Rich Lowry
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first heard Dec 2024
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It was an act of war to topple the head of state there.
But in terms of what we've seen,
and other interventions the U.S.
has undertaken in the last 20 years, this is so minimalistic, right?
This would be the equivalent of a snatch and grab against Saddam Hussein, then having a Ba'athist general take power, and then hoping you can influence him to do what you want.
So there are all sorts of ways this can go sideways.
There are all sorts of risks.
But the way he's done it so far is calculated to minimize those risks, I think.
Yeah, so the Monroe Doctrine is the idea that we have supremacy in the hemisphere, right?
So the strategic purpose of it is to
exclude European nations because they represent a significant threat to us, potentially geopolitically.
And then what happens after its initial enunciation, you get the Roosevelt corollary and the Lodge corollary, which basically kind of flip it in its head in some respects.
So instead of excluding others from intervening, we assume a right to intervene when there's disorder such that it's a threat to us or it might
tempt someone else to come in and intervene.
Yeah.
So the Trump corollary is basically just the Roosevelt corollary or the Lodge corollary.
It's not a new corollary, but he likes putting his names on things.
So he has to have his name on a corollary.
But this is a traditional American approach he's taken.
Now, we've gotten away from it the last 30 years.
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