that Greenland and Panama aren’t merely the key in any potential conflict with China, they are key to deterring China from conflict in the first place.
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During WWII and the Cold War, prior to the advent of near-global real-time overhead satellite coverage, America maintained forward bases in a string from Hawaii to Alaska to Canada to Greenland to Puerto Rico to Panama. These bases hosted naval assets, electronic listening posts, early warning radars and airfields for patrol aircraft.
The forward presence not only protected the American heartland, but it also served to guard the sea lanes needed for trade and to support our allies in Europe and Asia.
Trump recognizes the shifting geopolitical landscape, with China’s rise posing a new challenge to U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere – and a secure homeland.
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Beyond Greenland and Panama, China’s activities in the Western Hemisphere, such as its Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure projects – some serving as replenishment ports for its navy – pose a direct challenge to U.S. interests and regional security. Along with the malevolent presence of Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, and hostile regimes such as Maduro’s Venezuela, Trump’s team has a big task to clean up decades of neglect in the Western Hemisphere.
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Two words from the left’s favorite handbook:
Stare Decisis
Realpolitik would say that China has certain rights vis a vis Tawain inlight of US Monroe doctrine. A conundrum indeed.
No it isn’t, it has nothing to do with communist China wanting to conquer Taiwan.
The United States with a Monroe Doctrine can surely accept Russia with a “Putin Doctrine” — right?
The oft missed part of the Monroe Doctrine is that we would stay out of European affairs. Hard to imagine Monroe would have agreed that areas inside the then Ukraine area of the Czar would be a critical US interest.
I'm reminded of the parents of a child they brought into the world and raised for 20 or so years wants to lead their own life -- but the parents can't let go. They still want to dictate and control.
That's the US. For about the last 100 or so years, our country (the parents) has contributed and dictated to the rest of the world "how things are." All this while developing countries (the child) have grown and sprouted their wings and want to go their own way without threats and intimidation from what was the ruling empire (parents).
"The Times They Are A-Changin'
In 2021, I played golf with an old school buddy (Macomb County, MI) whose family has owned a place in Goderich, Ontario for 40 years now. He was really disappointed that they were not allowed to cross the border to use it during COVID. He also stated that he was “glad it happened” when the subject of J6 came up while waiting to tee off. I think all that time in Canada has really softened his brain. Either that or it’s because he has a wife and three daughters.
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