Daniel Immerwahr
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Well, we're now calling it the Donro Doctrine.
The Donro Doctrine.
That is what he's seeking.
Which is, by the way, you know, Trump has some talent for nicknames and things like this.
This is a bad one.
Well, I actually love it because the Monroe Doctrine, as he is interpreting it, we can get to the various incarnations of it.
But the version of it that he likes is an imperial version.
And then he's actually sort of colonized the name itself.
You know, so it's just perfect.
It's so on brand.
He's landed a plane on that.
Yeah, exactly right.
So the Monroe Doctrine, I mean, we talk about it as if it was some great and binding thing.
The Monroe Doctrine was a series of non-sequential paragraphs that Monroe delivered in his annual message in 1823 that was non-binding.
It didn't have any kind of enforcement mechanism and it wasn't particularly different from the kinds of things that U.S.
statesmen had been saying for a long time.
But the idea of it was to